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Shooty · Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 182

Here's how it looked on Thursday in Reno from the fire 150 miles away.

Hopefully no one at Shooters got a cough.

CaSwede · Joined: 28 Feb 2006 Posts: 866

I live about 50 miles from the fire and the air is clear and clean . Take that Reno!

Sometimes life is not fair. Confused

spdmrcht · Joined: 12 Oct 2012 Posts: 498

We went to Reno on friday and sat. we hit the smoke at la grange rd till
Reno, was going to go downtown but the smoke was to bad. So had
to stay inside the nugget and have steak and Lobster at Orozko. Oh poor
us. It was great. ya might want to get some masks, it's going to be
a while before this one is out!

remano · Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 717

I saw that photo on the national news. It was captioned as "Downtown Reno" but it looks like it was taken from the Federal Courthouse, looking south down Virginia Street toward the Peppermill and Atlantis. The smoke was so thick you couldn't see the mountains from the Atlantis. It's still smoky today, but much better than before.

JD · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 956

This morning at 6 am, the sun rose as the brightest, red ball in the East. It looked like something from a Sci-Fi flick.

Reporting from the 27th floor of GSR, this is JD, KOLO TV, reporting.

BC Dave · Site Admin Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 1598

Although now largely contained, there has been another fire west of Lake Tahoe called the "American Fire". Perhaps it has been contributing to the visibility issues in Reno. Or maybe it's all the smokin' avatars. http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/7830558-113/fire-smoke-sunday-tahoe

stan_allen · Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 1129

That's some rough air, there - better get inside to a casino!

Ah, that's much better; nothing in here but a non-stop cloud of cigarette smoke!

BC Dave · Site Admin Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 1598

Don't know if it's me or a technical glitch, but a couple of times lately my posts have posted double.

Mammothgambler · Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 619

Cough! Hack! Sneeze! Wheeze! It's been terrible here - normally full-bore sun and cloudless skies turning everything all overcast. Fortunately, it's starting to clear up. I will say that it's put an awesome perspective on the sunrises and sunsets though - hey, every cloud has a silver, smoky lining, right?

I kid you not, it was so bad in the later part of last week that the interior 4th floor of Harrah's East Tower smelled like a hickory chip!

Seriously folks, say a prayer for all those involved with the fire. Several of my friends in Mammoth had to head south to LA because they just couldn't deal with inhaling.

Mammothgambler

stan_allen · Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 1129

Dave, take off those bifocals, and everything should be fine.

john · Site Admin Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 1181

You must be doing something out of protocol, Dave. This board never makes double posts.

john · Site Admin Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 1181

You must be doing something out of protocol, Dave. This board never makes double posts.

BC Dave · Site Admin Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 1598

I probably clicked on "Submit" when I meant to just "Preview" - not sure. That "Preview" button can save a lot of embarressment - like when I mispelled a word when posting about yanking on a clock. 'Nuf said!