# Florida wildfires

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-wildfires/403245>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 8, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-wildfires/403245 "2007-05-08T14:59:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-wildfires/403245/1 "2007-05-08T14:59:51Z")

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Haven’t seen any threads on this yet. Any Dopers dealing with the fires in this area?  
I live north of the huge fires that consume southwest Lee, Charlotte, Collier and Hendry counties, but the smoke is definitely catching us here. It’s tapered off now, but I could smell it when I woke up this morning at 6.30. All through my drive to work, the sky was hazy.

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**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-wildfires/403245/2 "2007-05-08T15:05:49Z")

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Hillsborough and Pinellas county here, specifically Tampa and St. Pete, and yeah, it is hazy as heck around here. The sun is almost blotted and it smells someone is bar-b-q’ing. Not irritating my eyes or anything but a few co-workers are coughing because of it.

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-wildfires/403245/3 "2007-05-08T15:28:22Z")

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It’s pretty hazy here in Gainesville as well. I don’t have a sense of smell, so that doesn’t bother me, although it is disconcerting to have to breathe gray air. However, relief is in sight, since we have a 20% chance of rain today. :dubious:

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-wildfires/403245/4 "2007-05-08T15:36:27Z")

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In Duval the wind occasionally brings in the smoke.

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**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-wildfires/403245/5 "2007-05-08T16:08:28Z")

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There’s another [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=419936)open in MPSIMS.

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-wildfires/403245/6 "2007-05-08T20:08:56Z")

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You can smell the smoke in the air.

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-wildfires/403245/7 "2007-05-08T20:15:22Z")

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Oddly, it’s bothering my husband more than it’s bothering me, although he smokes and I don’t.