Eerie Photos Emerge From San Francisco as Wildfires Rage in California
California has been hit by devastating wildfires, forcing mass evacuations and producing smoke that has caused all sorts of complications. Wednesday morning, residents of the Bay Area woke up to eerie orange skies where smoky clouds had blocked out the Sun.
Check out some of these shots:
San Francisco 09.09.20 pic.twitter.com/QdqUtKiqOT
— Zneha (@mithrilmaker) September 9, 2020
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a...uh...red channel. pic.twitter.com/cqnrAvQvNu
— Ian Brown (@igb) September 9, 2020
good morning, hell pic.twitter.com/5PpkARmukL
— brian wickman (@wickman) September 9, 2020
The Golden Gate Bridge.
— Drew Tuma (@DrewTumaABC7) September 9, 2020
Almost 9 in the morning.
It’s pitch black outside.
Unreal. pic.twitter.com/US2aB9uXOw
Life on Mars. Wildfire smoke blankets San Francisco at 8:15 am. pic.twitter.com/gHwvw0Zsyb
— Kenji Matsuoka (@kenji_matsuoka) September 9, 2020
10:15 am. The sun has died. Long live the sun. pic.twitter.com/iKs2BD5SAX
— Kenji Matsuoka (@kenji_matsuoka) September 9, 2020
I thought my alarm clock was set wrong. 8AM, and dark as night in San Francisco. #Smoke #CaliforniaFires #AirQuality #BayArea pic.twitter.com/Suif1IbWy7
— Jonathan Bloom (@BloomTV) September 9, 2020
San Francisco Civic Center, 9 am - Under the smoke cloud. Unedited. pic.twitter.com/Ciyv4Pejk0
— Ayşe Naz Erkan (@naz_erkan) September 9, 2020
These are actual photos without any filters of Wednesday morning in San Francisco Bay Area. Smoke plume from the recent wild fires creating dark orange glow. Seems like Mother Nature is shooting for the next season of Stranger’s Thing. pic.twitter.com/bjIbiqispy
— Chetan Prabhu (@chetan_p88) September 9, 2020
Things are so bad that the PGA Tour was forced to turn the lights on at the practice range and putting green at 10 a.m. at the Safeway Open in Napa:
Nearby fires/smoke have forced PGA Tour into using lights on practice range and putting green, even though it's 10 a.m. in California. https://t.co/tvDskrIUJ2
— Sean Zak (@Sean_Zak) September 9, 2020
As a native Californian, I can tell you that this is serious. I know the images are crazy and kind of cool, but what's going on here is not. Fire season seems to get worse and worse every year and there doesn't seem to be anything anyone can do to stop it. More than 2.6 million acres have burned so far and that includes parts of cities, homes and entire lives going up in smoke.
Send some good thoughts our way.