Twenty miles west of us is the Cedar Creek Fire. It started from a lightning strike on August 1. 45 days later its burned 91,103 acres and is still not contained. This is now the largest wildland fire in Oregon.
So this week we sat under a blanket of smoke. For most of the week air quality levels shifted between Very Unhealthy to Hazardous, with brief bouts of Moderate on the air quality index.
When the smoke gets this bad the only thing we can do is break out a good book and make sure the windows and doors are closed tightly.
There is a break in the forecast as weather patterns shift. However, until that happens we aren’t getting very far from home.