Smog, limit your driving

[Perfect Drift]

What to do when they post that sign on the freeways? Go fishing and say to heck with the smog control or stay home and hope the wind kicks it outa here tomorrow.
I've stayed home all week waiting and waiting and I can only rerig my rods so many times and change the line only once.

[Pete]

Whatever you do ... DO NOT mow the lawn! :grin:

[Jim]

:shocked: :shocked: :shocked: :shocked: :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:

Wow! I am just a rednecked country boy....do they actually have a sign like that???????

I would say, time to move, make less money, live a simpler life......

Jim
:hoboy:

[wetaline]

Well while you were waiting at home today for the smog to clear we bonked 2 steelies and a nooki... thanks for following the sign - it made it easier to find a spot on the river (not really) -

Did you seriously not go fishing this week because of the smog alert? that seems crazy to me .....although i guess i boatpooled as we had 3 guys in the boat :tongue:

[brshooter]

Pete,
I'll take your advise. I figure running my sportjet today was my contribution to the smog. No need to fire up the snapper as well. I am telling the wife that I can't cut the grass tonight because YOU said so.

Should have stayed home and cut the grass. Still pretty slow out there. :mad:

[Artwo]

Pete,
I had my wife going for awhile the other night with the "I can't mow the lawn" statement.....................until she finally realised we have an electrical lawn mower :wink:

JK

[GutZ]

Guess I will just stay home and fire up the BBQ :wink:

[CATCH AND EAT]

If you smoke stop! If you need to pass gas, don't!! If you cook dinner don't burn it!!! Ride you bike to work but don't breath (CO2). Don't mow the lawn. Don't BBQ!!!! Don't die either....peee uuuuuuhhha.

[STGRule]

You really ought to take it seriously. If your going fishing, fill the boat with as many people as the tow vehicle will hold. If you can't, don't go. Why does everyone think that their exhaust is not the problem? It is a real problem. Thanks Kaus for thinking about it AND doing something about it. And yes, your non-electric lawnmower is a bonus to the pollution on alert days. If you want to do "extra" things on these days, don't breathe the oxygen and leave it for the rest of us who do care. graemlins/icon_argue.gif

[sinker]

The smog levels are pretty amazing if you look back 15 years ago.
Spent a few days down in the Columbia Gorge last month. Got up to a couple good vantage points thinking I could get some cool pics. Wrong, air was too hazy.

Went to Mt Rainier last weekend. Would have seen some cool views of the valleys and mountains heading away from the mountain if it weren't for all the smog.

[Jennie@ifish]

I remember flying into L.A. about 25 years ago and being shocked about the smog. "It's like this all the time?" Yuck!

Yesterday I drove into Portland and got the same feeling... De Ja Vu.

My Portland? Smoggy?

Very sad.
:depressed:

J

[ 07-25-2002, 05:39 AM: Message edited by: Jennie@ifish ]

[Paddlefish]

I've been doing my part, riding my bicycle to work, getting my heart rate up and sucking up extra smog from the air and filtering it with my lungs -- so that I could make it possible for some of you guys to keep fishing. :rolleyes:

Somebody's gonna owe me a seat one of these days. :wink:

[Lured In]

Most of you may not realize that the "smog" you see is pretty much always at nearly the same level from an emissions standpiont. The reason sometimes you can see it and sometimes you don't has to do with upper level winds. These winds in effect, create a roof over an area and the mountains/geography keep it from moving out until winds shift.

[Lepper]

considering there is 100's if not 1000's of wild fires rageing in the state as of this morning... it's not surprise to see all the haze......

Solution, Put the wild fires out. 75% of problem solved....

[STGRule]

Lured In: It gets capped in and justs adds todays pollution to yesterdays and the day befores. So it is actually up to twice as much pollution as the day before.

Lepper: That only works when the wind is from the east or south east.