Desolation

This photo is exactly what the power plant looked like from the freeway. Real people have to work there. I can not imagine. It is coal and not nuclear.

Xi'an has many heating plants and several power plants and it looks like this around all of them. The soot coming out of the chimneys is filthy.

All of Xi'an was an ugly haze of air pollution that morning. As soon as we got just blocks north of this power plant, the air improved dramatically.

On the other hand, we had our third amazing dust storm here day before yesterday. While it is amazing outside, you would not believe how filthy our apartment is. Even closed up it is not really closed up and everything is covered in dust and dirt.

Cough. Cough. China.