"The wind shifted." Sure. (Via The Corvallist.)
Posted by Jack Bogdanski at August 26, 2006 01:37 PM | TrackBack (0)This happened several times each summer in Eugene in the late 60's early 70's I lived there as a kid.
It was common on field burning days to have a layer of soot on windowsills and on top of fences. Sometimes a temperature inversion occured, and the nasty smoke and soot got trapped over Eugene for days. Pretty ugly.
Posted by: Robert Canfield at August 26, 2006 10:27 PM