Ozone Alert days are here!

[mrhaskellok]

Put away your lawmowers, and turn off your engines... Ozone Alert days are here.  
http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=tsa&wwa=air%20quality%20alert

Ride the bus
or carpool with these people
or these people
Another great site here
and another

best of luck in your attempt to make our air cleaner.National Weather Service Ozone Alert

[cannon_fodder]

I'm not driving anywhere for lunch today and I'll put off mowing my lawn another day.  

"Excuses excuses" - Mrs. Fodder.

[RecycleMichael]

We are walking to lunch today. I promised the whole office I would buy lunch at Elote's on the first ozone alert day of the year.

Luckily, some of them are on vacation today or I would be broke.

[Double A]

We've already exceeded once this year. The risks are high and the odds are against us.

[sauerkraut]

So everything grinds to a stop in "T" Towne because of Ozone. Workers get off early, summer schools close, campers pack it in and move inside, motorcycles are banned from the road, the only thing that is allowed to go on normally is the leaf blower machines, you can hear them roar all thru the morning quiet of Tulsa. Oh yeah baby crank up the leaf blower![}:)]

[RecycleMichael]

Tulsa hasn't exceeded as of 1:45pm today. We are close and have three or four more hours to go before we know for sure.

Ozone levels start building up in the morning and really pickup in the afternoon. We sure need some wind, especially in east Tulsa where the monitor already reads 65 parts per billion. An exceedence is 75 parts per billion averaged over an eight hour period.

Here is the realtime page...

http://www.ozonealert.com/  

Sauerkraut...in Ohio where you are, the one hour numbers are off the chart. Cincinnati and Dayton are well over a hundred parts per billion right now.

[RecycleMichael]

It looks like we made it through today. The eight hour average only got into 60 parts per billion.

Thanks to everybody who rode their bike to work, rode the bus, walked to lunch or avoided any vehicle miles traveled.

[GG]

quote:Originally posted by unreliablesource

quote:Originally posted by sauerkraut

So everything grinds to a stop in "T" Towne because of Ozone. Workers get off early, summer schools close, campers pack it in and move inside, motorcycles are banned from the road, the only thing that is allowed to go on normally is the leaf blower machines, you can hear them roar all thru the morning quiet of Tulsa. Oh yeah baby crank up the leaf blower![}:)]

No life does not grind to a stop, things go on pretty much as usual.   More people that have access may ride public transportation and a few yards may not get mowed but it's not like we're having snow storm where schools close and workers are sent home early.