Re: OT: CA Wildfires

2020-09-13 Thread Christine Aguila
I HATE 2020! christine > On Sep 9, 2020, at 11:33 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > There is no "safety" in 2020, it seems. AQI was up into the 130+ "Unhealthy" > range for the past three days along with ambient temperatures floating up > into the 100-115 range even here in the SF Bay Area.

Re: OT: CA Wildfires

2020-09-11 Thread John
We've had occasional small earthquakes around here, but the only one I remember experiencing was the August 2011 earthquake in Northern Virginia. I remember it as a low rumble that rattled my windows. IIRC it lasted about 2 minutes, building up slowly & then tapering off. About half way

Re: OT: CA Wildfires

2020-09-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
At 3:30pm in Santa Clara, the light outdoors was blood orange and the light levels looked like about an hour past sunset last evening. It's lightened up a little now, but I'm staying in for the rest of the day. There's absolutely no point in going out without a darn good reason to, given the

Re: OT: CA Wildfires

2020-09-09 Thread steve harley
On 2020-09-9 10:33, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: There is no "safety" in 2020, it seems. AQI was up into the 130+ "Unhealthy" range for the past three days along with ambient temperatures floating up into the 100-115 range even here in the SF Bay Area. The particulates in the air are particularly

Re: OT: CA Wildfires quantifying

2020-09-09 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 12:11:43PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > > It???s a bit dark out today. How dark? > > f/16, 1/100 ISO 10,000 > about 1% of normal light about 7 stops ... and with a significant colour shift towards the red. It's also more than a little cooler than yesterday. This time

Re: OT: CA Wildfires

2020-09-09 Thread ann sanfedele
wow... ann On 9/9/2020 12:33 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: There is no "safety" in 2020, it seems. AQI was up into the 130+ "Unhealthy" range for the past three days along with ambient temperatures floating up into the 100-115 range even here in the SF Bay Area. The particulates in the air are

Re: OT: CA Wildfires

2020-09-09 Thread Nolan Hinshaw
> On Sep 9, 2020, at 09:18, John wrote: > > I doubt anyone in California si *safe* this week. But I hope all are > surviving & have not been rendered homeless by the fires. The big problem here on the shore of the Pacific is the Creek Fire and the resulting pyrocumulonimbus smoking up the

Re: OT: CA Wildfires

2020-09-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
There is no "safety" in 2020, it seems. AQI was up into the 130+ "Unhealthy" range for the past three days along with ambient temperatures floating up into the 100-115 range even here in the SF Bay Area. The particulates in the air are particularly bad. I stay indoors the past two days, with

Re: OT: CA Wildfires quantifying

2020-09-09 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
WOW! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 3:12 PM Larry Colen wrote: > > It’s a bit dark out today. How dark? > > f/16, 1/100 ISO 10,000 > about 1% of normal light about 7 stops > > -- > Larry Colen >

Re: OT: CA Wildfires

2020-09-09 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
We are about 40 miles from the epicenter. We did not feel if/ There was a quake of about the same magnitude on the Alaskan Peninsula while we were there. I was sleeping, and woke up at the time of the quake, even though I did not feel any of its effects. We sit atop something called the Peapack

Re: OT: CA Wildfires quantifying

2020-09-09 Thread Larry Colen
It’s a bit dark out today. How dark? f/16, 1/100 ISO 10,000 about 1% of normal light about 7 stops -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly

Re: OT: CA Wildfires

2020-09-09 Thread Larry Colen
> On Sep 9, 2020, at 7:29 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > * Is everyone safe out on the left coast this week?* > > More than 85 fires are burning across the West Coast in an unprecedented > event that's already scorched hundreds of thousands of acres On the bright side, there’s a huge,

Re: OT: CA Wildfires

2020-09-09 Thread John
PS: How close were you to this morning's New Jersey earthquake? Did it wake you up? On 9/9/2020 12:18:10, John wrote: I doubt anyone in California si *safe* this week. But I hope all are surviving & have not been rendered homeless by the fires. On 9/9/2020 10:29:36, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

Re: OT: CA Wildfires

2020-09-09 Thread John
I doubt anyone in California si *safe* this week. But I hope all are surviving & have not been rendered homeless by the fires. On 9/9/2020 10:29:36, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: * Is everyone safe out on the left coast this week?* More than 85 fires are burning across the West Coast in an

OT: CA Wildfires

2020-09-09 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
* Is everyone safe out on the left coast this week?* More than 85 fires are burning across the West Coast in an unprecedented event that's already scorched hundreds of thousands of acres