Posted on 06/07/2023 1:28:50 PM PDT by Morgana
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has urged millions of residents to remain indoors after hazardous smoke from Canadian wildfires bellowed across the border.
Huge swaths of the nation from the Northeast to the Great Lakes are braced for several more days of smog, while Canadian officials continue to grapple with over 400 wildfires.
A thick, nicotine-yellow haze shrouded the famous Big Apple skyline Wednesday as the city became the most polluted in the world, with its Air Quality Index score soaring past 200, which is deemed 'very unhealthy'.
More than a dozen US states and over 100 million people are under air quality alerts, prompting many to start wearing pandemic-era masks.
Health experts warned that breathing the fog can be as damaging as smoking 14 cigarettes a day. Nanoparticles from the smog are so small they can penetrate the lungs and bloodstream, with side effects also including irritation to the eyes and throat as well as breathing problems.
A sheet of smoke from the wildfires first descended on New York on Tuesday before thickening throughout the afternoon, leaving those in Manhattan unable to see the New Jersey skyline across the Hudson River.
As well as sending New Yorkers inside, air quality alerts were also introduced in states including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois, Virginia and the Carolinas, according to the National Weather Service.
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Now Trudeau is exporting his toxicity.
Oh-oh! This is nano-crisis stuff.
Quick, mail in ballots.
Heck, 50 years ago we knew that living in NYC was equal to smoking a pack a day. Surprised they even noticed.
I was out chain-sawing today in CT.
Now I will go smoke a cigar.
The fear mongers can go stuff it.
Pick one or the other. They can't have both.
You forgot grill a steak and drink bourbon. The Ron Swanson behavioral index.
New Yorkers should stay indoors to avoid the new ‘black’ toxin that runs rampant in the city.
I’m in upstate NY next to Lake Ontario and haven’t noticed any increase in smog as of yet.
Yes it is and it proves how idiotic the Left’s climate change crap is, especially in the UK. While visiting there last summer we were inundated with propaganda about how evil gas engines and appliances are- the people of the UK were encouraged to shut off carbon-eating heaters in the winter to help the climate and to avoid “air-con” because it was a source of pollution! Well guess what- the air is still polluted. People on the Eastern seaboard of the US did not and have not gone out and mass-polluted the air but we are paying the price for what has happened in Canada. Canada is polluting our air through no fault of our own.
Yankees and Phillies games Smokedout. I was down at the game in Philly.
One more reason to get the heck out of that place!!!
Maybe we will get lucky and the Canadian smoke will wipe out the gangs of New York.
Maybe we will get lucky and the Canadian smoke will wipe out the gangs of New York.
Now I can say I was at Smokedout Game.
I think you might prefer pyroclastic flow for that one.
All manner of crime, civil corruption, high taxes, punishing victims, filth and filthy people everywhere, and now this. Enjoy your shit-sandwich New Yawkers.
At least the Chicoms now know where to set off a dirty bomb to get maximum effect on the Northeast of America.
Suspicious that these conflagrations all seem to have started at or around the same time- lightening is more random? Pyromaniacs let loose in Canada? Time will tell...
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