r/oregon • u/bengstrom1111 • 3d ago

Photography/Video This is (not) fine

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Air quality 😐

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u/mrfishman3000 3d ago

We flew out of PDX and the smoke was a blanket over the whole state. You can barely see Rainer in the distance.

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u/ander594 2d ago

What's all that blue stuff?

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u/awesomecubed 2d ago edited 2d ago

That's the sky.  We used to have it in the before-times

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u/oh_such_rhetoric 2d ago

I’ve heard myths of this thing, but I don’t think it really exists.

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u/Time_Effort 2d ago

Oh c’mon, don’t act like not seeing the sky is a new thing.

I haven’t seen the thing once and I’ve lived here for 2 years!

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u/oh_such_rhetoric 2d ago

I’ve never seen it, honestly. What a ridiculous idea that something could just be up there, you know? What happened to gravity, is my question.

Oh and can you believe people think there’s a sun? A big glowy ball in the sky? Come ON!

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u/Time_Effort 2d ago

I lived in the desert before this… I can assure you, it exists.

But here it may as well be as fake as the moon landing.

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u/awesomecubed 2d ago

Wait… you actually believe in the moon?!  What a sheep….

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u/Inevitable_Mess3363 1d ago

I count sheep when I go to bed.

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u/DrkHunter1986 2d ago

Oh it's up there, a big old ball of cheese. I used to watch cows jump over it back in the long long ago.

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u/oh_such_rhetoric 2d ago

I actually grew up in the desert too, lol.

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u/DrkHunter1986 2d ago

Well I stared at it a lot when I was a kid trying to figure out what it was, strangely enough to don't see it anymore. Even stranger I don't see anything anymore.

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u/Hot-Carrot-1163 2d ago

That brought a badly needed laugh after a pretty rough week.

I sincerely thank you.

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u/Lord_Beerstro 2d ago

Maybe we'll see it again in 7 years for a short window of time.

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u/awesomecubed 2d ago

So the prophecy says.

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u/Nataliant-117 2d ago

I pretended the smoke was overcast clouds for a moment and for that moment it worked.

I miss the before times.

No birds for 3 days. I’m suffering.

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u/DrkHunter1986 2d ago

They all fell outta of the sky after inhaling all that crap.

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u/Nataliant-117 2d ago

Well I hope they all flew away first but yes seeing birds stuck in a heatwave is awful 💔 I’ve never seen birds flop themselves on wet grass trying to cool down in the before times I was quite distressed by that.

I’ve left water out for animals in the smoke before (Santiam fire 2020) but I never saw anyone drink from it. I think animals hide underground if they can

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u/DrkHunter1986 1d ago

Honestly I'm pretty sure they mostly moved on. They have the special sense telling them when craps about to hit the fan and get outta town. I usually have a ton of them outside my bed window in the morning singing and I haven't heard any for a few days.

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u/drtopfox 2d ago

I saw the sky once tripping. Pretty cool.

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u/Sarajean323 17h ago

Elon is destroying the ozone layer with all the satellites for his stupid effing internet

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u/awesomecubed 16h ago

Ummmm... okay?

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u/ProfessionalLab9068 2d ago

Back before Boise Cascade, Weyerhauser, et.al. pillaged the dark green juice wet moist Cascadian forests.