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Yeah, so I truncated my morning walk today. Usually, I'd try to take a longer route to get to my newspaper/grocery-shopping in the morning, but the smoke is still in force here in Ottawa-Gatineau.

We have a working air conditioner, and also two air purifiers working in specific rooms in the house for various reasons. The newest of the purifiers was thanks to cumulative effort re: Air Miles reward points. I need to find where I can buy replacement filters for this one, and probably soon.

Date: 2023-06-07 10:20 pm (UTC)
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I've run my Corsi-Rosenthal box in my bedroom for a solid month now. It's been bad in Minnesota, so I'm sure it must be worse in Canada where the various fires are actually burning. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/06/06/minnesota-air-quality-this-year-is-off-to-its-worst-start-on-record

Date: 2023-06-09 12:36 pm (UTC)
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I duct-taped together a Corsi-Rosenthal box last night. My (probably inaccurate) Ikea air quality meter showed it dropped the particle count from 12 to 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E2%80%93Rosenthal_Box

Date: 2023-06-09 02:23 pm (UTC)
armiphlage: Ukraine (Default)
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Maybe tape a spare bedsheet or pillowcase over a fan? Even if it doesn't get the finer particles, keeping the coarse ones out of your lungs might help.

Date: 2023-06-09 08:48 pm (UTC)
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Thanks for posting your numbers. I don't have any way of measuring at my place. It's heartening to see that a DIY solution can make such a dramatic difference. :)

Date: 2023-06-10 06:17 am (UTC)
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We had to experience something similar in 2010, when dry peat bogs were burning in the vicinity of Moscow.

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