The air was smoky again this evening. If it isn't raining, the air is smoky every evening with very few exceptions. City council members Jan Walczak, Bob Bruton, Terry Furlong, and Dave Zick are the reason we endure this horrible air pollution. Read this post for a tabulation of wood smoke pollution by month. The city council forces us to breathe polluted air every day. All four of them have refused to do anything about this horrible wood smoke pollution problem plaguing our city making life here a living hell. Why would elected leaders force the people they represent to breathe smoky air every day? Are they sadists intent on inflicting punishment on us?
Do you want to breathe smoky air when you are in bed at night? You better if you want to be happy in North St. Paul, MN.
12:35 AM: No wood smoke. Woke up. Fresh air!
2:30 AM: Fresh air.
5:00 AM: Fresh air continues.
7:10 PM: Faint trace of something in the air. I can't say it is wood smoke. I don't know what it is. Sunny, 78 degrees at this time. A beautiful late summer evening.
8:00 PM: Faint trace of something remains in the air.
9:00 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke. The air is smoky once again. None of our immediate neighbors appears to be burning. The burner could be blocks away with the wood smoke coming in on the breeze. Wood smoke can easily travel a half-mile or more if conditions are right. If the air isn't smoky, it is a miracle in this town. Going to sleep.
11:00 PM: No wood smoke that I can detect. Light sulfur odor in the air. My nose was stuffy when I woke up. I stuck my head out the back door and took several deep breaths of the air. I could not smell wood smoke but could definitely smell a sulfur odor coming from the industrial section of town.
Thanks for highlighting the air pollution level of North Saint Paul, Minnesota. People planning to move to this area should be careful about the air pollution level as well as asthma and allergy alerts which could be known from the different websites that provide such informations.
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