First Ozone Alert of the season

[RecycleMichael]

Tomorrow, August 2nd is the first ozone alert day of 2007.

Please try and help keep OUR air clean.

Don't buy gas in the morning. Buy it tonight if you are on empty.

Avoid any automobile trips that you can. Combine any trips and do them as late in the day as possible. Bus rides are only fifty cents tomorrow. Carpool if possible.

Don't operate any gasoline-powered equipment like lawn mowers or weed eaters.

For more information, go to:
http://www.ozonealert.com/

[Rowdy]

A little off topic but I find it ironic that there was an article recently talking about how illegal it is to blow grass clippings from your lawn into the street.  I drive all over Tulsa and see workers blowing the grass into the streets all over the place.

[lsimmons]

Illegal, really? I wish someone would inform my neighbors.

[sgrizzle]

You know they want people to carpool, but best I can tell, only like 50 people out of the 3/4million tulsa metro residents have signed up here:
http://www.green-traveler.org/

[cannon_fodder]

Its also illegal to rake/blow leaves in the street.  It clogs the sewers, among other things.     For some reason people don't seem to realize that most of those leaves end up in my damn yard after they blow them in the street.  Jerks.

I remembered to bring my lunch so I didnt have to drive to go get it.  Yay me.

[Breadburner]

quote:Originally posted by lsimmons

Illegal, really? I wish someone would inform my neighbors.

Might want to inform the City while your at it.....And Union High School.....

[NellieBly]

This morning the channel 8 helicopter was hovering over I-44. Maybe they should not be allowed to fly on Ozone days. It would at least be a nice gesture.

"No live traffic reports today because it's an Ozone Alert Day."

Or maybe they were trying to catch someone carpooling.

[rwarn17588]

Reel mower in the garage. Check.

Hybrid car that's filled up every two weeks. Check.

Solar panels on the roof. Check.

I guess I'm covered.

[DwnTwnTul]

Took the bus to work today for 50 cents.  It was actually kind of fun for a change.

[deinstein]

Were the buses very full?

The air looks brutal today.

[jne]

What's with the dust?!  Last night I was walking the dog and there was hella halo of dust from every light source.  Looked like I was wearing some dirty specs.  It was thick!

[AMP]

What happened to the Free Bus Rides on Ozone alert days?

On the day the masses arrive via jet airliners to Tulsa and rent a few hundred cars to drive around for the PGA, if any of those days are are Ozone days, should the golf course subside from mowing and the people attending ride the bus or car pool?

Wonder if they have stopped mowing around town and at Southern Hills for the Ozone Alert Day?

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by AMP

What happened to the Free Bus Rides on Ozone alert days?

They couldn't afford for them to be free anymore:
http://ozonealert.com/bus.htm

[Rowdy]

Yea!  Hot and nasty Ozone-ish weather for the PGA crowd.  I'm sure they will love it.

[RecycleMichael]

Thanks to many of us doing our part, Tulsa did not violate the ozone standard yesterday or today. There is no ozone alert for Saturday.

Feel free to return to your normal lives.

By looking at the forecast for the next week, I think we will be OK. The wind forecast calls for the wind to die down a little late in the week so we might have another alert day called.