If you are headed north from Sacramento or San Francisco or even the Los Angeles and San Diego Areas just be aware that today Mt. Shasta is covered by smoke to the point that where I am watching it now I can just barely make out the mountain today.
Yesterday when I headed south from Portland on Interstate 5 I saw no smoke at all until we got near Grants Pass. Then it got really bad and we had to recycle our air and use the air conditioner to filter our air inside the car. Today, here in Mt. Shasta, breathing isn't bad (at least yet) and the smoke appears to be traveling at around 1000 feet or more above the ground to about 5000 feet in altitude and headed south towards parts of both southern and Northern California at present. The news said that some of the 6 fires in southern Oregon will be allowed to burn out sometime in October or when the first big rains come because they are just too dangerous and expensive to fight using firefighters because of their locations. In other words they don't want to lose any more men fighting these fires.
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