[Snorlax94]

At least in my experience, there is a strong cumulative effect.

Even though the air was pretty bad that first weekend of the Oregon State game, I felt fine. I was at a wedding that day and the air didn’t bother me and I felt comfortable walking out onto a deck at night, nearby.

But each day, I felt worse and by Wednesday I felt miserable — headaches, fatigue, coughing, susceptible to illness, and just that general unpleasant feeling of not being able to go out and get exercise for a week.

So I think postponing the game was the right decision by far. It’d be one thing if Berkelwy had an AQI of over 200 one morning, it cleared up, and was under 200 well before gametime. It’s another thing to live and train all week in that air, to be weakened in it, then to go play if the aqi hits 200. I bet the fans felt the same way — after a week of that air, I wouldn’t want to be outside for a game just because the aqi dipped to 199 for a few hours.

Man, I hope we can get this addressed somehow. This is two years in a row heavily impacted by smoke and I do not want this to become the new normal.

[Snorlax94]

At least in my experience, there is a strong cumulative effect.

Even though the air was pretty bad that first weekend of the Oregon State game, I felt fine. I was at a wedding that day and the air didn’t bother me and I felt comfortable walking out onto a deck at night, nearby.

But each day, I felt worse and by Wednesday I felt miserable — headaches, fatigue, coughing, susceptible to illness, and just that general unpleasant feeling of not being able to go out and get exercise for a week.

So I think postponing the game was the right decision by far. It’d be one thing if Berkelwy had an AQI of over 200 one morning, it cleared up, and was under 200 well before gametime. It’s another thing to live and train all week in that air, to be weakened in it, then to go play if the aqi hits 200. I bet the fans felt the same way — after a week of that air, I wouldn’t want to be outside for a game just because the aqi dipped to 199 for a few hours.

Man, I hope we can get this addressed somehow. This is two years in a row heavily impacted by smoke and I do not want this to become the new normal.