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Around 9:40am

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Around 9:45am (the Taqueria was already open for business)

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Around 10am, the (infamous) California Hotel in Oakland

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10:10am. Another Taqueria, deep in West Oakland.

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10:30am. Oakland harbor, Merchant Navy training vessel.

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11:10am. Oakland Harbor Brooklyn Basin, old WWII warehouse skeleton. Skies a bit brighter, but that's as far as it went all day.

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Late morning, downtown

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vor 3 Stunden schrieb fotografr:

That situation is really spooky. I have a good friend who lives just north of the city and he's been sending images like yours showing the bright orange sky at mid day. He loves the images but says he needs an N-95 mask to go out.

Thanks for checking in, your friend is acting prudently. Ironically, the AQ wasn't that bad yesterday, at least on the PM2.5 scale: 49 read my phone APP. On the other hand, my car was covered with ash and soot (PM10 and larger) particles, so an N95 mask was probably a bit overkill. That was yesterday. Today, the PM2.5 for the East Bay stands at over 150, everything that was suspended high above creating that orange glow has now descended onto street level. We could use a bit of rain now, that's for sure.

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vor 3 Stunden schrieb pippy:

Thanks very much for posting. Such a beautifully eerie, haunting sequence of images.

I sincerely hope everyone over there takes great care of themselves.

Philip.

Thank you.
People here have learned to deal with the fires, but sometimes it's just too quick and unpredictable, they can trap folk that prefer to live off the grid as well as an entire town within minutes, and then it gets really dicey. Firefighters are the real deal in California, all 14,000 of them, but the state is huge and geologically complex.

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vor 6 Stunden schrieb Chuck Albertson:

I'm pretty sure the opening still for this BBC piece shows the apartment building inhabited by Steve McQueen's character in "Bullitt."

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-54109381

A classic, this film, and it did a lot for San Francisco as a film location and tourist magnet, of course. Times are changing, though...

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