Back to normal urine and pot smells in NYC now.
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And I miss living there. (Except for the urine smell.) lol
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It’s much better now … the cannabis almost completely covers it up.
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Yeah, it’s a matter of perspective, for sure.
I love the “stay safe” and “hope you’re okay” things, but I have a hard time with jokes. I’m sure you wanted to make this a bit more light-hearted with your comment! And for that, hey thanks. 
My struggle here is: Germany is experiencing more and more wildfires, too. And that’s not normal, historically. 
I’m currently getting less sleep because my apartment overheats (and I have been looking for a new place for 18 months now).
I’ll go for a bike ride now, enjoy the breeze before it gets how. 
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Lady at work has just come back from Germany visiting family and says it is too hot- and she lives in Queensland!
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Also, apologies to @sshoihet, I just realized “damn I’m so tired I am cranky”.
We should form a wall of bass and put out the fires with our coolness 
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I was born in the Bronx. I do not miss the city at all, and if I never go back I’m good.
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It’s was rough. I’m also in upstate NY and we had a lot of issues. I manage facilities for my company and we had to have all HVAC units at our various locations serviced as precaution.
Took its toll on me with allergies and breathing issues. Much better now but was a rough couple days.
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A few years ago my old office/labs at pepsi decided to go 100% fresh air for all the HVAC.
Everyone had to be sent home.
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I feel the same about Toronto. As far as I’m concerned, the nicest thing anyone can do for it is a meteor strike.
Well this escalated quickly 
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We’ve known for over a hundred years what we should be doing to prevent large forest fires but due to political/business actions and public pressure, we continue to do the wrong things and that’s making fires larger/worse. Unfortunately it’s taken a long time for people to listen to the lessons that should have been learned from the big burn of 1910.
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It does’t help that you guys have trees full of oil which burn so well 
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It help chase the drop bears out of the suburbs tho.
California seems to have imported a heap of them too- no wonder they burn every few years too
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Yes exactly! I used to wonder how they had repeated fires all the time instead of 20-30 years like other places; and then i read about all the fast growing/oily trees they have 
We had a big fire here in 2003 that burned hundreds of houses and it turned out that most of them had wood shake roofs that weren’t fire resistant and they caught fire when burning debris landed on them. It was a hard lesson for a lot of people living in interface areas.
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It doesn’t help that a lot of conifers are very well fire-adapted and their seed pods (aka cones) not only need fire to open them, but as the sap in the tree boils to vapor and explodes, these little bastards pop off the branches and zing off into the heavens like little fireballs. Spreading the seeds and the fire, of course. Some can fly over a hundred feet.
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I wouldn’t say that doesn’t help… It does help, forests are meant to burn, it helps them and the animals that live in them. There are a lot of plants that will only grow after a fire 
Fireweed honey is one of the best!
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Most of Australia has adapted to be fire dependent, it is one of the tangible effects ancient humans (Aboriginals) had, that and eating all the big interesting animals.
Aussie forests need to burn every few years for seed dispersal and regrowth. This is part of the reason that the fuel load grows so quickly and burns so well.
Unfortunately, despite the fact that regular human started fires have been happening for tens of thousands of years it is not fashionable these days and burns are not happening as often as they should.
Having said that we had a couple of big fuck-off fires in recent years and this may change.
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Yep, it’s the same in the US and Canada.
I’m happy to see that we’re starting to embrace traditional forest/fire management practices How a B.C. First Nation community is reintroducing fire to manage the land - The Globe and Mail
Unfortunately there are a lot of people who want to live in/near the forests and don’t want them to burn regularly and there are still a lot pushing for more/better wildfire fighting and putting out every spot fire as soon as it starts. If you don’t have lots of little small fires to burn off the light stuff, you get huge fires that burn everything in their paths and don’t go out until winter; It’s amazing how many people just don’t get it.
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