Read the horrors of living in North St. Paul, MN. Burning sinuses, nausea, headaches, sore throat, shortness of breath, if you are healthy you can experience all of these maladies in this town. If you have asthma or respiratory disorders, North St. Paul's heavy air pollution could be DEADLY. Smoky air almost every day of your life in this polluted nightmare of a town.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Saturday 08/21/2010 Air Pollution
We experienced a miracle! There was no wood smoke this evening where we live. A Saturday night with no rain and no wood smoke is something we do not see normally. It was not too warm for a bonfire this evening, but the humidity was as high as it could get. KARE 11 Weather (channel 11.2) reported a humidity level of 100% in Lakeville. It was muggy in the Minneapolis - St. Paul area. The temperature at 5:15 PM was 84 degrees. It was a very nice evening with the temperature dropping into the low 70s by 11 PM. The air was not fresh all evening, but no wood smoke could be detected. By 8:30 PM there was a very faint unpleasant odor of something undetermined in the air which continued until the last air quality check at midnight. Periodic checks of the air during the day did not find any smoke from burning grass in the air. We sat outside for more than an hour this evening until the mosquitoes forced us inside. Mosquitoes are a nuisance, but it is better to be forced inside the house by those natural pests than by unnatural smoky air. Every day should be free of wood smoke as this one was. Smoke-free was the way the air in North St. Paul, MN, used to be a decade ago.