Cough Cough: One More Thing To Worry About
That’s right: Smog! Philly is no L.A. but it’s by no means immune to the grimy, forbidding trappings of citydom. And smog, if you didn’t know, can wreak havoc on our city’s asthmatics, right down to those of us hacking away here at Philebrity HQ.
But that doesn’t exactly put a human face on it, eh? (Zing!) Leave that to Inky, though for some reason they filed this story under Entertainment (somebody up there must be a big Bill Callahan fan).
[Smog is] especially bad in places that have a lot of people and a lot of cars, and are downwind from factories and power plants. And the particular weather patterns here push the Philadelphia region high on various rankings of bad locations for asthmatics.
This summer – the season when ozone forms – the 18-county region monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded federal standards for smog on 15 percent of the days. They were labeled Code Orange on the agency’s air quality index, which recommends that active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
One more reason to never ever ever leave our pajama’ed coccoon. Who wants to order Chinese?
