Oh, and as for the "wicked bad" reading, I think all those years of living in Boston may have influenced your memory. As the LA Times reported:
The measurements drew widespread attention last November, the first time a reading for fine particulate matter went above 500 micrograms per cubic meter, about seven times the U.S. standard for "acceptable" air quality.
The embassy ended up reporting that off-the-charts reading as "crazy bad." (Embassy officials say a computer programmer with a sense of humor embedded the language in the program linking the monitor to Twitter without realizing it would ever get used.)
The embassy quickly deleted the tweet and replaced it with "beyond index," but the fanciful description stuck in the imagination.
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Date: 2011-11-04 09:02 am (UTC)