[subterfuge]

This article is NO exaggeration. In fact it may be understating the severity of the Smaze.

Pics my uncle brought back of Bejing are unbelievable. You can barely see across the street!

[cogitator]

Pics my uncle brought back of Bejing are unbelievable. You can barely see across the street!

On my one visit to China, I was in Guangzhou (used to be better known as Canton). We stayed in a hotel about a half-mile downriver from a large bridge over the Pearl River. The first day we couldn't see the bridge -- we didn't even know it was there. That night a cold front came through and cleared the air. We looked out the windows the next morning and said "Where'd that come from?"

[Antoninus]

Pics my uncle brought back of Bejing are unbelievable. You can barely see across the street!

Sounds like Pittsburgh in the 1940s--they kept the street lights on all day long.