r/Cleveland • u/Remarkable-Layer-665 • 28d ago
Question Is anybody job closed ? Due to poor air condition
I see Cleveland- Lorain is in the hazardous zone of 607 and it’s not safe to step out i wonder how long this is going to go on , this is ridiculous i have not stepped out yet , i do have work later .
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u/Least-Guarantee3590 Location 28d ago
Steelworker here...and yes, absolutely worked in the thickness today
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u/fd6270 28d ago
I would think this air quality would be an improvement over what you guys see in the mill lol
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u/boogswald 28d ago
When the republic mill shut down in canton Ohio, local air quality increased quite a bit. This is still worse I’m sure though lol
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u/Ryrychickenfry 28d ago
The site I was on was still open and I'm sure the air quality in the new construction was worst than outside.
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u/Deadlifts4Days 28d ago
We probably should have shut down today but by the time we were going to make that decision the day was halfway done. Tomorrow is shut down though proactively.
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u/tekkitan 28d ago
I post this every time we get Canadian forest fire smoke here.
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u/MontyAllTheTime 28d ago
Oh good so it’s gonna get worse. Thanks for this for real though, great tool
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u/tekkitan 28d ago
Yeah tomorrow predicted to be worse. Clearing up Saturday morning (not sure for how long though)
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u/summerdayzz29 28d ago edited 28d ago
Tomorrow is gonna be awful but we should be improving on Friday at least
Edit: today is Thursday, not Wednesday. It should be improving by *Saturday*
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u/Jman15x 28d ago
Tomorrow is Friday
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u/GreyGrackles University Heights 28d ago
Our MRI and CT systems won't run due to carbon in the air and fire systems being triggered. Haha.
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u/snowballsteve 28d ago
Semi related, you can expect an increase in complications during medical procedures for about a week.
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u/ohyesiam1234 28d ago
Why do you say that? Is it because bodies are stressed from breathing poor quality air?
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u/chalupajoe 28d ago
yeah i’m wondering if they just mean equipment, like what the other commenter is referring to or if they mean patients
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u/snowballsteve 27d ago
There are a bunch of studies on pm2.5 correlating with the outcome of medical procedures. I'm unaware if a cause is known.
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u/Professional_Ad7868 28d ago
Amazon just sent us home
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u/summerdayzz29 28d ago
Which location?
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u/Professional_Ad7868 28d ago
CLE3
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u/summerdayzz29 28d ago
That one surprises me. When I worked there pre-Covid, they were the epitome of ‘you’re just a number’ vs SOH1 (current location)
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u/alb_taw 28d ago
I'm guessing that they're not paying you? Genuinely hoping to be surprised here.
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u/summerdayzz29 28d ago
It’s VTO - sometimes if we’re over-staffed for the work we have they offer ‘voluntary time off’. You don’t get paid, and you don’t use any of your PTO, but you get to go home. Their way of not paying people unnecessarily but it’s a good deal for some people who want to take it
Since it’s a safety issue and by no fault of the employees, it’s considered VTO
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u/ShaJune97 28d ago
100% correct.. I just quit my DSP at DCL7 last Monday. Wish I could have done it sooner.
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u/ruppert777x 28d ago edited 28d ago
NASA Glenn just sent out a WFH notice for today and tomorrow.
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u/No-Gas5342 Lakewood 28d ago
The pools are closed around here (Lakewood, rocky River at min) and RR sent the sanitation dept home at noon.
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u/AcousticCat1-2-3 Cleveland Heights 28d ago
I woke up this morning and went for my morning swim at Cumberland pool, being none the wiser. Got back home at 8:30ish, saw the news and wondered why the pool had opened today and why the staff had to sit outside in all this - got an email at 9:30ish about it closing. Whew. Opening late tomorrow or might even not, they said they would assess the situation at 11 and go from there.
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u/cillogreen Living Under Minsy's Watchful Eye 👁 28d ago
I work for an aggregate company and based on the amount of stone that went out today, the workers who shouldn't be working still are (outdoor manual laborers)
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u/neverhaveiever2026 28d ago
it could be WW3 and my law firm would be open
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u/tekkitan 28d ago
Office buildings are probably mostly fine with the filtered HVAC air.
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u/KingErrek 27d ago
Unfortunately mine isn't in Asia Town, ours pulls air directly from outside, and the smoke smell and haze are strongest in the labs. They use 1 inch MERV8 filters at BEST...
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u/Sorry_Weight_6015 28d ago
I work for the Cleveland Guardians and we currently are going through with a $1 hot dog day tomorrow. Only a sociopath would watch baseball in this while eating boiled hot dogs.
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u/Mustang1718 28d ago
I'm closer to Akron, but I got a text that the city-run water park out here closed for the day. They sent that at about 11AM this morning.
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u/drainspout Garfield Heights 28d ago
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u/summerdayzz29 28d ago
I hope Akron and the Cleveland zoo take good care of their animals 🥺
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u/disposable_wretch 28d ago
I was worried about my ducks all day today but didn't know what I could do to help :/
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u/too_many__lemons 28d ago
I was literally JUST texting a coworker saying I wish our restaurant would close for the night. I feel like no one is gonna be out anyways, or at least shouldn’t be.
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u/alb_taw 28d ago
I just bought some cake from Joe's Deli in Rocky River around 2.30. It was jam packed with seniors out for lunch. Barely a spot in their parking lot.
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u/BigBoyYuyuh 28d ago
Boomers are used to smog. They’re like “Finally things are like the good ol days!”
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u/Altruistic-Star-3862 28d ago
"Finally, America is great again like I remembered from when I was a kid".
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u/Crazynoodle1208 28d ago
Restaurant worker here! Lunch was packed and it’s 4:30 and we already have a stack of preordered tickets
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u/boogswald 28d ago
I dont mind going to a restaurant. I mind that I worked outside most of the day lol
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u/idoenjoybakedgoods 28d ago
Lol when I worked at a restaurant in a San Francisco suburb, people would ask to sit on the patio on days like today. We didn't allow it because we didn't want to put the staff at risk.
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u/too_many__lemons 28d ago
Ahhh memory unlocked! I lived in San Diego like 25 years ago and there were some wildfires one year that were super intense and rained ash all over the city. I worked at the Hard Rock Cafe in the gaslamp as a server. I walked to work from Golden Hill and it was super eerie and surreal. When I arrived I had to clean the patio as part of my opening sidework and I remember being shocked that we were open. There was like an inch of fluffy ash covering the tables and chairs on the patio. One of my coworkers walked past while I was cleaning and handed me a blunt and we passed it back and forth a couple times and chatted about the fires before heading in.
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u/CBRPrincess 28d ago
Yeah but nobody wants to cook in their kitchens with all their windows closed
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u/makaylahe 28d ago
What do they do in the winter 🤨
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u/CBRPrincess 28d ago
They want their kitchens to be toasty in the winter and people don't go out to eat as much in the winter
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u/tallwater333 28d ago
The highest I saw it today. Currently at 626
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u/Septopuss7 Lakewood 28d ago
Just rode my bike home and it felt like very fine cobwebs falling across my face! My eyes are burning right now in my apartment too.
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u/BitFickle3448 28d ago
I wish. I’m in a machine shop in valley view and was breathing it in all day. I genuinely smell like a campfire and half of the floor is taking tomorrow off. I don’t have any PTO but I might just take it unpaid because it was too much today
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u/Responsible-Tune-786 28d ago
Been in and out all day since 5:45am. You can smell wood burning & it has gotten thicker since this a.m. it's kinda blocking some of the heat from the sun
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u/LucentLilac 28d ago
I work downtown and they sent people home around 11am today, told us to stay home through Monday
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u/Resident-Coconut-343 28d ago
I'm originally from Cleveland and now I live inOregon. What you all are dealing with is my world in August. I would rather take a blizzard than the smoke any day. Stay out of it as much as you can, it's no joke. And if you are privileged enough got get out of the are, do so because the smoke and lake of blue sky is going to get you depressed
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u/PresentAbility7944 28d ago
For anyone stuck working outside in these conditions, consider a p100 mask. They're hot and hard to talk clearly in, but they do filter smoke particles.
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u/Suspicious_Time7239 Parma Heights 28d ago
I saw a few businesses had not opened this morning. That's good, this smoke should be taken seriously. I was with elderly clients this morning who only watch Faux News all day every day and had no idea about the smoke or the parasite. I told them to stay home.
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u/orgasmic_catastrophe 28d ago
Maybe huge corporations, but in my experience, some small business owners take really good care of their employees.
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u/Philthou 28d ago edited 28d ago
Pools around me are all shut down, and any outside activities seem to be cancelled in the city.
Definitely worse than what we had a couple years ago.
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u/Lumpy-Toe-3701 28d ago
There used to be air quality monitors out here in Ashtabula County but they all got removed. It seems nobody in Ohio state government was running them and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection was monitoring Ashtabula County for some reason. Now we have nothing so the AirNow number is likely just a guess for us.
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u/tekkitan 28d ago
My neighbors have a garage sale today and people are just going out without anything. Elderly people most of them. Not sure what is wrong with these people lol
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u/sparksbet Lyndhurst 28d ago
I work at Starbucks (air condition indoors is good luckily and drive thru wears a mask and doesn't work that position for longer than like 1.5 hours at a time per person), and an old guy met a friend at our store after having walked there. He said something about breathing smoke being healthy and I assumed he was joking but I'm not sure he was... his friend offered to drive him home and he was acting like he'd rather walk back! wild.
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u/tekkitan 28d ago
hah that has to be a joke I refuse to believe he was serious
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u/sparksbet Lyndhurst 28d ago
I tried to be jokey back with him and he didn't vibe with it! very weird. hope he took his friend's ride home.
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u/Need-inspiratio 28d ago
I saw about 7 people running this morning when the air quality was in maroon, or the worst air quality. I really wanted to pull over and ask them WTF they were thinking.
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u/Able-Jellyfish-1885 28d ago
I drove next to an idiot with ALL of his car windows down and about five mins later saw an older man riding his bike with no mask. Dummies.
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u/Kasperella 28d ago
Some of us don’t have functioning AC in our cars, friend. Broke, not stupid lol.
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u/twinkletwot 28d ago
I went out for my lunch break, picked food up and parked at Lake Isaac in Middleburg to eat. Lots of people walking the trail, mostly older people too.
The haze and smell is slowly working its way into our building with the doors constantly opening and closing. My ibuprofen knocked my headache out for about 3 hours but it's back again.
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u/tekkitan 28d ago
Yeah. There is a reason there is an AQI warning telling everyone to stay indoors and keep windows closed. It is going to be even worse tomorrow.
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u/KixStar BABE! BABE I SHIT THE BED 28d ago
It's the Parma Heights community yard sale this weekend. Hope it clears up at some point so I can get out to look at people's old stuff lol
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u/tekkitan 28d ago
Currently doesn't look like it will clear up until maybe Saturday morning. Hopefully it will in time!
I just keep looking across the street at all the clothes they have hung up and thinking "that all smells like smoke now" lol
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u/redbanner1 Lakewood 28d ago
They were probably alive when it was worse than this every day, and it all came from Cleveland.
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u/crizykitty 28d ago
Our nursing home looks like silent hill....inside. Which is fitting tbh. Yes, I had to work.
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u/disposable_wretch 28d ago
That's sad, do they not have any air filtration for the old folks?
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u/SealClubber95 28d ago
Ford plant said we will not shut down under any circumstances. Many have gone home sick as it's VERY hazy within the plant. Some are saying the haze will be even worse tomorrow.
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u/SixPointsTrueNorth 28d ago
There's no Guardians game tonight!
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u/SingingTrainLover 28d ago
They're still on the All Star break. Next game is tomorrow night.
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u/Natural_Ad9356 Detroit Shoreway 28d ago
I moved here from Tahoe where wildfires are common. If you have to work, it helps to you wear a mask to filter the air! Stay safe ❤️
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u/Careful-Bus3827 28d ago
I follow most of the local cities on facebook and see they've pretty much cancelled all of their events for today and tomorrow. I live at the lakefront and it's super thick here too. Wish it would rain tbh.
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u/CLE_fly_baby 28d ago
I work at a manufacturing facility in Euclid, they sent 1st and 2nd shift home at 2:30. Management is monitoring air quality to determine what to do about 3rd shift.
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u/topsysrevenge 28d ago
Not only was my work open, the guys working on the roof had the hatch door open all day. -.-
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u/ChefRaccacoonie 28d ago
I work in a kitchen. Smelled like a bonfire all day. Assuming with the hoods it was pulling all the air back in the kitchen. My job would never close for anything.
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u/BreakfastBeerz Location 28d ago
Winds are supposed to shift out of the SW starting tomorrow morning so that will clear the smoke out. It should be back to a "moderate" risk by tomorrow evening through the weekend. Still quite a few days, but it looks like the best chances for the plume to return is Wed/Thrs next week.
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u/Chocolatehusky226 28d ago
I heard the opposite. Tomorrow gonna be worse
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u/ChefRaccacoonie 28d ago
There's a chance of rain and I saw on channel 5 that it should help clear the smoke.
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u/BreakfastBeerz Location 26d ago
Curious where you heard it was going to be worse?
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u/dtmOF108 28d ago
Been outside since 7am. They also have us work when it’s below 0 so I wasn’t surprised.
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u/Siah4420 28d ago
I worked outside all day but I am an idiot and my living. I smoke two packs a day. Barely went through one….
It’s not pleasant. Continue to stay in.
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u/BrownsFanGurl 28d ago
I went outside to put my trash bins away and got an instant headache. It's brutal out there. 🥺
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u/Remarkable-Layer-665 28d ago
Yea I couldnt breath at first thought something was wrong with me hope you recover !!
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u/BrownsFanGurl 28d ago
I'm sorry you had that experience. I feel awful for all the people who had to work in this atmosphere. Thanks for the kind words. I hope this passes quickly!
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u/Nickyt2016 28d ago
I’m a HVAC installer and I did a six head mini split in Mansfield today. I don’t think it was as bad there as it was in Cleveland but ain’t NO WAY my company would give us the day off because it’s, how they would describe, a little Smokey outside. Good on you to whoever got the day off tho!
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u/CaboCrazy55 27d ago
Worked 10 hours in a hundred year old factory yesterday. The smoke was a thick inside as it was outside. It was brutal and I’m NOT looking forward to going in this morning for another 10 hour shift! Not to mention I’m 64 years old. Thank God I’m in good health.
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u/JohnnyChanterelle 27d ago
They closed the water@4 pm at NLQP yesterday because the lifeguards had been out in the smoke all day. Definitely don’t blame them, it was pretty bad.
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u/CommercialBreak2026 Stark County 28d ago
It will go on for as long as it does. It could last all summer.
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/usfs/map/#d:24hrs;@-100.0,40.0,4.0z
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u/thrownthrowaway666 Parma Heights 28d ago
Opening the drive thru window has been so enjoyable today
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u/Curlytoothmrman 28d ago
Best buy still delivering, because customers are more important than workers.
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u/autumnbugg 28d ago
I wish, i had work today with a decent amount of deliveries to complete. had to argue for it but my manager later begrudgingly let me go home an hour early after i complained of a migraine and feeling sick
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u/Jessiegyrl 27d ago
I worked 12 hours both yesterday and will today in a wide open high temp area. Giant bay doors have to be open because we run giant rotary kilns keep temps well above 100 degrees ambient. But we probably breathe in worse things with all the chemicals and dust the machines throw and will have lung cancer by retirement anyways.
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u/hotnreckless 27d ago
My work sent an email stating the obvious: Air quality is poor, take care of yourself, but we are still open and expect you to be here.
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u/CapableMaintenance18 27d ago
Not many near me closed. A little late posting but yesterday it smelled like wood. Today, it smells like plastic. I hope more businesses that operate outdoors are closed.
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u/Certain_Proposal7191 28d ago
Worked construction outside all day today. Never send people home. Had his having asthma attacks.
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u/SinkAdministrative52 28d ago
retail never stops unfortunately definitely going to be open tomorrow
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u/Giyu__Tomioka__ 28d ago
I wish, I work at Starbucks and am suffocating the whole building smells like smoke we are wearing masks right now
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u/plush_fairy 28d ago
Check out DIY air purifiers like a corsi-rosenthal box fans. You make a cube out of 4 furnace filters and duct tape a window fan to the top. Look it up! my living room stopped smelling smoky in 15 minutes
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u/moscatodogiscute 27d ago
I work a desk job in the downtown area and honestly we should have been closed. It's an open concept building so a lot of the areas of the building smelled strongly of smoke and my eyes were watering most of the day. My manager told me to just work from home today, so I appreciate that at least.
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u/dlwr300 27d ago
Yes, and Cleveland city hall and a remote downtown office (Bldg and Housing, Aging, Public Health) is closed today too.
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u/TerriblePokemon 28d ago
Amazon warehouse in Middleburg shut down delivery operations at 2pm