"mayhaps"

Now there is a Maine phrase if ever there was.

It was on with Lester Holt for a few consecutive days at least.

You might enjoy this photo from a passing airliner: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/112ptb9/passenger_photo_while_plane_flew_near_east/

I want some of what this fool is smoking

Welp, here is what the burn looked like from a passing airliner: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/112ptb9/passenger_photo_while_plane_flew_near_east/

Hathaway. Man, I sure do miss those fine quality shirts.

All those summer time ozone warnings... plus, for those of us familiar with Mt. Washington, everything atmospheric swings on by up there.

Seeing is believing.

Are you blind?

How would you handle this, starting now?

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Never. Sounds like a pejorative term just like certain municipalities have been dubbed “the asshole of New England”.

The amount of particulate from the dust bowl is on a completely different scale to a train derailment. People are making this about themselves when the actual risk to anyone not in the area of the disaster is likely to be vanishingly small. If you want to worry about this feel for the poor people in the watershed or around where it happened. Don't panic for yourself some 700 miles away

Oh cool. This might be just the ticket. Thank you.

Your commitment to arguing with me is asinine. That does not change the fact that relying on the generosity of others sharing their experience with me helps cull a list of places I might want to then check and see whether or not they cater? Or offer catering services through a third party? Like for pop-ups? And many, many (but not all) restaurants in Portland do cater. I used to work in the industry, and this really was not an uncommon thing for people to ask about…

My friend has tapped a bunch of trees and it’s not flowing yet, I think you made the cut!

I live my life too and enjoy it as much as I can as next as the fellow human. I walk my dog and enjoy good food and company of friends and family. I'm not at home doom scrolling 24/7. But ignoring facts is really not going to do you much good. I wish you luck with the better things you have to do. I hope you continue to have the privilege to do them

Thats your opinion though. And mine is contrary. I've got better things to do than care about things I can't change

I talked to my Mom last night. She's in Maine and pretty much will only watch NBC Nightly News. I asked her if she heard of this. Nope! She had no idea. Anyone have any speculation as to why this is practically not talked about by the media? I find it bizarre and a bit scary as I'm about 10 hours downwind to this thing. It also might be my imagination but I've practically had no birds at my feeders for the past two days. WTH!

I'm not projecting, and I'm personally not freaking out. I let it sink in a long time ago we're screwed. However for a lot of others, it's becoming clear we are existentially threatened right now by climate change and infrastructure breaking down because of a horrible system that makes money on both climate change and having shitty infrastructure. I think if more people freaked out 30 years, we'd be in better shape.

You think it's deeply insecure because you're projecting. You see what you look for.

I'm addressing the individuals reacting to the air quality of Maine, not the disaster itself.

any hardware store

I used to live in mass how they treat white people in general know is rascist as fuck let's see how this ends but I would think at this point white and Hispanic close in mass

Surprisingly yes, but it was more in the context of coal emissions from the Midwest/Appalachia and Maine having the third highest rate of asthma in the country behind Hawaii and Massachusetts (surprising based on how rural we are comparatively)

Yes, the Hathaway Man used to say that.