Friday, November 16, 2018

The Smoke Gets In Our Eyes

Image result for SF Bay Area in smoke Camp Fire THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY

*I haven't experienced anything like this before; you haven't either --I maybe moments after the '89 Loma Prietta quake that the Bay Area skies were this bad but there wasn't the acrid smoke and nausea that has plagued us for the better part of the week.

*This is serious stuff. I haven't seen any of the reporters up near the firestorm or in Chico wearing masks; did they run out of them?

*Big Game now postponed until December 1; my question: will the smoke be gone by then? Don't assume anything (excuse me, I just let out a mega-cough).


*The other day when I reported that some TV station asked women of child-bearing age to refrain from going to Paradise to cover the fire. Now some of you know what I was referring to. Many of you jumped the gun and thought it was some feminist rights issue but you were wrong.

*Holly Quan is non-stop 24/7 KCBS in Chico. Where's Jeffrey Schaub? Is he taking a sabbatical --OK, that makes sense.

*KCBS stopped running the Paradise (again, what sad irony) fire promos which is good because they haven't even had one funeral yet. I'm a proponent of common sense --I guess KCBS marketing didn't get the memo.

*This is how bad the smoke is--a KGO cameraman who normally smokes 3 packs a day of cigarettes is down to a single pack, that's not a joke.

*You know it's bad when people in China are watching us and the face masks although I hear this is a day at the beach compared to Shanghai --wow, I could only imagine.

*This terrible fire in Paradise? Puts things like fake, expensive, crappy pillows and 800JUNK ads in perspective.

I'm tired, coughed out, hungry and cash-limited, time to retreat./

Talk later.

12 comments:

  1. If anyone has ever spent $100 on a pillow, I would like to sell them MyRightSock for only $50. If you also buy MyLeftSock I will throw in free shipping. This is a limited time offer, so call now!

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    1. i would like to take all of mike lindel's narcissistic commmericals and pillows and bury them with darin the dui guy who gives "free" legal advice

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  2. KRON dorks say get an umbrella for your ''black friday'' shopping because of rain---like theyre concerned with your rain shopping rather that permanent health damage from smoke--shopping matters to KRON-not health. money advertising ----Fail.

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  3. The life of a real female reporter is no more or less valuable than the life of a real male reporter. Jeffrey Schaub, Jenna Lane and Holly Quan have all been doing real reporting from this hideous and tragic fire. This is as it should be.

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  4. I'm hearing that TOH KCBS female voice on KPIX.

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  5. I've seen at least one reporter with a mask around his neck. I think they're wearing them, but remove them when on camera.

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  6. Bill Wattenberg was warning people about the dead trees in the national and state parks 25 years ago.

    Ashes to ashes...

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    1. The Camp Fire is not a "forest fire". Bill had a business leasing firefighting heavy machinery . He was speaking specifically about Lake Tahoe, which is a forest environment.

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    2. So what.

      The national and state forest are full of dead trees. It's not just Lake Tahoe. It's called dead fuel...and it's everywhere...even at the Camp Fire.

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  7. > Now some of you know what I was referring to.
    > Many of you jumped the gun and thought it was
    > some feminist rights issue but you were wrong.

    Wasn't "jumping the gun." Was a direct response to unambiguously-worded statement that apparently didn't mean what you said it meant. If you have a "special meaning" that only "some" of us can know then don't post it on a public forum without context expecting anything different than what you got. Or learn to use your native tongue better.

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  8. > I hear this is a day at the beach compared to Shanghai
    > --wow, I could only imagine.

    Don't know where you hear that. The air quality measurements are currently worse than even China and every station has been saying so.

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  9. KCBS is still running those promos. They (and other radio and TV stations) have ALWAYS done this after (and during) a huge story. Always.

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