Oh my, I'm dealing with smoke storm in my city T.T It's giving me horrible allergy. A lot of fire on the mountains and stuff, and since I'm kinda in the valley, I get all the after effect of it. I hope people are ok D:

@SnakeWeaver: Hey there. I grew up in Florida, so I've been through my far share of Hurricanes, both big and small. It sucks, but I think that it gives people a lot of perspective, and there is a sense of community from it. (It's dumb that humans have to go through something horrible to feel that way, but what are you gonna do?)
I'm sorry that the fires are affecting you. They are affecting me too, but since my home isn't going to burn down I feel like a jerk for saying it. I live in the Bay Area and the smoke has been awful. It's been bothering me all week long. Itchy eyes and throat, worried about my animals because they are so small, etc

@SnakeWeaver: Yes I am. That's very close to where I live. The counties the fires are in are some of the counties in the bay area. I live in South Bay. The smoke is bad and will be here for days. Where are you? (Also I misread your post at first and thought that you didn't know about the fires in nothern cali. I was about to be like where have you been lol)

Oh jeez, that's really close. I'm in the South Bay. Smoke was horrible yesterday, and my neighborhood's full of elderly people, so I hope they'll be alright...

@SnakeWeaver: Yeah it's big and serious. The smoke since yesterday has been blowing south, so we are getting all of the smoke and it's bad.

@Totalanimefan: Are you wearing a dust mask? If you aren't, your lungs will be in serious trouble of getting damaged, or even worse! Caked with ash inside.
@Mica: How does a house survive a typhoon? o-o

@SnakeWeaver: If that's not enough to scare people idk what is. I do wear a mask when I'm outside.

@Mica: Oh my o-o Well, I'm glad you're in an okay area at least?

@totalanimefan: You would be surprised, there are a lot of people here not wearing dust masks.

@mica: Ahh, well different areas of different countries have different issues, ne? For some reason in the united states, california has it's own 'fire season'. It's less naturally caused though and more like... we have a lot of forested areas, but a lot of our water goes to people and farmers don't have a proper limitation put on the amount of water they can use. As a result, our forests get drier. California is supposed to be generally foggy in the morning, the evidence in this is through the amount of kinds of redwoods we have. A redwood is a kind of tree that gets most of its water from... fog and mist. Also, a lot of our weeds and grasses have trouble due to non native worms. The non native worms don't work the soil the way it needs to be since they are not from the native region, this causes it to create soil conditions for non native plants. This could normally be okay, but a lot of california gets long streaks of no rain, so our native plants are built to handle that. Non native plants and weeds are not built to handle that, making it easier for them to get drier, meaning more flammable. The worm issue is caused by people who enjoy fishing. Many buy bait, use a lot of it, but than release the remaining bait after. A lot of worm bait sold isn't native to their areas, and people usually think -any worm is good for any area-, but that's not how it works at all. Sorry, I talked a bit too long on the topic of how california became a matchstick^^;;;

@Mica: the current fire state of california could have totally been prevented, but the issue is on how. How do we stop fishers from releasing non native worms? How do we boost native worm species? A lot of people don't use the internet, some don't even use televisions.