When I was in Denver on Monday, giving a speech, someone asked me about the smoke from the fires. I explained it was pretty bad. But when I flew back on Tuesday morning as we came over the crest of the Sierra, the smoke was so bad in the valley that it looked as it sometimes does in the winter when there is a fog bank against the mountains. There was this thick white cloud that extended from the coastal mountains to the Sierra. The picture does not convey the situation at all. (The Photo is from Wundeground.com)
As we descended into the stuff we could not see the ground until we were on second approach. The sun has been muted for the last several days - that has kept temperatures down but destroyed sinuses. I was at a Rivercats game last night and the lights were on before the game. By the end, because of the smoke I was very thirsty.
The Governor created some controversy yesterday by asking people not to buy fireworks. In several counties people can buy "safe and sane" fireworks to help celebrate the Fourth. Several people were quoted in the paper about how terrible this was for their charity. They said the fireworks sale was their major fund-raiser. And that is true. But I thought the Governor was right - with one exception. He could well have added don't buy fireworks this year but make a contribution to the charity that you would have bought from.
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