Vog = volcanic fog

Scrabble players and crossword puzzle junkies, today I am your new best friend! I share with you a new (at least to me) “-og” word: vog. Due to heavy volcanic activity on the Big Island during the last four-plus weeks, vog is currently blanketing the islands. From the untrained eye it just looks really, really smoggy, almost smoky. It’s made up of sulfer dioxide and other particles spewing from the Kilauea Volcano and it is wreaking havoc on just about everything. Flowers and crops are at risk, not to mention people with weakened immune systems, kids, etc. I can even feel it a little bit (stuffed nose, a little harder to breath) and I breeze through the change in seasons and don’t have any health and/or allergy problems. Stay tuned, I hope to have a picture of it posted within a few days.