Ozone alerts and breathing

Colin

It sounded like Scott didn't really believe Rym when he said he was having trouble breathing while out rollerblading during the ozone alert. I grew up in Los Angeles during the 60s and 70s and can attest to the fact that it is very hard to breathe during ozone alerts.

During the 60s and 70s, the air was God awful. Being stupid, punk kids at the time, my friends and I would go home and try to swim, ride bikes, play football, etc. Our eyes would become bloodshot. Before long, it would literally hurt to try and take a breath. We'd cough and wheeze like someone who smoked two packs a day. God, we were stupid. BTW, to this day, schools out here are forbidden to let kids go outside and play on days of high level ozone alerts.

tuttle88

I've never heard of ozone alerts, in Australia we just get burnt the shit up. The type of suncreen you have to use not to get burnt has chemicals that when I read them out to my scientist friends makes them shudder, and beg me to stop.

Apreche

It sounded like Scott didn't really believe Rym when he said he was having trouble breathing while out rollerblading during the ozone alert. I grew up in Los Angeles during the 60s and 70s and can attest to the fact that it is very hard to breathe during ozone alerts.

During the 60s and 70s, the air was God awful. Being stupid, punk kids at the time, my friends and I would go home and try to swim, ride bikes, play football, etc. Our eyes would become bloodshot. Before long, it would literally hurt to try and take a breath. We'd cough and wheeze like someone who smoked two packs a day. God, we were stupid. BTW, to this day, schools out here are forbidden to let kids go outside and play on days of high level ozone alerts.

I was not denying the fact that he was having trouble. I was questioning whether or not it was actually caused by the o-zone or if it was a psychological. It's possible that if Rym didn't know about the alert he might have had an easier time.

Ametto

I sincerely think it's Rym's allergies that's making it hard to breathe outside. You know with the plant sperm in the air and such.

Rym

I was not denying the fact that he was having trouble. I was questioning whether or not it was actually caused by the o-zone or if it was a psychological. It's possible that if Rym didn't know about the alert he might have had an easier time.

That's most likely not true. I've been very physically active for most of my life, and very little will stop me from going out. I've got a good grasp of when my body is in trouble. I'll run through almost any amount of pain or discomfort, and only actual danger or severe injury will stop me.

Yesterday, I got barely a quarter-mile before I was grasping for breath. I couldn't blade more than a few hundred feet at a time, and even resting I had a hard time breathing. It wasn't like asthma, which I had as a youth, where you can't get enough air into your lungs. I was breathing deeply and fully, it just wasn't having any effect.

It definitely wasn't allergies. The worst effects they ever have is a stuffy nose and possibly watery eyes: they never affect my lungs.

Colin

When I was kid, I never listened to the news or read the paper to check the ozone forecast for the day. I can guarantee you that I knew when we were having one by the time I went out to play though. I suspect the same would be true with Rym.

Rym

Heat wave incoming. I intend to continue biking to work even if there are ozone alerts, so we'll see how that goes. ^_~

Apreche

I got the official Weather Underground app for iOS. It has alerts for weather advisories and such. It kept beeping all day about a heat/ozone advisory. I turned it off because it was annoying. Biked 30 miles-ish. No problems.

gomidog

Today it seemed to be good during my biking, but I remember trying to run a couple miles with Rym last summer during a heat wave and between the heat and the ozone, I really had trouble.

Apreche

Today it seemed to be good during my biking, but I remember trying to run a couple miles with Rym last summer during a heat wave and between the heat and the ozone, I really had trouble.

Running is a lot harder. That's why I don't do that!

Jack Draigo

Air quality alert here in Louisville but its the fucking Ohio River Valley, we've got more allergies per square mile than all of New York. State.