6:00 PM: Light wood smoke. Jerk neighbor down the street who used to burn every day last summer is finally joining in on the burning. I think this is his first time all year. Smoke is blowing right into my yard! The jerk doesn't have any smoke in his yard. It is all blowing into our yards! We breathe the smoky air, he doesn't!
The temperature is about 63 degrees at this time. Not so cool that people can't burn wood for fun fun fun! Gotta burn that damn wood! Pollute the air for fun fun fun! Can't find anything better to do with your time! Burn burn burn in North St. Paul! Burn that friggin wood like it's going out of style! We don't want to breathe, anyway. Breathing is highly overrated, is it not? Really, those elderly people don't need to breathe fresh air, do they? Let's make them all shut ins and force them to seal up their houses every evening so a small number of people can burn wood for recreational purposes!
And don't get me started on those annoying children with asthma or those neurotic people with respiratory diseases. How dare they think they should have the right to breathe fresh air?
And you people with allergies who experience great difficulty and inconvenience because of wood smoke, too bad for you. You can't have fresh air because the rights of burners to burn for fun are more important than your right to breathe fresh air. If you don't like it, don't breathe!
6:30 PM: Heavy wood smoke. Horrible. Modern people should not have to endure smoky air like this because one inconsiderate jerk feels the need to burn wood recreationally. Why should I and my neighbors and those 1/2 a mile downwind have to breathe smoky air, dear Mayor and city council members? Why?
7:30 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke. Not nearly as smoky as before. Could the jerk be done burning for the evening?
8:00 PM: Extremely heavy wood smoke. If you stuck your head directly over a very smoky burning log, that is what the air outside smells like. Or if you can imagine yourself hung upside down like a sausage in a smoke house, you will get the idea of how smoky it is outside at this time. I am not going to dare step outside to see if it is the same jerk burning, because stepping outside for even a few seconds will leave my clothes reeking of wood smoke! I just took a shower. I am not going to take another one. You really cannot breathe that air. It is not suitable for human lungs. It burns your sinuses. This air in North St. Paul is unfit for human consumption!
8:30 PM: Extremely heavy wood smoke continues. Looks like it may rain. I hope it does. Then jerks can't have recreational fires! Air will be fresh and breathable like it should be all the time!
9:30 PM: Still moderately smoky outside. How can anyone on the city council think that people want to breathe air like that? Where is the leadership in this city?
At times I may show how annoyed I am at the living conditions in this city on this blog. I apologize sincerely if I go off the deep end a little bit. But you cannot imagine the frustration of living in a city that has smoky air almost every day. I did a good job documenting the smoky air nearly every day last year. Take a minute to read the blog and see for yourself how smoky North St. Paul is and how horrible living here has become in recent years.
I spoke to someone today who said that he's planning to fix up his home to sell it. He doesn't want to live in North St. Paul any more. Why? Because of two reasons: smoky air and crime. I don't think crime is that bad in this city. The Subway on 7th St. near downtown North St. Paul was robbed this week and a possible suspect fired shots at a Maplewood police officer who tried to pull him over. That may have affected his perception of crime in the city. But one thing is for certain: the air is very smoky in this city nearly every day and the mayor and city council have the authority to do something about it and they must!
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The air is smoky from burning wood in North St. Paul, MN, almost every evening. It is a nightmare. What used to be a nice place to live has become a living hell.
WARNING: If you buy a house in North St. Paul, MN, you will regret it! It may be the biggest, most expensive mistake you ever make. You will breathe smoky air almost every day of your life in this town. This is not an exaggeration. The wood smoke in this town gets heavy and gets heavy often. When you want to get out of this dump of a town, how many people do you think are going to want to buy a house in a city where heavy air pollution every night is normal and clean air is rare? This blog gets thousands of visitors every year. The word is out: North St. Paul is a horrible place to live!
Fresh air is very rare around here. If you are considering moving to North St. Paul or buying a home here, I strongly recommend that you do not do it no matter how good of a price you get. The only way you will be happy in this town is if you love breathing smoky air almost every day. North St. Paul, MN, is a horrible place to live because of the smoky air!
Burning wood, grass, leaves, paper, cardboard, and sometimes plastic, construction materials, and chemicals, if it is combustible it gets burned in North St. Paul and you are going to breathe it.
The air was smoky 25 out of 31 evenings in July 2009. We had 37 hours of continuous wood smoke in the air Aug. 29th - 31st. There was wood smoke in the air 19 consecutive evenings from Aug. 21st to Sept. 8th. It rained heavily on Aug. 20th, providing the only relief we got from wood smoke for almost three weeks.
Is this a good way to live? No. It is a horrible way to live. Take it from someone who knows. Breathing smoky, polluted air every day is misery.
Every day in this city several people are having recreational fires. Every evening the air is filled with the stench of burning wood. I am one person sick and tired of breathing smoky air every day. Is it too much to ask to be able to breathe fresh air in your own home?
Who is responsible for this wood smoke nightmare? The four city council members are responsible. Council members Jan Walczak, Bob Bruton, Terry Furlong, and Dave Zick have refused to do anything about this wood smoke problem. They don't care if you have a child with asthma. They don't care if you have to live like a shut-in because the air is so polluted. They don't care if your sinuses burn because the wood smoke is so heavy.
Our four Council members have defended the rights of a small percentage of households to burn wood daily over the rights of all the rest of us to breathe.
You have no right to breathe under Walczak, Bruton, Furlong, and Zick. Burners have the right to burn wood 49 hours a week recreationally. The rest of us have no rights at all.
If you are considering purchasing real estate in the city of North Saint Paul, Minnesota (55109), factor this blog carefully into your decision. Buying a home in this city means that your kids will breathe smoky air while playing in the yard almost every day. Your baby will breathe smoky air in her crib should you leave the windows open around your house. If you leave your windows open you will wake up in the middle of the night choking on smoky air.
Perhaps worst of all, your utility rates will be high because you will have to run the air conditioner instead of leaving the windows open on a cool summer evening. You have no other choice because almost every night the air is too smoky to breathe in this city. Consider this blog your warning.
North St. Paul, Minnesota, is a wonderful community other than the wood smoke. If we could restore fresh air like we used to enjoy, life would be happy again. But that is not going to happen any time soon.
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The air is smoky from burning wood in North St. Paul, MN, almost every evening. It is a nightmare. What used to be a nice place to live has become a living hell.
WARNING: If you buy a house in North St. Paul, MN, you will regret it! It may be the biggest, most expensive mistake you ever make. You will breathe smoky air almost every day of your life in this town. This is not an exaggeration. The wood smoke in this town gets heavy and gets heavy often. When you want to get out of this dump of a town, how many people do you think are going to want to buy a house in a city where heavy air pollution every night is normal and clean air is rare? This blog gets thousands of visitors every year. The word is out: North St. Paul is a horrible place to live!
Fresh air is very rare around here. If you are considering moving to North St. Paul or buying a home here, I strongly recommend that you do not do it no matter how good of a price you get. The only way you will be happy in this town is if you love breathing smoky air almost every day. North St. Paul, MN, is a horrible place to live because of the smoky air!
Burning wood, grass, leaves, paper, cardboard, and sometimes plastic, construction materials, and chemicals, if it is combustible it gets burned in North St. Paul and you are going to breathe it.
The air was smoky 25 out of 31 evenings in July 2009. We had 37 hours of continuous wood smoke in the air Aug. 29th - 31st. There was wood smoke in the air 19 consecutive evenings from Aug. 21st to Sept. 8th. It rained heavily on Aug. 20th, providing the only relief we got from wood smoke for almost three weeks.
Is this a good way to live? No. It is a horrible way to live. Take it from someone who knows. Breathing smoky, polluted air every day is misery.
Every day in this city several people are having recreational fires. Every evening the air is filled with the stench of burning wood. I am one person sick and tired of breathing smoky air every day. Is it too much to ask to be able to breathe fresh air in your own home?
Who is responsible for this wood smoke nightmare? The four city council members are responsible. Council members Jan Walczak, Bob Bruton, Terry Furlong, and Dave Zick have refused to do anything about this wood smoke problem. They don't care if you have a child with asthma. They don't care if you have to live like a shut-in because the air is so polluted. They don't care if your sinuses burn because the wood smoke is so heavy.
Our four Council members have defended the rights of a small percentage of households to burn wood daily over the rights of all the rest of us to breathe.
You have no right to breathe under Walczak, Bruton, Furlong, and Zick. Burners have the right to burn wood 49 hours a week recreationally. The rest of us have no rights at all.
If you are considering purchasing real estate in the city of North Saint Paul, Minnesota (55109), factor this blog carefully into your decision. Buying a home in this city means that your kids will breathe smoky air while playing in the yard almost every day. Your baby will breathe smoky air in her crib should you leave the windows open around your house. If you leave your windows open you will wake up in the middle of the night choking on smoky air.
Perhaps worst of all, your utility rates will be high because you will have to run the air conditioner instead of leaving the windows open on a cool summer evening. You have no other choice because almost every night the air is too smoky to breathe in this city. Consider this blog your warning.
North St. Paul, Minnesota, is a wonderful community other than the wood smoke. If we could restore fresh air like we used to enjoy, life would be happy again. But that is not going to happen any time soon.
Tell others about this blog!
