Big day of interviews with the Ovechkin clan
It's coming....
Meanwhile the wildfires are surrounding Moscow. Utro.ru reports that the traffic is very slow because the visibility is only 100 yards at most. Germany has closed its embassy and consular section in Moscow. According to radio station "Ekho Moskvy" Austria, Poland and Canada are also evacuating their personnel and their families from the capital of Russia.
NY Daily News:
Wildfires continued to spread throughout central Russia Saturday as smog consumed Moscow, raising health concerns for residents of the Russian capital.
290 new wildfires were reported in the last 24 hours, and weather forecasters said that Russia's heat wave would continue for several more days.
Meanwhile, pollutants in the Moscow smog have risen to dangerously unsafe levels. carbon monoxide levels are 6.6 times higher than acceptable, and tiny invisible particles from the fires are present in concentrations 2.2 times higher than normal levels, according to state air pollution monitoring service Mosekomonitoring.
The smog, which can be seen from NASA space images, has crept into homes, business offices, and even the underground Moscow metro.
"The situation is truly extreme. People are in circumstances under which they should not have to live," Russian doctor Ivan Yurlov told the Kommersant daily.
NBC Nightly news is showing the reports from Moscow on wildfires for the second day in a row.
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I can't wait for Aly's report on her interviews with the Ovechkins. I wonder if she will ask Ovie and his parents any questions about how the Russian paparazzi and tabloids have been treating him.
The Moscow air looks terrible in the posted photo. I hope Ovie decides to at least leave the city to continue his training elsewhere. Better yet, he should come back to the USA to resume training in DC. Maybe his parents will accompany him to escape the awful pollution.
I think he should go to cool green Gavle and train at Brynas rink with Nicky.
Or even to Siberia and train with Sasha.
The problem is: all the flights are cancelled.
Could he go east to Siberia and take flight from there, or all over cancelled? What about train to east?
...eek, the fires are even as far as Krasnoyarsk, but I don't assume as much smoke. Maybe they can train with Amur? It probably clear there.
It's sad that Russia is having so much trouble with fires and everything. Fingers crossed that it can be cleared up soon enough, and people are alright after. Already so many deaths, can only imagine other health problems becoming from smoke and smog.
Ovechkin and other people in general should be careful. Go east! lol Make Eastern Siberia populated for a few weeks, yes?
As Anonymous suggests, I hope Ovie can find a way to somehow escape Moscow, by train or by car, and catch a flight to get away from this awful pollution. I hope for everyone's sake the fires can be controlled to minimize the casualties and suffering.
Oh man, with the drought problems and fires, it's got to make the people develope worry lines.
Best of Luck, Russia but you always pull through hardships so maybe my luck isn't required.
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