People Are Sharing Pics From The Hell On Earth That Is Happening In The West Coast Right Now (40 Pics)
The West Coast of the US is in dire straits. Fires are ravaging California, Oregon, and Washington, destroying everything in their path.
The views there look straight-up Apocalyptic because of the red, orange, and brown sky. Meanwhile, people are saying that the Bay Area in California looks like Mars. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think the photos were something right out of a horror or a sci-fi movie. Unfortunately, it’s reality and 2020 still isn’t pulling any punches.
Jessica Gardetto from the US Bureau of Land Management told Bored Panda that evacuation orders are no joke and that civilians should evacuate when told to do so. "Evacuations are serious and are done for the safety of the public and emergency responders." Read on more the rest of our interview with Gardetto about what the public can do to help.
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Oregon wildfires making it look straight apocalyptic
Gardetto from the Bureau of Land Management said wildfires caused by humans comprise around 87 percent of all wildfires throughout the US. "If the public can prevent new wildfire ignitions, it will really help firefighters and emergency responders. Also, if people live in fire-prone, Wildland Urban Interface areas, where wildfire could threaten their homes, they should make their homes resistant to wildfire. This will greatly improve the odds that homes can survive a wildfire and, in some cases, will give emergency responders a chance at saving more homes."
Bored Panda wanted to find out how the intensity of the fires in California, Oregon, and Washington compared to this time last year. According to Gardetto, 2019 was a quiet fire year when compared to both 2020 and 2018. "This is due to the fact that last year, weather conditions supported less wildfire ignitions and less fire growth, whereas this year, drought, hot and dry weather, winds and lighting are creating new wildfires and exacerbating current incidents."
She added: "Reducing human-caused wildfires is the absolute best thing the public can do right now! Visit www.nifc.gov to learn more about how you can avoid causing a wildfire."
Simply put - because our whole country is figuratively on fire. Unfortunately, you poor people are just another casualty on a very long list of casualties.
Exactly! Laundry Sauce: people ARE talking about the wildfires, but The tRUMP has set our world on fire and every day we are in his Path of Destruction. God save us all. Hope you manage to get out allright. Hugs
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Ummm. Everyone is talking about these wildfires. Its horrifying! But we are all talking about it. We are allowed to be concerned about more than one issue at a time.
Um, we are. My friends in Europe and Australia ask me almost daily if I'm safe and okay. PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT, you're probably not paying attention.
Scott Brynildsen, I don't think your comment "you're probably not paying attention" is very helpful since this person is probably LIVING THROUGH IT. What kind of hard-hearted, judgmental person are you to post such a mean and thoughtless statement? Delete or edit your comment now and YOU "pay attention" to the words that fall from YOUR mouth!
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We are talking about these fires in Canada!! Feeling so helpless. Stay safe.
I wish those things would stop, there's corona, australian fires, oregon and california fires, and a ton of other tragic stuff.
the country has a fake 45 who has rolled back or decimated all of the environmental protections because it fill his ego and pockets!! And those who are complicit are enabling the death of a country and planet for the sake of making more money than they will ever need...but it's ok for the people to die and lose their jobs and education and well you know the rest if you're paying any attention at all. I hope you don't choke on those lies you sold your sole (spelling correct) for...the devil (I don't believe in) returned to sender, fake 45.
People are talking about these wildfires from Glasgow Scotland stay safe x
People are talking. It takes up a greater part of the news. PS, my sister lives in Silverton.
My newspaper is covering the Oregon fires well but then again, I live in Northern California
California skies. A month until my due date and my world is red
In one month, skies will be blue, again, for you (even if it's only in your mind). Congrats and best of luck.
According to CNN meteorologist Judson Jones, the reason why the West Coast looks Apocalyptic is because of all the smoke and ash which “are acting like nature’s version of an Instagram filter.”
Jones said, “The particles in the air are refracting sunlight similar to the way small air particles do when the sun sets or rises." What this means is simple: the particles in the air scatter blue and green wavelengths (which are shorter), meaning we can only see red and yellow wavelengths (which are longer and pass through the particles).
The hot, dry weather, and strong winds are turning the West Coast into a tinderbox. Lightning strikes have also added to the overall problems in the area. As have accidents. One such case has been on many a person's lips recently.
Tried going to visit my boyfriend on my day off, had to turn around because the fires apparently opened a portal to hell
9 AM at the Oregon Coast due to wildfires 100s of miles away
The El Dorado Fire in California’s San Bernardino County that was sparked by a pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal party had grown to 10,574 acres and counting. It was 16% contained on Tuesday, September 8, according to CNN.
The BBC reports that over 2 million acres of land have burned in California. During this time last year, ‘only’ 118k acres were destroyed by fires. The Telegraph puts the current amount of land torched by the fires in California right now at 2.5 million acres.
Meanwhile, Oregon Governor Kate Brown says that hundreds of homes in the state have been obliterated by the wildfires. “This could be the greatest loss of human lives and property due to wildfire in our state's history," she warned, adding that the winds are fuelling the fires and pushing them toward towns and cities. Mass evacuations are underway.
That Witch head gave me nightmares for YEARS!! For those of you that aren't from Oregon or haven't been to the enchanted forest, the witch head is a little walkthrough thingy and there's creepy witch animatronics that talk and make potions. Idk if that's accurate because I haven't been there in years but it's a memory that has been burned into my brain forever
In Singapore, he have haze sometimes, but not as serious as this. The haze clears after a few weeks, but this will definitely take months, if not years.
My husband n daughter work in Albany at Clayton. They have to work in this!!
Oregon Cascades today. Orange smoke, 70 mile and hour winds, debris and branches all over the road. Keep the fire fighters in your thoughts
8 am and surrounded by 4 fires in the area. 2020 is holding nothing back
Well it could be worse. We could be in a zombie apocalypse. Here to hopin huh
Human race: Nooooo! you can't do any super disasters 2020: haha yellowstone go boom.
Oregon fires have moved so much ash into Northern California that the sky is almost red
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I live in the SF East Bay and these pictures really don't do what happened on the 9th justice. It was creepy scary.
Sorry, but what specifically happened on the 9th. I've heard about the fires, but don't know what was specific about the 9th.
Load More Replies... These are scary, I hope all of the people living there are okay after this tragedy.
THANK YOU! We feel for you as well with the fires you had to fight. Take care my down under friends.
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Washington state, zip 98520 3 miles from the Pacific ocean at 8 am on 9/10/20. The sun! It was even more RED than my cheap camera could show, skies are light gray, the smoky odor has drifted away though. DSCN0002-5...360b56.jpg 
I would like to think people in the future will look back on these pictures and say, "How could they not realize this was a problem?" but maybe I'm being overly optimistic about the future? :(
2020 is crazy like that, I wonder what's like in 2021. Please keep the prayers to the people who live there and be safe!
Let's hope 2021 is not like 2020. However, we can expect that on average, things around the world will get worse and worse, in an accelerating pace, due to climate change. More disasters, more migrations, more economic fallout from disasters and migrations, more civil unrest... More and more and more, and accelerating. Anyone who has voted without climate change as their foremost concern for the past 25 years has it coming, but many innocent people will suffer (millions, then billions).
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What if 2020 really is the end of the world? Like OK humanity, one of these shitstorms surely must kill you.
I live in SoCal. Our sky is improving, but still slightly yellow. My city is lucky enough to have not gotten these terrible orange skies. Stay Safe, Stay Home, and Prayers from a middle schooler in SoCal.
This has me in tears. I wish I could help, but I can't, so prayers from Houston, Texas😥
This is my home. I'm very lucky that our house is safe, but many of my friends, teachers, and classmates have lost their houses.
It will be ok we would love to send firefighters to help but Covid so just hang in there. From another Aussie
My sister lives in Oregon and she told me a couple hours ago that people only 5 miles away were being evacuated. I told her she and her family are always welcome at my house in Washington. Of course, there are fires here too, but they are about an hour driving time away.
Hey, Oregonian here. I live a few miles away from the fires and yes the red was intense and insane, but it's at least better outside. It's more of a yellowish tint and the smoke smell has gone down a lot. I don't know about other people who live closer to the fires, but for me and my area it was red for just about 2 days. Just pray for our rain to come back!
Dang, I thought things were bad here in Colorado. Geez, we're all dead.
In terms of duration it was worse in Colorado. We had been living in smoke for weeks.
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It was super red/orange just yesterday, it looked like it was 4 in the morning until about 11 am
First millions of homes are illegally foreclosed upon by criminal banks through mass fraud. Those crimes made millions of Americans homeless. Then the Covid forced millions more into default. Then hundreds of fires happen at the same time when it's not even that hot, making more homeless. If I didn't know better I'd say it looks pretty suspicious.
god is a ten year old with an ant farm ... good luck preying to that
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im grateful to not be in an evacuation zone (yet? 💦) but our air quality rating has been over 500 this weekend, my only exposure to the outside air has been when i open & close the door to let the dog out and just thAT throws me into a massive coughing fit, i cant imagine being closer to the fires or how people are still working outside or senior and people with compromised immune systems, or all the animals being exposed and/or left its all so concerning. it looked like an orange tinted silent hill outside and a little yellow ice cream truck drove our road, talk about surreal and eerie as hell. i hope everyone stays safe :+(
I've been thinking about all of the forest animals, especially birds, too
i live in ca, frigging insane 2 or 3 days ago 10am looked like 10PM
I used to live in San Francisco and it’s so heartbreaking to see this happening. I’m worried for the future.
View from my driveway here in Grants Pass, Oregon. You can see the sun... sort of... it's that teeeeny tiny little dot above my neighbor's tree. IMG_202009...be714a.jpg 
This reminds me very much of the Oakland/Berkeley Hills fires in the early 90s. I knew something was up when the light peeking around the closed curtains was orange. Don't forget to protect your lungs from permanent damage.
Well that's better than the choking smoke I'm experiencing right now -A portlander
Sending prayers for everyone involved. Can't imagine how scary it must be.
Stepping outside yesterday was dark and weird and orange and bizarre. Never experienced anything like it. I thought it was cool as hell, and took lots of photos. Today is bright yellow.
Weeeeell we did warn them. Decades and decades ago. But noooooo, they had to know better. Let's set up a UN commission to return this land to the indian tribes that once lived in harmony with it. I mean once the muricans have all burned, of course. Just clearing them out would be barbaric. Muricanic, in fact.
Weeeeell, if the "muricans" all died, you will be at war with the entire earth and me because a lot of americans are immigrants who have a green card, and although I am not American, my friends are. what you are describing (burning entire nation of people) is genocide.
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Thanks to Donald Trump nobody really gives a s**t about the USA. If you want international empathy get rid of that c**t.
I have to keep saying this, don't I? IT'S NOT ARSON. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER. IT'S F*UCKING CLIMATE CHANGE (excuse my language).
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I live in the SF East Bay and these pictures really don't do what happened on the 9th justice. It was creepy scary.
Sorry, but what specifically happened on the 9th. I've heard about the fires, but don't know what was specific about the 9th.
Load More Replies... These are scary, I hope all of the people living there are okay after this tragedy.
THANK YOU! We feel for you as well with the fires you had to fight. Take care my down under friends.
Load More Replies... Washington state, zip 98520 3 miles from the Pacific ocean at 8 am on 9/10/20. The sun! It was even more RED than my cheap camera could show, skies are light gray, the smoky odor has drifted away though. DSCN0002-5...360b56.jpg
I would like to think people in the future will look back on these pictures and say, "How could they not realize this was a problem?" but maybe I'm being overly optimistic about the future? :(
2020 is crazy like that, I wonder what's like in 2021. Please keep the prayers to the people who live there and be safe!
Let's hope 2021 is not like 2020. However, we can expect that on average, things around the world will get worse and worse, in an accelerating pace, due to climate change. More disasters, more migrations, more economic fallout from disasters and migrations, more civil unrest... More and more and more, and accelerating. Anyone who has voted without climate change as their foremost concern for the past 25 years has it coming, but many innocent people will suffer (millions, then billions).
Load More Replies... What if 2020 really is the end of the world? Like OK humanity, one of these shitstorms surely must kill you.
I live in SoCal. Our sky is improving, but still slightly yellow. My city is lucky enough to have not gotten these terrible orange skies. Stay Safe, Stay Home, and Prayers from a middle schooler in SoCal.
This has me in tears. I wish I could help, but I can't, so prayers from Houston, Texas😥
This is my home. I'm very lucky that our house is safe, but many of my friends, teachers, and classmates have lost their houses.
It will be ok we would love to send firefighters to help but Covid so just hang in there. From another Aussie
My sister lives in Oregon and she told me a couple hours ago that people only 5 miles away were being evacuated. I told her she and her family are always welcome at my house in Washington. Of course, there are fires here too, but they are about an hour driving time away.
Hey, Oregonian here. I live a few miles away from the fires and yes the red was intense and insane, but it's at least better outside. It's more of a yellowish tint and the smoke smell has gone down a lot. I don't know about other people who live closer to the fires, but for me and my area it was red for just about 2 days. Just pray for our rain to come back!
Dang, I thought things were bad here in Colorado. Geez, we're all dead.
In terms of duration it was worse in Colorado. We had been living in smoke for weeks.
Load More Replies... It was super red/orange just yesterday, it looked like it was 4 in the morning until about 11 am
First millions of homes are illegally foreclosed upon by criminal banks through mass fraud. Those crimes made millions of Americans homeless. Then the Covid forced millions more into default. Then hundreds of fires happen at the same time when it's not even that hot, making more homeless. If I didn't know better I'd say it looks pretty suspicious.
god is a ten year old with an ant farm ... good luck preying to that
Load More Replies... im grateful to not be in an evacuation zone (yet? 💦) but our air quality rating has been over 500 this weekend, my only exposure to the outside air has been when i open & close the door to let the dog out and just thAT throws me into a massive coughing fit, i cant imagine being closer to the fires or how people are still working outside or senior and people with compromised immune systems, or all the animals being exposed and/or left its all so concerning. it looked like an orange tinted silent hill outside and a little yellow ice cream truck drove our road, talk about surreal and eerie as hell. i hope everyone stays safe :+(
I've been thinking about all of the forest animals, especially birds, too
i live in ca, frigging insane 2 or 3 days ago 10am looked like 10PM
I used to live in San Francisco and it’s so heartbreaking to see this happening. I’m worried for the future.
View from my driveway here in Grants Pass, Oregon. You can see the sun... sort of... it's that teeeeny tiny little dot above my neighbor's tree. IMG_202009...be714a.jpg
This reminds me very much of the Oakland/Berkeley Hills fires in the early 90s. I knew something was up when the light peeking around the closed curtains was orange. Don't forget to protect your lungs from permanent damage.
Well that's better than the choking smoke I'm experiencing right now -A portlander
Sending prayers for everyone involved. Can't imagine how scary it must be.
Stepping outside yesterday was dark and weird and orange and bizarre. Never experienced anything like it. I thought it was cool as hell, and took lots of photos. Today is bright yellow.
Weeeeell we did warn them. Decades and decades ago. But noooooo, they had to know better. Let's set up a UN commission to return this land to the indian tribes that once lived in harmony with it. I mean once the muricans have all burned, of course. Just clearing them out would be barbaric. Muricanic, in fact.
Weeeeell, if the "muricans" all died, you will be at war with the entire earth and me because a lot of americans are immigrants who have a green card, and although I am not American, my friends are. what you are describing (burning entire nation of people) is genocide.
Load More Replies... Thanks to Donald Trump nobody really gives a s**t about the USA. If you want international empathy get rid of that c**t.
I have to keep saying this, don't I? IT'S NOT ARSON. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER. IT'S F*UCKING CLIMATE CHANGE (excuse my language).
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