Still in Salt Lake
By Rocky Thompson on February 1st, 2007
After snorting salt water for five days in a row to clean out my sinuses a little, the inversion in Salt Lake finally lifted and I can breathe. Not that it matters, the smog will start getting comfortable the moment the jet stream shifts a bit. It’s ironic that the two things I hate the most about Salt Lake City are so closely related. When you drive through the city, you hit every traffic light. The city’s on a perfect grid, so timing these lights wouldn’t be a problem. The city times them to make you stop and start every block, which produces more car pollution than just driving through lights, which compounds the inversion (smog). On the bright side, I guess I’m not in Vail.
…or in Duluth, MN where we will hit a high of -2 with wind chills in the -20’s. Yes, that’s a minus sign in front of the two. So, crusty smog boogers or air that sucks every living bit of moisture out of your body in .3 seconds. You choose!
[...] When people say, “Make it Rain!†I assume they’re throwing stacks of $1 bills on strippers dancers, but the Chinese government has different intentions. They’re going to seed clouds in Beijing before the Olympics to make it rain to improve air quality and prevent showers during the games. Salt Lake City should do the same thing for the Winter Outdoor Retailer, that inversion gets fierce. [...]