Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, I spent a couple of weeks in rural Sechuan in 1998 and then the countryside was free of smog, but Fuling, the city of about 250,000 where we stayed, was very dense with soot in the air. There were two big factories in town and when I asked what they produced, I was told that one was the noise factory and the other was the smoke factory. Bob > At 07:55 AM 11/13/2005, you wrote: >>Which parts of China were you in where the smog was so bad? Or is it >>every >>industrial part? >> >>Eric > > Eric - It was everywhere! We had high hopes that getting out in the > rural areas would mean getting away from the air pollution, but it seemed > just as bad in the country. People there talked about how much worse it > is the summer and said that autumn is actually the clearest time of the > year. We did have a few clear days after rain and wind blew the smog > away, but I have lots of photos where you can't see more than a block > because of the thick haze. And it's not fog - it burns your throat and > eyes. Many of the people who worked in the streets or rode bikes wore > surgical masks. It was worse in Shanghai than Beijing, though. > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >