2:00 AM: A very faint trace of wood smoke lingers in the air.
5:00 AM: The air is fresh!
9:45 AM: Faint grass smoke coming in the windows. Somebody is burning yard waste. I am not sure who.
10:00 AM: The burning continues. It smells a little like burning paper now.
10:25 AM: Light grass smoke. It is getting more intense. I am still not sure who is burning. It could be someone blocks away.
2:10 PM: Faint grass smoke. It did not last too long.
It was another nightmare from hell evening of wood smoke pollution. Wood smoke lasted well into the morning hours. We are prisoners in our own home! We can't go outside! We can't open our windows! Our only crime is living in this city. North St. Paul is hell on earth!
5:00 PM: Faint smoke from the burning of something. I do not know what is burning. It does not smell like grass, wood, or meat grilling. It did not last too long. Sunny, 74 degrees.
8:15 PM: No wood smoke yet. There will be. Without rain, there almost always is wood smoke in the air every evening. Polluted air and high property taxes are two things you can count on in this town.
9:00 PM: Moderate wood smoke at this time. The air is very smoky. The nightmare from hell is beginning.
9:30 PM: Moderate grass and wood smoke. Burning wood and burning yard waste. This is how our city council makes us live. I have been complaining to the city for two years about this horrible wood smoke pollution. The city council refused to address our concerns and sided with the small number of households that smoke up the air we all must breathe.
10:00 PM: Wood and grass smoke pollution continues.
10:30 PM: Faint wood smoke. It died down. Hopefully it is done for the evening.
10:45 PM: Strong wood smoke. This is inhumane! The wood smoke is very heavy. You cannot breathe this air! Just sticking your head out the door leaves you smelling like wood smoke.
Midnight: Moderately strong wood smoke continues.
The air was still faintly smoky at 7 AM. That makes 10 hours of polluted air.
Do you want to live in a city like this? Thanks for this wood smoke pollution nightmare goes to the four city council members -- Jan Walczak, Bob Bruton, Dave Zick, and Terry Furlong -- who make us breathe toxic polluted air almost every day. I have explained to them that wood smoke contains cancer-causing compounds and soot, ash, and tar. I have explained to them that elderly residents and children with asthma can have serious health problems because of this city's wood smoke pollution problem. I pointed out that many households have to leave their windows closed at night and run their air conditioners on cool summer evenings because the wood smoke is so bad. They did not care. Two years later, they still do not care. Wood smoke is hard on people like us who are healthy. What is it like for a 4-year-old kid with asthma?
Wood smoke is bad for your health and it smells terrible. You might think that for over $2000 a year in property tax you would be entitled to breathe the air on your own property. Not in North St. Paul. Cigarette smoking was banned in bars and restaurants. But somebody a quarter mile away or more can have a large bonfire and smoke up your air so bad you cannot sit outside or open your windows and that is perfectly legal. That is not right.
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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!
