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Raziehh t1_it1ggvh wrote

Pretty sure this article headline could be changed to the state of Washington and it’d still be accurate.

Vancouver and it’s currently 180 on the AQI. This rain can’t come soon enough.

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SquizzOC t1_it2dyai wrote

We hit 356 in Camas… it’s miserable.

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jjmac t1_it2p2po wrote

A purple sensor is reading 370 a few blocks away from my house in Woodinville

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CivilTax00100100 t1_it31ezt wrote

Is that the kind of level that affects your health? Maybe not now.. but later on?

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chadenright t1_it3atsr wrote

-Everything- affects your health long-term. Living in vancouver right now...but it's way better than Bakersfield, California where basically everyone who stays there develops lung and nasal problems. Bakersfield has this kind of fungus in the soil which isn't usually a problem....until dust storms kick it into the air, people breathe it in and develop something called valley fever. Which was killing enough people that the nearby prison had to shut down; inmates kept dropping dead.

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Kevin_Wolf t1_it3ixsk wrote

>Which was killing enough people that the nearby prison had to shut down; inmates kept dropping dead.

Which "nearby prison" are you talking about? As far as I can see, all of Kern County's prisons that have been open for years are still open. Kern has 5 or 6 state prisons. If one prison had inmates dropping from valley fever badly enough that they had to close, then they all would.

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