I am sure that most of you have heard the news of the horrible wildfires that Moscow has been experiencing the last few weeks....
Add to that, they are also having the hottest temperatures ever recorded there...the average temp this time of year should be 75, but the temps have been 100+ for the last 50 days....
To make matters worse, at this time of year, Russia has over 20 hrs of daylight, and there is not much air conditioning there either...
People are dying from the heat and from the smoke inhalation of toxic chemicals from the wildfires...
I heard on the news last night that the pollution levels are 600 TIMES ABOVE NORMAL, and what is considered safe...they said it amounts to the equivalent of smoking over 8 packs of cigarettes per day!!!...
Mark has been in St Petersburg, Russia studying for the summer...his classes ended Friday and he had to vacate the dorms, and his next stop was Moscow...
I tried to get him to change his plans, but he had nowhere else to go....
The only way I have to reach him is by email, and he doesn't always have WiFi access...
As a mom, I feel absolutely helpless and I am so worried about my son...there is nothing I can do to 'make it all better'...I just have to put Mark's health and safety in God's hands and pray that he gets out alive...
Even if he has no immediate ill effects from inhaling all that 'poison' now, who knows what might show up years later?...just think of the 9/11 1st responders here in NY where I live, who are dying NOW from the toxic gases they inhaled THEN...
Thanks for letting me vent my worries and frustrations to my C5 family...bad enough that I have my friend Mike deathly ill and he could die at any moment, but now I have my son in 'harm's way'.......
Good thing I have my 'HWAY STR' and C5 as a good distraction from the real world...
