Haze

It starts about four in the morning, slowly drifting toward the earth as the cooling air condenses. It's smell lingers on your clothes hours after it makes it's departure. It has caused two deaths on I-95 in a bad accident involving three semi-trucks and a little car. Major roadways have been closed, causing delays in morning commutes.

I'm writing about the smoke from the wild fires here in central Florida. Thousands of acres are burning or are currently burning.

Part of the problem has been our lack of any substantial rainfall, part of the problem is all the dried out dead vegetation from the hurricanes of 2004, and part of the problem is dumb people that throw burning cigarettes from the car as they go down the road.

So far the fires are not as bad as the ones from 1998, but It's getting close to it. There is some fear that when we do start getting rain it will be in the form of thunderstorms, which will bring the lightning. Since we live in the lightning capital of the world, that is a very real possibility.

It was really difficult to breathe Monday morning, the thick smoke crept right into my car, and gave me a huge headache. Luckily the smoke lessened the further South I drove.

We need rain........................