Believe me I feel your pain. This summer we got off easy in the Willamette Valley, but it's become clear over the past few years that fire/smokey air is going to be our new normal on the west coast.

At least in California, severe fire conditions are so normal that everyone who has lived there for more than three years is aware. In Oregon, people are under the illusion that it is still 1980 when fires were rare and burned out in wet conditions before they became overly large. We don't actually have the capacity or desire to even extinguish them, we just get them contained and wait for the rainy season (which is two months late this year).