Thursday, June 26, 2008

Game Off!

The image here may be a little hard to read...but the AQI in downtown Sacramento is now 177. It is officially "unhealthy." The official league message machine says the 8:30 and 9:30 games are canceled.

The games probably would have been canceled sooner, but the sensor at T street appears to have stopped working at 1:00, when the AQI was only 115 (technically "unhealthy for sensitive groups"). So, the league proclaimed the air quality was "good." That of course was before the inversion layer settled in on the valley and forced the smoky air close to ground level. At 7:00 the sensor finally updated and it was at 177, well above the threshold for unhealthy.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cough. Cough. Sheesh, I can barely breathe. I mean, how are we (check that, all the teams) still walking? One hour of SOFTBALL in that air would surely decimate anyone. Sure glad the Slugs avoided that Chernobyl-like atmosphere. Way to go Slugs! While us stevedores, longshoremen, harlots, and vassals will suffer years of painful emphysema, I take solace in the fact that only us ragabash will suffer. The Slugs, with their breath right strips, humidifiers, and photocatalytic oxygen systems march on!

-Howard Roark

Anonymous said...

The 8:30 game was played as scheduled. The 9:30 game would have been too, if the Slugs had bothered to show up.