Tom Joad approves.

/or not

Goddamn off-roaders. Farking hike or mountain bike you lazy fat asses.

After I moved to Colorado my allergies and asthma definitely got worse. When I travel to other regions of the U.S. my allergies/asthma die down, when I come home they get worse again. I mean, even going to California where I can feel the pollution in my lungs, but it's a different kind of irritation.

Now I know what's going on. Thanks Fark!

saddest thing ever read. i can't believe it. that story really got to me.

Egalitarian: Goddamn off-roaders. Farking hike or mountain bike you lazy fat asses.

After I moved to Colorado my allergies and asthma definitely got worse. When I travel to other regions of the U.S. my allergies/asthma die down, when I come home they get worse again. I mean, even going to California where I can feel the pollution in my lungs, but it's a different kind of irritation.

Now I know what's going on. Thanks Fark!

Well you definitely aren't allergic to butt hurt.

If you don't know how allergies work, you might be suprised that you have issues in regions newer to you. However, if you picked up a book, you might have expected it.

Hey guys what's going on in this thread ?

Dustbowl 2: Asthmatic Bugaloo

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Dustbowl 2: Asthmatic Bugaloo

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Haboobies!

Holy craaaaaap. When/where was this pic taken?

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A Terrible Human: Chinchillazilla: Weird. I was only in Denver for a few days, but I definitely had the impression that he air was 1000x cleaner than here in Lexington.

Any reason why?

The air is thinner and feels crisper in Colorado. I don't know if this means it is actually more clean, but to me it certainly feels/smells that way. I do know that the Front Range was the go-to place for people suffering from Tuberculosis and other lung diseases for a long time, so there's something about the air that's good for breathing even if people from the coasts feel like they can't breathe at all when they go there.

/grew up in CO
//still miss the air :(

A Terrible Human: Chinchillazilla: Weird. I was only in Denver for a few days, but I definitely had the impression that he air was 1000x cleaner than here in Lexington.

Any reason why?

All the pollution scrambled his mind, so he thought he was breathing clean air.

kd8our: saddest thing ever read. i can't believe it. that story really got to me.

Pfff, I hate that meme. Every day we have one of these "sad feelings" jokes in the headline. Why can't you just admit some dust got in your eyes? JEEZ.

Bacon is Meat Candy: Dust from dirt roads is destroying America? Is that it? Really? Pardon me if I'm skeptical.

i agree. i live in a socal desert town where half the roads are dirt. yet 95% of the time the air up here is MUCH cleaner/clearer than down in the la area.

Rubber tires kick up a lot of dust, and coal produces lots of soot. That might contribute a bit to dust in the air. When dust gets into the atmosphere, it can travel thousands of miles, sometimes halfway around the globe.

There's a ton of research on this beyond the minimal science in the article. But until we attempt to seriously combat climate change it doesn't matter.

There's a contributor that wasn't mentioned in the article. Farms in the USA do not burn off annually--at least not as much as they used to. In Mexico, all that produce that's trucked up here comes from farms that burn off. I can look onto the Gulf at certain times of the year and see the smoke cloud.

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Dustbowl 2: Asthmatic Bugaloo

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Haboobies!

This picture is in desperate need of a shop job. My shop skills couldn't do this picture justice tho. Any takers?

I give you Tom Joad and get nothing? FARK, I am dissapoint. Must not be sweet Thursday, so I'm gonna get on my red pony and ride off to Tortilla Flats, just past Cannery Row.

/no use complaining about the obliviousness of mice and men....

Might it also possibly be to the few rivers in the west being drunk dry by large cities? The Colorado doesn't even reach the ocean anymore.