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Batrock

Trad climber

Burbank

Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 9, 2009 - 05:48pm PT

I remember smog alerts in Los Angeles when I was in school in the 70's, along with burning lungs. My kids dont know what a smog alert is yet. Is the air cleaner now than it was? Or can you just not see the nasties?

dirtbag

climber

Feb 9, 2009 - 05:58pm PT

Actually, it is cleaner by many measures, including measurements of air polluition-caused health problems.

Regulation-hating right must like dirty air, since clean air regulations are responsible.

Batrock

Trad climber

Burbank

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2009 - 06:25pm PT

Even driving to JT has gotten better. I remeber driving into or out of a wall of smog right arounf Fontucky or Rancho Cucabama.

rmuir

Social climber

the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.

Feb 9, 2009 - 08:31pm PT

Yeah, as seen from the top of Mt. Rubidoux, I vividly remember the moving wall of smaug creeping in from the West. Like the Crawling Eye it was! Tahquitz could be seen to the east, but once the Wall wrapped around Rubberducks you couldn't even see the Santa Ana riverbed at the base of the mountain!

Things are MUCH better now!

Dick_Lugar

Trad climber

Indiana (the other Mideast)

Feb 9, 2009 - 09:42pm PT

Great...one of the main reasons I moved out of the Central Valley was the smog in the early 90's...now houses are too expensive to move back, even with the 28% decrease in prices.

Glad it's better for you folks though, group HUG everybody?

Moof

Big Wall climber

A cube at my soul sucking job in Oregon

Feb 10, 2009 - 12:28am PT

Yes better, but not great. San Bernardino is still home to some family, and in the 20 years since I moved away, it is way better, but still much worse than any other place I've visited it from, with the exception of Fairbanks' ice fog.