*related=https://videosift.com/video/Los-Angeles-briefly-as-the-Bladerunner-backdrop

Los Angeles briefly as the Bladerunner backdrop has been added as a related post - related requested by newtboy.

Stimulus checks put to good use.

And its air quality went bad from them!

On the fourth, yes, it actually did:

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-jury-is-in-personal-fireworks-alone.html

Interesting, but not surprising.

Fireworks (and bbqs) took LA air from poisonous to deadly on the fourth. It was already pretty ruined on the third. Last I read living there was like being a heavy smoker on the lungs. As I recall, the LA basin air quality was the main reason California enacted our own emission standards decades ago. That was my point, not that fireworks don't pollute, but that LA air quality is legendarily awful.

@newtboy, LA air may be bad, but it's much better than it was back in the day.

The last time I was there there were wildfires filling the entire valley/basin with thick smoke. That was gawdawful.

25 years ago when I went it was still 1/2 that thick and brown with no fires. Ugh.