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kevin_standlee) wrote2022-09-12 09:33 pm
kevin_standlee) wrote2022-09-12 09:33 pm
Reno in the Haze
Today I slept until around 9 AM (luxury!). I got breakfast at the Wigwam, ran local errands to collect held mail, mailed a Westercon 74 program book to a member whose mailing address didn't get into our database, and get some medical supplies from Walgreen's plus a few perishable items. Later in the day, Lisa and I convoyed into Reno with her driving the Astro and I the Rolling Stone because as I mentioned yesterday, the Astro's air conditioning once again is not producing cold air and we needed to take it back to the shop.
The air conditioning shop is located on Moana Lane, not far from the Atlantis Hotel, site of the 2011 Worldcon, Renovation. As we drove west on I-80, the light haze of smoke from the Mosquito Fire grew much heavier, and by the time I got the minivan checked in and started to walk back to the parking lot across the street where Lisa was waiting with the RV, the smoke was really awful.
Here's what the Atlantis Hotel looked like from about 800 m away.
The corner of Moana Lane and Kitzke Lane is about 200 m closer, but you can see that the smoke is still pretty heavy.
Lisa and I had a couple of shopping errands to run. Today's smoke was so heavy that we would have been wearing N95 masks even without our ongoing worries about COVID-19.
To replace a travel blanket of Lisa's that we accidentally left behind at a hotel, we stopped first at Savers. Then we stocked up on non-perishable groceries from WinCo before returning home. The air conditioning in the RV still works, and made the trip home more tolerable.
The smoke was lighter in Fernley, but you can still smell it. While the weather has cooled from the 40°C temperatures that were baking the area while we were in Chicago, it's still warm enough that we need to keep the windows open to cool the house at night; however, doing so lets in the smoke. There's no winning play here, but I guess we'll have to put the air filters back onto the fans we're using to move air through the house.
Tomorrow, I have to get back to work after two weeks and one day of vacation. I could use more, but having used up a lot of time on Westercon and Worldcon (ironically, after months of being in a use-it-or-lose it situation due to a PTO cap), I need to save some time for planned trips to SMOFCon in December, Westercon next July, Worldcon next year (visa and COVID willing), and most importantly NASFiC in Winnipeg, for which Lisa and I have a rather ambitious plan about which I will talk more if we can figure out how to do it.
The air conditioning shop is located on Moana Lane, not far from the Atlantis Hotel, site of the 2011 Worldcon, Renovation. As we drove west on I-80, the light haze of smoke from the Mosquito Fire grew much heavier, and by the time I got the minivan checked in and started to walk back to the parking lot across the street where Lisa was waiting with the RV, the smoke was really awful.
Here's what the Atlantis Hotel looked like from about 800 m away.
The corner of Moana Lane and Kitzke Lane is about 200 m closer, but you can see that the smoke is still pretty heavy.
Lisa and I had a couple of shopping errands to run. Today's smoke was so heavy that we would have been wearing N95 masks even without our ongoing worries about COVID-19.
To replace a travel blanket of Lisa's that we accidentally left behind at a hotel, we stopped first at Savers. Then we stocked up on non-perishable groceries from WinCo before returning home. The air conditioning in the RV still works, and made the trip home more tolerable.
The smoke was lighter in Fernley, but you can still smell it. While the weather has cooled from the 40°C temperatures that were baking the area while we were in Chicago, it's still warm enough that we need to keep the windows open to cool the house at night; however, doing so lets in the smoke. There's no winning play here, but I guess we'll have to put the air filters back onto the fans we're using to move air through the house.
Tomorrow, I have to get back to work after two weeks and one day of vacation. I could use more, but having used up a lot of time on Westercon and Worldcon (ironically, after months of being in a use-it-or-lose it situation due to a PTO cap), I need to save some time for planned trips to SMOFCon in December, Westercon next July, Worldcon next year (visa and COVID willing), and most importantly NASFiC in Winnipeg, for which Lisa and I have a rather ambitious plan about which I will talk more if we can figure out how to do it.