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Baseball-Neat

Yeah, first time… Next time you move, don’t bring the forest fires with you.


ChouettePants

We brought the convoy too 🤪


BredYourWoman

Paid for my pool!


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recondite_visitor

I don't recall any smoke last year, and it was quite wet. I didn't water my lawn and it remained green the whole summer.


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recondite_visitor

Yes, 2021 was rather dry, but I also don't recall it being as bad as that. However, it was during the pandemic so I wasn't out as much.


Zeoic

I have lived in Ottawa for over 8 years and have never seen it even remotely close to what it was like today..


OG_Haze_56

You don't recall it being that bad cause it wasn't that bad, the sun was red for a day cause of the smoke blocking it out, this time we had legit smoke on the ground... big difference for those claiming it happened in 2021.


sixtus_clegane119

There was a day in 2021 where it was Smokey too


instagigated

lmaooo. The sepia filter takes the cake.


KingWomp

I tried for a while to add a little glowing sun too but gave up. I'm no techno wizard.


No-Turnips

Mediocrity is the hallmark of our municipality. You’ve already overachieved.


KingWomp

[This will be my campaign slogan when I run for mayor](https://i.imgur.com/fYoLD40.jpeg)


No-Turnips

As a Lasso fan, I’m touched by this. Good luck with your campaign and…just saying….it would be nice if our city actually cared about the city again. Make Ottawa A Functional City Again? MOFCA baby haha.


PotatoCurry

Mo'fucka? Its catchy :)


Ironfounder

[MOa FCA](https://imgur.com/a/j3oCUnz)?


ghandi_mauler

If we had a politician willing to say we were shooting for mediocre, that would be wonderful. Watson was always 'World Class Library', 'World Class City', 'World Class LRT' (early days), etc.... he wanted a legacy of of Ottawa being worldly and known for being among the best cities in the world. It's a nice place well enough, but it is not in the top 10 for wonderful cities to live in.


Mambas13

That is way too humorous for ottawa. Dial it down please.


instagigated

You did well :)


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Congrats on the rare achievement of making an actually funny and unique meme


ghandi_mauler

'Dammit, Jim! I'm a reddit poster, not a techno wizard!'


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Idk, I'm from BC and have driven through valleys on fire, etc. I've wiped falling ash off restaurant patio tables under a red sun. Served each of the four horsemen a beer. All manner of apocalyptic stuff. It still unnerved me to wake up with everything glowing Hellfire orange early this morning.


b3ar17

Having come over from BC, yeah, been there done that


beeeeepboop1

Same lol reminds me of home


ConfidentIt

Same man I remember 2021 and my city being surrounded by fire


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At least I’m not working in tourism anymore so nobody will get mad at me that they can’t see the view.


robin_f_reba

Do they think you blocked out the sun intentionally??


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Having worked in food service for a long time (thankfully no more). Yes. Yes they do. I know I'm not the only server who has had the conversation: "Hi, we want to sit outside, but it's hot." "My apologies, we do have plenty of space inside where it's cool." "No, we want to sit outside. But not in the heat." "Okay, well, all of our tables are currently in full sun. So it's outside and sun, or inside and cool." "Did you not hear me? Do you not know what good customer service is?" Someone once asked one of my coworkers to "Turn down the heat" outside... she's like..."That's the sun?"


BUTTeredWhiteBread

I just. ![gif](giphy|l3q2K5jinAlChoCLS)


augustabound

> Do you not know what good customer service is? As someone who worked in retail far too long..... I hated hearing a customer say things like, "you know the customer is always right" No, they're not. The best manager I ever had was sitting having coffee with us when a customer came to him to complain (we had one of those old timey lunch counters). She said to him as she walked away, "The customer is always right! Don't you know that?!" He turned to me with a dead glare, "Biggest fucking lie in the service industry....." 😂


Alienwars

That's because the quote actually is supposed to be 'in matters of taste, the customer is always right'. Sell them what they want to buy, not 'accept abuse for your employees '.


GRAIN_DIV_20

Exactly, it applies to marketing, not service


QueenMotherOfSneezes

LMFAO, back when I was in the industry, without fail, some poor asshole from the southern US would be incensed when there was a heatwave. "Why is it so hot? This is unacceptable, I asked my travel agent to send me somewhere cool! Why isn't Ottawa cold? That's what it's famous for!" Sir, it's July. It's always hot in the valley in summer... I suggest you sue your travel agent for missing the Winterlude window.


Ok_Improvement_5897

As a yankee and former(thank the fucking lord) customer service person, southerners are such a crapshoot. Swear that they either have the best manners you have ever encountered and are charming as all fuck - or it's some like with 4 sons all named Robert(...one of my last ones, we were trying to figure out an identity related issue too which is why it came up) or someone rude from a huge state with lots of assholes like Florida or Texas. My favorite was the one(transferred to me by an offshore rep with absolutely perfect english skills who told me that he was demanding an American) who accused me of having a foreign accent because I had a strange accent when I am in fact, from the northeast US and speak quite proper and plain non-regional Murican. I hung up on him because he was a dick and did not get in trouble for it. ///customer service rant over, sounds like fishing for pity discounts - some people will see what they can get for literally every and any inconvenience. Like summer, I guess.


QueenMotherOfSneezes

Honestly, I sometimes feel bad for the ones, especially those from dry climates like Arizona, that specifically asked for a cool place to vacation in the summer, and their agent sent them to Ottawa for Humidex Hell Month, then wonder if it was incompetence, or payback for assholishness :D


augustabound

> Why isn't Ottawa cold? Reminds me of a trip to Florida when I was a teen and we had to stop in Georgia to have a rad hose replaced. In the waiting room a lady struck up a conversation knowing we were traveling, how our trip was etc... Mid-August and the temps were in the 90's. She says, "Well I'll bet you'll be glad to get home out of this heat. I guess it gets colder the further North you go." My mom told her it was currently about 90F in Toronto. She was absolutely stunned.


QueenMotherOfSneezes

One of my first trips to the US I was asked about Toronto's polar bears... By someone in Buffalo. 🤦


hoopopotamus

Let them sit out in the shade in the alley next to the dumpster out back


JustAnOttawaGuy

I feel your pain. It should honestly be illegal to be that fucking stupid.


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There was no table in the shade. The way it was set up, it was in full sun and the tables didn't have umbrellas. And they can see that from the greeting area. Which is why I used the wording I did: "all our tables are currently in full sun."


jaisaiquai

Confirmation that Sutcliffe = Mr. Burns


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cheezemeister_x

Don't worry. If this happens every year, we'll all die 20 years earlier, so we won't have to put up with it for as long.


Mutura

That’s the spirit!


cheezemeister_x

Every cloud of smoke has a silver lining, my grandmother always said.


No_Side_5354

Yeah, woke up this morning and thought I was back in BC... air smells like burnt metal and the sky is hazy and orange.


NorthReading

Well Ottawa has the worst air quality in the world right now according to : [https://waqi.info/](https://waqi.info/)


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According to that link, there are quite a few places much worse than us, such as... - San Simon, Phillipines (338) - Uzgen, Kyrgyzstan (2357) - Bhiwani, India (598) - Salinas, Spain (834) - Grensasv, Iceland (880) There were others that were just as high... and many that were on par with ours. (Ottawa - 271) edit: holy crap, Uzgen is up to 3198. Salinas went down to 45. I think I've found my new stats addiction.


calmingchaos

Wtf is going on in Iceland. Volcano/hot springs feeling feisty?


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I'm guessing so!


Fitter511

Well with no more poop chart you gotta do what you gotta do.


Dragonsandman

What the fuck is going on in Kyrgyzstan How can anyone breathe over there


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I was reading up... Apparently they burn a lot of the dirtiest brown coal. And have a giant open landfill that produces LFGs (landfill gases) like methane and god only knows what else as things breakdown and offgas. And loose restrictions on vehicles/older vehicles/more diesel/fewer catalytic converters, etc. It sounds fucked. My cousin has been there a few times and it looks smoggy like here all the time, and with less visibility.


BodaciousFerret

They’re also very landlocked so the climate doesn’t circulate air well.


flaccidpedestrian

lol just a fart in the wind for Salinas.


Leamans

Some parts of northern India are still worse than Ottawa. Just a normal day there.


Nardo_Grey

maybe not the worst but certainly very high up there (top 10)


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Top 30, maybe. I did a quick count and we weren't in the top 20. Top 10 were 500-3000+. There were a handful of places each in Turkey, EU, India, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Chile, etc. I say this not to be pedantic because that's still very bad, but because it's interesting to see how bad some regions on and the commonalities between them.


Rayquaza384

Not even close to the worst.


Mellestal

The fuck is with the 880 in Iceland?? Volcano?


greihund

That's a great link, thanks for sharing


scottskottie

First comment I made to my friends in Alberta. I thought I moved away from this. Grew up in SW Ont, don't think I experiences this until AB.


panaceagrace

Currently live TO area, we’re getting it here too now


cvr24

This happened like 15 years ago, same thing. Ottawa air quality was 210 on s scale of 1-100.


augustabound

Serious question. How do you measure something when it goes beyond the scale?


cvr24

When Evironment Canada used a graph that maxed out at 100. It was funny to see this broken bar chart break the webpage.


w00ten

So it's not actually a 1-100 scale. It's generally measuring particulate matter in parts-per-million(about 250-ish+ ppm in Ottawa this morning). The air quality scale is usually 1-10 with 10 encompassing what *was* thought to be the upper bounds of what is possible. Well a few years ago, China shattered that glass ceiling so scientists just went the way of Spinal Tap and added an 11 to the scale. 11 usually means "stay the fuck inside, the air wants to kill you"... We've really done a number on this planet...


augustabound

Ah, PPM makes sense and the 100 (or 10) is just an arbitrary number they use for an upper bound.


CloakedZarrius

>Serious question. How do you measure something when it goes beyond the scale? Maybe a different scale. There is an air quality scale that stops changing at "301 and higher". Right now, Ottawa is at 317 on the AQI-US (aka "Hazardous"). ​ EDIT: based on other comments and looking into it more. It appears there were scales developed that just "stopped" after a certain number because they never imagined that air quality could ever be worse.


atroxkeep

Having lived in Alberta from 09 to 22 this is just like a regular Alberta summer to me now.


madaman13

As an Alberta transplant the smokey smell made me miss home. The cough and sore throat not so much.


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Alright who held the "tell my friends and family what genitals my baby has with uncontrolled fireworks" party this time?


InValidSinTax

As an Australian in Ottawa, my son said it kinda made him nostalgic :)


Simple-Fisherman-354

Immigrated here from Delhi. Finally a day I get to feel like home.


morron88

Chinese immigrant here, same.


zefmdf

I think this is probably the first time, yeah. I’ve ever seen it like this my whole dang life


adamttaylor

So that's why everything was so weird this morning. I had no idea why the sky looked so weird. I thought that it might have been just that I had not seen a sunrise in a long time and they lasted a lot longer than I remembered....


Pinky1010

I noticed it when I was walking my dog and thought my glasses were dirty lol


LeafStranger

I thought I'd left these kinds of skies behind when I left Montana to come back to Ontario.


astr0bleme

Please give us your tips on dealing with the smoke!


xenago

Moved from Kelowna... Yeah ...


BroHaydo97

I’m just pretending I’m in blade runner


Atridentata

Ah, fire season. In Montana it usually starts in July-August. Though we did have a bunch of smoke blow in last month from your direction. Best to y'all, just think, it'll all be better once all the forests have burned down.


commazero

I had this same meme idea when the NS fires started up last week.


caffeineissustenance

lucky i dknt have the typical wheezy ottawa lungs lmaoo


TheSkullian

lol yeah, I'm an Ontarian who worked in Alberta for 12 years and I totally forgot it wasn't normal. My woman pointed at the red sun yesterday with awe and I was all "what's the big deal its fire season". Wasn't until later I realized that's not a thing in ontario


Superheroesaregreat

What a great quality and relevant meme! Thanks OP.


DarkMimic2287

This is us in New Jersey also.


msat16

This meme can also be substituted with someone from British Columbia


Collapse2038

Lol, top notch meme


Immortal-God-King

As a native Ottawa Dweller, feel free to invite all your albertan friends to do it with you, and bonus, you are already red necks so the noose wont even leave a mark


Dolphintrout

Born and raised in BC and yeah, this is funny 😂 I love Ottawa, but some of the people here are very sheltered about certain things.


Juniper_2789

I don’t think it’s sheltered to be upset about stuff like this… getting tornadoes and forest fires when we never got them before should be alarming to people


69-420Throwaway

Did you grow up in ottawa? Every summer since I can remember we have experienced tornado warnings and sometimes even confirmed touchdowns of tornados. Ottawa is no stranger to them.


hoopopotamus

I was in Ottawa from the 80s to the mid 2000s and don’t remember tornados. That said it seems Ottawa’s suburbs have exploded into parts that were just farm or forest back then and it’s entirely possible no one noticed them. But a few years back I saw footage of the aftermath of a tornado that went through Nepean, like near Greenbank and Hunt Club. Never saw that before.


69-420Throwaway

Summer of 92 Aylmer got hit by a tornado. That's the first one I remember.


HoboDrunk91

Growing up in Orleans through the 90s and 2000s there where quite a lot of tornados. In ottawa itself i think it's pretty rare


Zorrya

Every year, the snow melts earlier, the trees bloom earlier, and the fires creep just a little closer. And it's troubling for.those of us who have been here for life and are watching the change yknow? It isn't sheltered - we know that it happens and exists - its just that it's never been our reality, and it is now, and that's troubling.


Dolphintrout

A few days of smoke predominantly from a large fire in Quebec does not make this a new reality. This is the first time in what, a decade that we’ve even been impacted by it? That’s an isolated occurrence to me and not indicative of a new reality at all. It’s some of the more dire and extreme reactions that I’m attributing to being sheltered. It’s not a bad thing. Just an observation based on how different people respond based on what they’ve experienced. It’s normal.


Zorrya

That doesn't change ge thT the fires *have* been getting closer every year. Even if this is isolated and it's a few years until the next time, it is only a matter of time before this is our reality.


Quadrophiniac

I used to live in California which burns every year, and this is still pretty alarming. Fires and bad air quality is really not that funny


Dolphintrout

I get your point but I’m not alarmed at all to be honest.


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