Apocalyptic Air Quality

For the last week and change, the greater San Francisco Bay Area has been socked in with smoke from the "Camp Fire" (a series of fires in Northern California that destroyed the town of Paradise and has claimed dozens of lives).

The air outside is considered some of the worst in the world, beating out New Delhi and Beijing.

Fucking hell.

It feels to me like I have a small child sitting on my chest every time I go outside. The sun looks like the Eye of Sauron staring balefully down. The moon looks wrong. I can't see mountains, or in some cases, buildings from certain vantage points.

This is the new normal.

And we're lucky compared to the poor people whose homes were destroyed. Fucking hell.