Wow, I'm afraid to go outside today. There are fires in south central Oregon and south easterly winds are blowing them straight into the Willamette valley. The Lane Regional Air Protection Agency says the air quality is worse here than in Oakridge, which is a town 24 miles away from one of the biggest fires. I've never seen the weather sites say "Smoke" where it usually says "Sunny" or "Cloudy". The air quality has been officially labeled "unhealthy" and people can expect to face health problems because of it. Crazy! Apparently people in this area have been finding ash and soot on their cars. Also crazy!

Austin, Alex and I were originally going to go climb Spencer's Butte but it would definitely be too dangerous, since we'd be needing as much clean air we can get in order to cool down in this upper-80s weather. Ick!

I am about to head out to run errands and then get the hell out of here! The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says our air quality index is 28 and the LRAPA says Eugene/Springfield's is 164.