The @NWS forecast said, "Strong winds aloft are keeping the smoke elevated but as winds weaken later this morning and afternoon, smoke will begin to settle."
Two @Stanford researchers referenced a 2019 study which showed that when levels of particulate pollution spiked in communities around the United States, the death rate of people 65 and over also increased, as well as emergency room visits.
While doctors know that poor air quality and air pollution can exacerbate the issues for those with respiratory illnesses, they still don’t know if air pollution (incl. wildfire smoke) can worsen #COVID19 symptoms or make someone more likely to catch it.
Pets are also vulnerable to the effects of wildfire smoke.
It’s best to keep pets inside and the windows closed as much as possible while air quality is bad, as well as keep an eye on older pets with heart or lung problems.
At the height of his fame, someone killed chef Masa Kobayashi at his San Francisco home. sfgate.com/unsolved/artic…
Chef Masa Kobayashi always walked home from work. After dinner service at Masa’s, his eponymous restaurant, he’d help lock up for the night before a 10-minute stroll up Bush Street to his apartment at 1111 Pine.
On Nov. 13, 1983, he got home around 2 a.m. He waved goodnight to a building manager and headed up to his third-floor flat. Shortly after Kobayashi got home, a tenant called down to building services to report sounds of a possible fight.
Brendan Fraser was in attendance at last night's screening of the new Darren Aronofsky film “The Whale” at the Mill Valley Film Festival, and he had some words of apology for the city of San Francisco and the broader Bay Area. #MVFF45 sfgate.com/streaming/arti…
In an interview before the film, Fraser recounted an incident that took place during the filming of the 1997 comedy “George of the Jungle.”
Set and filmed in San Francisco, the movie features an iconic scene showing Fraser (as George) dangling from the top of the Bay Bridge 🌉
Though it’s revered today as a technology milestone and a pioneer of the World Wide Web, Andrew Roderick describes @FogCam as a student project that started in the university’s instructional technologies department in the fall of 1994 and just never left.
"It was just a little pet project that developed a life of its own," Co-creator Jeff Schwartz said. "People liked it so we kept it going."
But in August of 2019, to the surprise of many, they announced they were going to pull the plug.
California’s high-speed rail system is easily the most ambitious, and controversial, infrastructure project in North America today. California voters narrowly approved the initiative in 2008. sfgate.com/bayarea/articl…
Construction so far has been limited to a 171-mile section through the sparsely populated Central Valley, where California’s High-Speed Rail Authority has spent more than $1.4 billion buying property — a process that has served as a major source of the delays.
Earlier this year, initial plans were approved for two Bay Area segments, one from the Central Valley up to San Jose and another to SF. Rail officials expect to spend roughly $8 billion buying dozens of residential units and more than 100 businesses that stand in the way.
If you looked out your front window and saw a squirrel stretched out spread-eagle and motionless on your lawn, you’d likely think it met some untimely end. Really, though, it’s probably just splooting. sfgate.com/bayarea/articl…
With temperatures soaring above 105 degrees in many parts of the Bay Area during this record-breaking heat wave, lots of people have noticed squirrels exhibiting this strange behavior.
Splooting is a reaction to extreme heat. If you’ve got a fur coat and you’re stuck in 107-degree weather, you don’t have a lot of options to cool down. For squirrels and other furry mammals, splooting is one of them.
A mysterious and controversial billboard warning people against moving from California to Texas looms over passersby in LA and San Francisco this week. sfgate.com/local/article/…
"The Texas miracle died in Uvalde. Don't move to Texas," the billboard reads, alongside the sinister image of a hooded figure and a crossed-out "Don't mess with Texas" slogan. The San Francisco billboard is currently up near the corner of Folsom and 7th Street.
Images of the billboards have been posted across LA, San Francisco and Texas subreddits over the last week, causing some anger and debate.