Bad Air Quality on the East Coast
Thanks, Canadian Wildfires
So I was doing a little bit of gardening today, not my usual thing, and I was trying to till some soil with a very old rusty pitchfork that apparently belonged to my stepgrandfather...and then just a wee bit of mulching. This really didn't feel like a ton of exertion, but..my heart started pounding! And since my nerves are sensitive, and my health stuff has been stirred up since the wisdom teeth removal, my left hand got a little shaky too. I was like: WTF is going on!? Went inside, rested, had some electrolyte drink, recovered.
Later at dinner, my dad commented on the haze and smoke from the fires and I was like: DOH! I forgot about all the air pollution coming our way right now from Canada. I checked the air quality on AirNow and today (Tuesday) was an orange alert for particulate matter, and tomorrow is a full-blown RED and that's not good.
Was it the smoke that made me feel like crap? Well, I'm not going to push it. I guess I'll be staying inside the next couple of days except to go visit the chiropractor.
How about you? How is the air quality where you are, and does it impact you?
Only a filter in the air conditioner in my bedroom and my husband has a air purifier in his. Just use them at night. We lived through the awful pollution from 9/11 (we live just across the river from lower Manhattan) and I walked home over the Brooklyn Bridge through it. I figure I must have lungs of steel, lol!
I'm in Brooklyn, NY, and it is horrible here. Last night it was literally as if the building I live in were on fire, with smoke and bits of ash floating in the air through the window with outside an awful orange haze. Today again, smoky air that smells like fire.