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post #1 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:03am
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So for a few days now, Buenos Aires has been surrounded by Smoke.

It comes from large rural areas a few hundred miles away, that they are burning acres and acres of weed to harvest. And the winds made the fucking smoke come to the fucking city.

I'm talking The Mist levels of non visibility sometimes. Airports are closed, Docks are closed, highways are closed. It has basically shut down the city.
And this is not Mist or Fog, this shit gets in your eyes and hurts. All the clothes and homes are with smoked smell now.

This sucks!

Here's some pictorial evidence of a satellite image






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post #2 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:13am
Sucks, Tati.

My advice to you is to get drunk and put all of your somkeable meats on the front porch. Make lemonade.
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post #3 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:17am
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Worst part? It's supposed to last at least a few more days because of the wind conditions.
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post #4 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:19am
Reefer?

If so, get out and breath heavily.
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post #5 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:19am
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Sucks, Tati.

My advice to you is to get drunk and put all of your somkeable meats on the front porch. Make lemonade.
Honestly, Tati - Minsky's right. Time to start marinating those chicken legs out in the back yard. Make hay while the sun shines. Or while the smoke obliterates the sun.
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post #6 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:20am
This looks like a job for...
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post #7 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:20am
In Albuquerque, it seems like we always have smoke days resulting from forest fires in the surrounding regions. It's just annoying for me as a healthy person, but we always lose around 10 or 20 asthmatics and elderlies.
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post #8 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:21am
...only if they make a model that's 10 stories tall.

eta - dammit, Minsky! You ruined the flow!
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post #9 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:23am
A couple of months ago North Carolina got hit with some serious brush fires, and for a couple of weeks the winds carried the smoke up north. We didn't get it as thick here in southern Virginia like you are, but the smell and the taste permeated everything for days. It was hard to breathe outside, and that was just with a small fraction of what you are showing in those pics.

You have my deepest sympathies, man.
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post #10 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:25am
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...only if they make a model that's 10 stories tall.

X10^21

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eta - dammit, Minsky! You ruined the flow!
I see what you did there.
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post #11 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:26am
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Yeah there have been some casualties already. Highways are closed because there were a shit load of accidents and around 10 people died on day one.

Hospitals are flooded with people with trouble breathing and irritated eyes.

It's just a pain.
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post #12 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:27am
My advice? Grab a radio, a 2X4, and start yelling "SHARON!" at the top of your lungs every 15 seconds. Eventually, the cops or a strapping young fellow with a trapezoid on his head will come to your aid.
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post #13 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:32am
Reminds me of what happened here last summer:
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post #14 of 47
4/18/08 at 12:27pm
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My advice? Grab a radio, a 2X4, and start yelling "SHARON!" at the top of your lungs every 15 seconds. Eventually, the cops or a strapping young fellow with a trapezoid on his head will come to your aid.
Christ, he's right. Make sure to carry a radio with you at all times and if you hear static. Run.
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post #15 of 47
4/18/08 at 1:11pm
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Damn it's getting worse!
Carbon Monoxide levels are 10% away from serious health risks.

More updated pictures!







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post #16 of 47
4/18/08 at 1:15pm
Get To Da Choppah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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post #17 of 47
4/18/08 at 1:17pm
I fear for old people with portable oxygen supplies.
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post #18 of 47
4/18/08 at 1:21pm
Kidding aside, I'd seriously consider getting out of there.
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post #19 of 47
4/18/08 at 1:27pm
He can't cause the roads are shut down and it looks like the airport is shut down too.
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post #20 of 47
4/18/08 at 1:28pm
Fuck!
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post #21 of 47
4/18/08 at 1:36pm


Come ahhhn, Cristina Fernández! You got what you want. Give dees people air!
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post #22 of 47
4/18/08 at 1:40pm
Tati, I think you should take advantage of the confusion and the poor visibility and go on a robbery spree. You'll be kicking yourself if you pass up this opportunity.
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post #23 of 47
4/18/08 at 2:03pm
Jesus, Tati - seriously, if there's any way you can manage to get out of there, go for it. Stay safe, okay?
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post #24 of 47
4/18/08 at 2:06pm
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Thanks for the concern, but i'm fine. I'm inside an office building, with air conditioning. Has tons of filters.
So no biggie.
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post #25 of 47
4/18/08 at 2:27pm
I bet all the burger joints are doing great business though.
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post #26 of 47
4/18/08 at 2:38pm
I'm sure somewhere, someone is trying to smoke outside of an office building in Buenos Aires. Unless you're allowed to smoke indoors. Either way, this is the sort of thing that makes you say "Holy Shit!"

I mean christ I can't even figure when a day like that has happened in LA. Maybe 30 years ago when smog alerts would get horrendous.
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post #27 of 47
4/18/08 at 2:54pm
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Well, luckily it's clearing out. At least for now. I just went outside and it was approaching normal levels.
Too bad i had just shot my son and 3 good friends in the head.

We'll see how much it lasts.
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post #28 of 47
4/18/08 at 2:57pm
Are you in black and white, or in color?
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post #29 of 47
4/18/08 at 3:05pm
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Originally Posted by Don S. View Post
Are you in black and white, or in color?
Just remember: Do NOT kill your family until AFTER the smoke clears, no matter how thick it gets. 'Cause if you do, you just know that a bunch of Chewers will mock you for losing hope too easily. That ending just won't work for them.
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post #30 of 47
4/18/08 at 3:07pm
Also, your CGI kind of sucks Tati.
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post #31 of 47
4/18/08 at 4:26pm
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Too bad i had just shot my son and 3 good friends in the head.
Yeah, well. Always listen for the tanks. Live and learn, y'know?
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post #32 of 47
4/18/08 at 10:27pm
On a more pleasant note, I hope, is a story my friend Jen told us in college. Her family is from Haiti originally, and she still has cousins there. One such cousin lives on a farm. Now mind you, pot grows like. . . well, like a weed, wild, down there. The cousin and his dad decide to burn the vegetation in a field they've left fallow for a couple of years to clear it for planting. And what would happen to be growing in great abundance in said field? You guessed it: humongous wild marijuana plants. So they set fire to the field as planned, and he selects a banana tree downwind from the huge, thick smoke cloud produced by the slash 'n' burn, and climbs it, a mango and his pocket knife in hand. And he just spent the afternoon up there, breathing in a neverending cloud of pot smoke. Eating a mango.

Potheads that we all were, we all got wistfully jealous at this. . . . But it sounds like your experience isn't nearly as pleasant, Tati. Hang in there.
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post #33 of 47
4/18/08 at 10:47pm
Surprised no one has mentioned the irony of what city this is/was happening in.

Perhaps this is a stupid question (yeah, definitely) but.... how was the whole city not fucking high high?
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post #34 of 47
4/18/08 at 10:49pm
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They burnt acres and acres of regular weed Renn. Not dope.
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post #35 of 47
4/18/08 at 10:58pm
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They burnt acres and acres of regular weed Renn. Not dope.
boooooring

EDIT. Achem
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post #36 of 47
4/18/08 at 11:13pm
This is unbelievable. I mean, really, truly, frustratingly absurd.




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Fucking Argentinians can't even stop being hot while they die a slow, painful death from smoke inhalation.
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post #37 of 47
4/19/08 at 7:19am
I know, Schwartz. Clearly their's is a natural beauty. Which is lucky, because it's nearly impossible to re-apply lipgloss in between gasps for air as your lungs filled with toxic fumes.
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post #38 of 47
4/19/08 at 1:10pm
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Wind conditions brought them back!
I went to bed last night pretty drunk and everything was perfect.
I woke up and it's all smoked again!

fuck this!
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post #39 of 47
4/20/08 at 8:49am
Are you sure you're not just smelling the smoking hotness of Argentinians in general?
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post #40 of 47
4/20/08 at 9:36am
My suggestion: Get a radio out while you walk around and if it starts to get static run the other way.
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post #41 of 47
4/20/08 at 1:46pm
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Originally Posted by IggytheBorg View Post
On a more pleasant note, I hope, is a story my friend Jen told us in college. Her family is from Haiti originally, and she still has cousins there. One such cousin lives on a farm. Now mind you, pot grows like. . . well, like a weed, wild, down there. The cousin and his dad decide to burn the vegetation in a field they've left fallow for a couple of years to clear it for planting. And what would happen to be growing in great abundance in said field? You guessed it: humongous wild marijuana plants. So they set fire to the field as planned, and he selects a banana tree downwind from the huge, thick smoke cloud produced by the slash 'n' burn, and climbs it, a mango and his pocket knife in hand. And he just spent the afternoon up there, breathing in a neverending cloud of pot smoke. Eating a mango.

Potheads that we all were, we all got wistfully jealous at this. . . . But it sounds like your experience isn't nearly as pleasant, Tati. Hang in there.
That is an absolutely fucking amazing story. I'd love to be in that tree with just a mango, chilling and having all sorts of epiphanies. "Mmmm...mango taste like...Jesus."

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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
I'm sure somewhere, someone is trying to smoke outside of an office building in Buenos Aires. Unless you're allowed to smoke indoors. Either way, this is the sort of thing that makes you say "Holy Shit!"

I mean christ I can't even figure when a day like that has happened in LA. Maybe 30 years ago when smog alerts would get horrendous.
I don't know how bad you folks in the Valley got nailed, but the Griffith Park fires were kinda fucked. I remember the ash-taste in the air and the bizarre blood-red sunsets that made for awesome photos.

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My suggestion: Get a radio out while you walk around and if it starts to get static run the other way.
You're a day late and a dollar short, Vader! Get the fuck out of my office!
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post #42 of 47
4/20/08 at 1:48pm
Well I can't say much for the Griffith Park fires. But I was up in Santa Clarita at the time of the first last October and you could just see the smoke and taste it. It just looked really creepy at the time.

Same with the '03 fires where I'd be eating Subway near Cal State Northridge and see massive plumes of smoke to the west in which the sun would turn blood red.
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post #43 of 47
4/20/08 at 3:12pm
Shit, I got here to late for "The Mist" jokes.
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post #44 of 47
4/20/08 at 3:14pm
Yeah and they were trumped by Silent Hill jokes.
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post #45 of 47
4/20/08 at 4:22pm
No se olvide de traer una toalla



That probably doesn't translate right at all. From a free translation site.
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post #46 of 47
4/20/08 at 4:39pm
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It translates alright actually.
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post #47 of 47
4/20/08 at 6:40pm
Goddamn it. I'm always late.
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