[ID: A series of tweets by @/Jane Prester that read,
āIf you are trapped inside by the smoke and watching your air quality steadily decline- here is somethung you can do right now to make things slightly better.
Get every spare pot/pan/container/bucket you have and fill them halfway with water, place these everywhere in your house you have the space to safely do so. The idea is to create as much watery surface area as possible- the water will gradually absorb smoke particles and clean the air. Itās small, but if you have enough surface area it can make a *very* meaningful difference over 2-3 hours.
Another thing you can do is run a hot shower until your bathtub is 1/2 filled up- leave the batroom door open. The rush of humidity into your living space will knock many of the smoke particles down onto the floor. (Do this every few hours as needed as needed).
I know how it looks but this set up has kept the air quality in my bedroom basically normal for the past 3 days. Itās an improvised solution- but itās one that works surprisingly well and doesnāt require much in the way of materials.ā
The end of the series of tweets is followed by a picture of many containers of water and a fan, domonstrating the set up described. /END ID]
Take bedclothes, towels or whatever big piece of cotton cloth you have, soak them, wring them slightly so they do not drip too much and hang them up around the house. It has the biggest surface area, not only making the air more humid, but the smoke particles also get caught on the wet cloth and are taken out of the air. It is even better if you can hang them over windows and other openings where draft gets into the house(and with it smoke) and it will catch the particles right away. If you got a garden sprayer where you pump it with air and then can spray for a longer time, you can re-wet the cloth and also the walls. If the walls can take it getting wet, they also will be a great way to get dirt out of the air and get the humidity up to make smoke particles drift to the floor. Mop the floor(and the walls if possible), that also helps.
