Six straight days with an AQI over 500. Businesses are closed due to air quality (not that anyone is leaving their houses anyway), the state closed all of the forests, the city closed all of the parks, highways are closed, and we can only be outside for 30 seconds before the smoke starts tickling your throat and chest. Visibility this morning was less than 100'. The dog is going nuts because she hasn't been run in almost a week, and the wife and I are going stir crazy. This is more of a quarantine than Covid ever was. The temperature has been dropping throughout the week because the sun can't get through the smoke, so we are in a quasi nuclear winter.
So far, three of my friends have lost their homes. My coworker had the bonus of his Nest Cam picking up looters ransacking his house and stealing his possessions a few hours before the house burnt to the ground.
Been fun here.