Gettin' dirty at Bonnaroo

Did someone call for a smog machine?

Posted by Sarah van Schagen at 10:24 AM on 18 Jun 2007

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dusty Bonnaroo air

No, that's not smog. It's all the dry, dusty dirt drifting everywhere I go here at Bonnaroo. It's in my hair, covering my shoes, and stuck to every drop of sweat on my body. That I can deal with ...

The problem is that it's also in my eyes, my nose, my lungs. I came here perfectly healthy, and I'll be going home with itchy eyes, a stuffed up nose, a dry throat, congested lungs, and a not-so-sexy cough.

Roo-goers are holding kerchiefs, t-shirts, towels -- anything they can get their hands on -- over their faces and wearing sunglasses as dust goggles, but you just can't escape it.

I'm headed home today, back to the relatively clean air of Seattle. But this experience really makes me think about cities like Beijing and Hong Kong that are smoggy, respiratory nightmares most of the time. I'm getting choked up just thinking about it ...

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Dust...

Arrakis.

by feonixrift at 10:42 AM on 18 Jun 2007

replanting roo?

i'm assuming that all that bad air quality is coming from a dust bowl effect. wouldn't it be cool if they took all of the wastewater and turned it into fertlizer to restore the grounds to oxygen producing lands again?

talk about a way to offset the CO2 for the event that would (in my mind at least) be a better investment than some of the so-called credits on the market...from what i hear, its possible with a bit of ingenuity...

grm

green is the new black...

by green room media at 2:27 PM on 18 Jun 2007

it was incredibly dusty

but that's what happens when you have a drought in Tennessee and 80,000 people walking around.

by naturescene at 5:50 PM on 18 Jun 2007

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