Well, I grew up in Los Angeles county, I never really lived too far from LA and had been in the actual city of LA probably hundreds of times. I moved to Oklahoma, and then when I came back, now living closer to LA than ever (I practically am in LA) I really noticed something I NEVER noticed before...smog. Lots of it. Now, this isn't news to me, I just never realized there was so much of it that you could see it with the naked eye...but I've pretty much grown used to it again I guess...or I thought I did anyway. I remember when I came back up to my room at midnight last night, the sky was crystal clear and you could see like all the lights of LA...it was beautiful.

But then...to my utter horror and disbelief, I woke up this morning and the sky looked like this (all taken from right outside my residence hall):









Now, I've been to Chicago, Illinois which is bigger and is like, the largest transit district in the world, and it's NOTHING like this...so why is LA like this? I really don't understand and it's really quite sad because on the few days that it ends up being clear, like last night, it's really, really beautiful.

So yeah is there smog where you live and how do you feel about it?