Poisonous Gasses

Sometimes I think it would be nice to stay in Utah for awhile and raise a family here. Other times, I seriously question myself and wonder if it could be the worst thing in the world. When do I start having these episodes of doubt and fear? When I look outside and know that I am actively loosing 5-10 years off of my life. Seeing as we sit down in a valley, surrounded by mountains on every side, it seems the air does not know how to escape our cities. When we go for a stretch of time with no storms, the air just gets darker and darker and darker. We are in the middle of this right now. Some people define it as an 'inversion' because they say the wind blows the opposite direction than normal so it picks up all the dust. Some news people are just calling it fog. I happen to know a few things about fog: fog is NOT brown, and fog does NOT smell bad. Both of these characteristics are here with our inverted, polluted air. We live extremely close to the base of the mountains, yet I can't even see them because the air is so gross. You know it's bad when you hear a news reporter say "Betcha thought the air wouldn't get any worse! Well...it did." Yeah, they actually said that. We've had red-air alerts all week. Stay inside! Don't BREATHE. Also, the news decided to be helpful and list what the current visibility was for all the cities, some were 8, some 5 (miles)...Provo? ZERO. You can't get less than zero with visibility, it's not like the temperature where you can have negative numbers. No negatives for visibility, which means we are the worst you can possibly be. How comforting. We're even worse than Salt Lake City!! How is that?!?! Gross, gross, gross. That's how I feel.

Comments

KB said…

ya.. there's a super weird stinky "mist" in pleasant grove. I drove through it the other night and thought I was dying.

January 20, 2009 at 12:11 PM

goujai said…

Matt: Gina, you know you can come out of Provo whenever you like, it would be good to have you here. No, wait. It's not that I don't like you but... no, no, no. Actually, it's that husband of yours.

No, that's not what I said!

January 20, 2009 at 9:29 PM

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