While we wait, @SenatorLeahy took us out to the balcony to see the sunset:

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5. Where's here? Just curious. South coastal

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Oregon has a surreal tint to it’s late afternoon sunshine the past couple days. Can’t see it but there’s definitely smoke in the atmosphere.

We experienced what you describe with the catastrophic Hollywood and Archie Fires in the west side Cascades last September. The whole southern coast was smoked in for almost two weeks — the first time we’d seen that in the 32 years we had lived here.