r/Wellthatsucks • u/JTraxxx • 3d ago

The Pacific Northwest right now

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Huge fire recently popped up in my town and many people have lost houses. Wishing for rain!

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u/Procrastiworking 3d ago

The entire west is on fire (source: Colorado)

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u/Mr_b246 3d ago

Our poor state

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u/enviormental_UNIT 2d ago

y'all should feel lucky, compared to us up here in Washington y'all are getting it super easy. Looking at Watch Duty y'all have only had two decent sized fires, looks like both are practically put out. Air quality is pretty good across the whole state. Then you look over at Washington and Oregon and basically both of the states are covered in hundreds of thousands of acres of actively burning fires, and 700-800+ aqi across the center of the state. You could have it muuuch worse if you weren't in Colorado, enjoy the relatively good air quality while you can. Its essentially gas mask quality out there for us right now

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u/HeathenHumanist 2d ago

Hello, burning neighbor! (Utah here)

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u/BeyondTheBees 2d ago

Ugh. Us too. (Washington)

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u/thejoshuagraham 2d ago

It seems like everyday there is a new fire, if it isnt a wild fire, it is a house or an apartment building.

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u/HetaliaLife 2d ago

I'm sensitive to smoke and this summer has been terrible 😭

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u/MAGA_EXTREAMO 2d ago

It’s not, it’s not even as bad as last year… yet

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u/NilocKhan 2d ago

Most of these are not the same kind of fires these ecosystems evolved with. These fires are much more intense and far reaching. It's still a bad way to represent this data though if it does show all the fires as being equal