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Two summers ago, the sky looked white where I was living despite being well over 2000 miles from the California wildfires. It was weird. The sun still cast shadows like a clear day but it looked cloudy.
I lived in central Montana when Mt. St. Helen's erupted. We lost the sun for a few days.
Just watching this after a Brain Blaze. Crazy change in demeanor between the two. Especially since he film/released them same day.
I would have included these examples: (11. The visor on my hat. (12. My hand, in front of my face
Clouds.
I live in California, in the Sierra Nevada mountain range (Lake Tahoe). Fires have become worse and worse over the years, with last year being particularly devastating. The Caldor fire near South Lake Tahoe caused an evacuation of the entire city (22,000 people) for over a week, before the area was barely contained. I live and work on North Lake Tahoe and we had bags packed and prepared for evacuation as well. The smoke was so bad, that we couldn't work on some days, and had to stay indoors all day. Keep in mind that North shore to South shore is 24 miles, with my home and work about 30 miles away from the fire.
Everyone had to get familiar with what AQI (Air Quality Index) is, and many of us including myself bought AQI readers. So, an unhealthy AQI is around 150-170, with over 200 being unhealthy to go outside at all. We were getting AQI readings from a fire over 30 miles away that were in the 600-700 range which is very poisonous to breathe. This, along with a viral pandemic did not bode well at all for us.
I remember driving back to FL when I was a teen. In the distance we could see a brown cloud sitting on the ground with a few tall buildings sticking out. I asked Dad what that was. It was Chicago.
Hopefully California will adopt a system of controlled burns and quit being California
3:47 Thank you Simon, thank you.
Brilliant-. We'll block out the sun and we won't need photosynthesis.
No love for the moon Simon?
Haven’t watched but I expect to hear about some arrows blocking out the sun!
Let's spend billions blocking the sun. Wait a minute. If there's no sun, there's no food. Brilliant.
I lived near the San Francisco Bay area during the orange haze. it was weird, to say the least. I also lived in Phoenix, Arizona where you get sand storms known as haboobs. The worst I ever experienced coincided with a thunderstorm. It was literally raining mud.
I remember Frankie Boyle's joke about the Beijing Olympics, how the field events were cancelled because the javelins got stuck in the sky.
Hey Simon, please, please, please do a Casual Criminalist video on James Mitchell "Mike" DeBardeleben. The other day you mentioned that the Secret Service in the US is responsible for investigating money counterfeiting crimes on the Casual Criminalist, which made me think of DeBardeleben. He was a prolific counterfeiter, so much so that the Secret Service gave him a nickname: "the mall passer". When they finally caught and arrested him, the Secret Service agents found a lot more than counterfeit money. Together with the FBI he was charged with a whole litany of crimes (he wasn't even prosecuted for most of them). He was sent to prison for life and the agents who investigated him said that he committed just about every felony on the books.
It amazes me how many people still believe in birds.
The day moon burns the flesh.
The reason the passenger pigeons went extinct was because they were so dumb they coined the term 'stool pigeon'! All someone had to do was tie a bird to a stool or some seat and its cries would alert its brethren to all come and help it. They never ran away, and were mowed down in droves by people. They never learned…no matter how few were left, they kept coming to try and help the trapped pigeon. This is why you need to understand when fearlessness gives way to complete and utter stupidity.
Calcium carbonate – isn't that simple chalk?
It’s scary but interesting to see ho many of these events happened in the last 20yrs…
These abrupt endings are killing me. Thought I lost signal.
Please give us a nice calming outro, Simon.
the arrows from our enemies blocked the sun once, but at least we fought in shade.
The fact we have eliminated the passenger pigeon is astounding.
Mosquito tornado
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.
I experienced my first dust storm three weeks ago when I was driving from Arizona to Florida. I was just about to leave New Mexico and head into Texas when I saw a huge wall of dust. By the time I had gotten to the highway we were supposed to head on it was blocked off. We had to drive four hours in the opposite direction to pick up the next highway because every road was blocked! It was crazy
The farming techniques that led to the "dust bowl" also led to the demise of the Rocky mountain locust swarms. They're still around but not numerous enough to swarm. We call em grasshoppers.
After a year of investigation into the California wildfires of 2020 it was found that they were caused by systemic racism and Trump's mean tweets.
I experienced one dust stirm made out of pine tree pollen back when i was stationed in North Carolina. Literally watched the "wall" of the pollen approach my and my squadmates. Cool and scary at the same time
You forgot one. My mother-in-law can block out the sun. She can eat an entire crop of anything plus everything in the cupboards in minutes. Bill Gates should put her underpants into orbit. That will definitely cool the entire earth. Just please, please give her something else to wear.
Doing landscaping once, I wondered why it was dark all of a sudden. I looked up and there was a swarm of bees above me!
Also living in New Zealand during the fires in Australia, people would mistake the Sun for the moon during the evening.
I saw some pretty terrifying sandstorms when I was in Iraq. What really threw me off the first time I saw one was the height of it. It just never occurred to me that they were as tall as they are. I almost didn't make it inside the first time I saw one since I was trying to figure out what was going on.
Doesn't have to be bigger than the star to block it, just closer..
Sure am glad that none of this happens in California…oh wait…
number four sounds like an SCP event
I’m generally a fan of creepy-crawlies, but as someone who has handled (and been bitten by) several desert locusts, the idea of being swarmed by a cloud of them is a mildly alarming one.
Where is War of Graphics?
Yikes🦟🦟🦟🌞
Being in AZ, I've seen dust storms of varying degrees. In Phoenix the wall of sand reached the sky… just blocked out everything.
The year in the 500s where the volcanic eruption’s ash blocked the sun was also known as the year without a summer.
The September 2020 smoke storm extended all the way from Mexico to Canada, and from sea level to 30,000 feet up in the atmosphere, lasting 7-9 days. In my area, we didn't see the sun for nine days straight, just a thick blanket of gray smoke.