I never thought I would say this, but the air in Honolulu is bad today. Very bad. It was bad yesterday. It will be bad tomorrow.
No, I don’t live near a landfill. The garbage men are not on strike. The sewer hasn’t backed up.
It’s not smog. It’s vog. Volcanic smog, from the Big Island is in the wind and the rain and it’s all over Honolulu these days. You can smell it. You can taste it. Those with asthma complain about it. Those without asthma complain about it.
Residents and tourists around Kilauea Volcano and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island have been evacuated because the fumes are dangerous to human health. Health officials tell us that the air on Oahu is well within federal guidelines.
It’s time to revisit those guidelines. Paradise is awful today.
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