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Canadian Fires
Jun 8, 2023 11:37:45   #
fetzler Loc: North West PA
 
There is nothing new about Canadian fires causing air quality issues. On May 19, 1780, folks in New England thought they were facing the end of time. Total darkness in the daytime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPQz9FpdOrw

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Jun 8, 2023 12:03:00   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
fetzler wrote:
There is nothing new about Canadian fires causing air quality issues. On May 19, 1780, folks in New England thought they were facing the end of time. Total darkness in the daytime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPQz9FpdOrw



What's new is a generation that can't handle adversity...

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Jun 8, 2023 12:13:05   #
tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio
 
O'Canada

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Jun 8, 2023 12:34:15   #
dave.speeking Loc: Brooklyn OH
 
fetzler wrote:
There is nothing new about Canadian fires causing air quality issues. On May 19, 1780, folks in New England thought they were facing the end of time. Total darkness in the daytime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPQz9FpdOrw


1950, June to August Chinchaga fire burned about 3,500,000 acres.



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Jun 8, 2023 14:09:51   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
tradio wrote:
O'Canada

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Jun 9, 2023 08:28:53   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
fetzler wrote:
There is nothing new about Canadian fires causing air quality issues. On May 19, 1780, folks in New England thought they were facing the end of time. Total darkness in the daytime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPQz9FpdOrw


Ah, yes. I vaguely remember those 1780 fires. Volcanic eruptions also brought about strange ideas in past centuries.

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Jun 9, 2023 10:44:05   #
Schwabo Loc: Florida
 
fetzler wrote:
There is nothing new about Canadian fires causing air quality issues. On May 19, 1780, folks in New England thought they were facing the end of time. Total darkness in the daytime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPQz9FpdOrw


That was also global warming, because to many cars on the road.

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