Visitors from all over the world

The number of visitors to this blog increased substantially this month. This North St. Paul wood smoke pollution blog has had visitors from more states than I care to count. I am pleased that people from all over the country are reading about the terrible air pollution in North St. Paul, Minnesota, and how our city council members are responsible for it.

I am most impressed by the number of international visitors. I've had readers from:

• Saudi Arabia
• Lithuania
• Pakistan
• Canada
• Sweden
• Japan
• Tunisia
• Germany
• Australia
• Spain
• Brunei
• Serbia
• Netherlands
• Mexico
• Ukraine
• France
• Belgium
• Kazakhstan
• India
• Malaysia
• Russian Federation
• Egypt
• Switzerland
• Indonesia
• Singapore
• United Kingdom
• Israel
• Norway

all in the past week. People all over the world are reading about how our four city council members Jan Walczak, Bob Bruton, Terry Furlong, and Dave Zick make us breathe smoky, polluted air all year around.

Wood smoke is expected in the winter. But the air pollution problem in North St. Paul is so bad that wood smoke is far heavier in the summer than it is in the winter. When you should be free to open your windows or sit outside in the spring, summer, and fall, you cannot because the air is too smoky to breathe. But come winter when it gets cold, there is far less wood smoke than during the warm months.

Shame on you city council members for torturing us with polluted air. We deserve better. People all over the planet are reading about you. You should be ashamed.