http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18415235
Although the government would like the world to believe the pollution challenges in Beijing will be nothing to worry about for the Olympics and Paralympics, the consensus is that we are hoping for the best, but will believe it when we see it.
After 4 decent health weeks, outside of my eyes burning after a few minutes when go outside, I finally fell victim to the pollution. I have had random coughing and my sinus has been blocked a few days this week. We are all feeling the pain here, as I imagine most managers have now been affected by the poor air. Several managers have had to head to the doctor to get checked out for their upper respitory infections!! I now value clean air as one of the most important pieces of helping decide where I would like to live. Luckily Alaska has beautiful air!!
There are some taller buildings down the street that are shrouded.
The pedestrian bridge is about 200 yards ahead. You can see how far the pollution affects your sight!
The sun is high above at 8 am in the morning. There are plenty of buildings off in the distance, it sure would be nice to see them!
This is from one of the worst pollution day's since I have been here (Thursday). This is taken from my hotel room.
Here is what it looks like a better day (Saturday). Although better, you can still feel the weight of the air when you go outside.
5 comments:
Wow, that is pretty amazing! Are there mountains nearby keeping the pollution around? Or was it just a low pressure day weatherwise?
Also, I was curious if you have you seen many people playing ping-pong?
Are there any other unusual things have you seen?
Do you have any roommates yet?
Hope you're still having a good time and hope you can come back with two lungs!
Come on Jason, there's nothing like air you can taste. As a matter of fact, I'd like to pull out my knife, cut a piece out of that air, take it home, put it on a plate, sprinkle it with some fresh basil, take a bite and wash it down with a nice glass of chianti. It looks like you still haven't developed a refined taste for the finer things in life.
Those damn Chinese People! They think they can just hide all the crap from the foreigners for the Olympics, but it'll be a hard one to hid all that f-ing smog!
Ah.... What's up with the Pollution reporting. One blog about it, okay, but two! U sure you don't want to stick around china to be reporting pollution?
And Husk the meat helmet's commet, u should probably put "it" on a plate, sprinkle some "sriracha hot sauce" and wash it down with a Tsingtao Beer instead.
That sounds like it would go well with donkey's testicle stew too. Now that's what's called finer things in life!
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