So yesterday my boyfriend, Danny, informed me that there was an “orange alert” concerning air quality in Memphis due to the fires in Georgia.
Me being, well, ME, I mentally rolled my eyes and kind of went on with stuff.
Well, this morning I woke up with a sore throat. I’m thinking this is the reduced air quality, because while I felt really crappy this morning, as though I was coming down with a fever, now I’m just tired, with itchy eyes and an itchy throat. And a headache like WHOA. Seriously, I wasn’t aware that my EARS could ache along with a migraine.
It doesn’t help that there’s apparently a fire in Bartlett (though I can’t find a news source, a friend of mine came directly from that area to meet me for lunch, and she had to be re-routed – she saw smoke billowing from an area close to the gym she visits), and there’s a decidedly large haze coming from that area, which is maybe 5 miles away from me while I’m at work.
So who in the Southeast could go for an area-wide 3-day-long rainstorm right about now? Show of hands? Anyone?
Raises both hands and two feet somehow!!!
From the burbs of Atlanta
It’s pretty bad here…I can’t IMAGINE what it’s like living down in that area of the country right now. I’d carrying a wet rag over my face all day long.