12:15 AM: Moderate to strong wood smoke continues. The air continues to be extremely smoky. The air reeks. There is no chance of opening a window for a little fresh air. There is no chance of stepping outside for a breath of fresh air because there is none!
2:10 AM: Moderately strong wood smoke continues. Very smoky air all night long
4:00 AM: Moderate wood smoke continues. How long is this going to last? The air has been smoky for most of the past nine hours. I turned on the TV to get the temperature before heading back to bed. 51 degrees at this time in St. Paul.
6:00 AM: Faint wood smoke continues. It is a smoky, smoldering smell. The air reeks! You do not want this stinky air in your home. Cigarette smoke is less offensive than this.
6:45 AM: Very faint smoldering wood smoke continues.
7:00 AM: A very faint trace of smoke remains in the air. The air is mostly clear at this time. Thank God! The nightmare is ending. If we are lucky, we will get ten to twelve hours of fresh air before the wood smoke starts again.
Do you want to live in a city like this? This is how we live our lives more often than not. It is a nightmare.
12:44 PM: Faint to light grass smoke. Somebody is burning yard waste. I could smell the smoke coming in through the windows as I was reading the paper. The smoke did not last too long.
1:13 PM: Faint grass smoke coming in the windows on the breeze. It did not last long.
2:15 PM: Very faint wood smoke at this time. Somebody somewhere is burning wood. The smoke did not last more than a couple of minutes. The burning stopped or the breeze shifted direction. Often in North St. Paul people will burn wood then throw their grass clippings on top of it. They use the legal wood smoke pollution to hide their illegal grass burning. Or they could be burning brush.
It was another smoky hell of an evening in North St. Paul, MN. When isn't the air smoky? If it rains or is hot during the evening hours we might not have wood smoke. Otherwise, the air is smoky every evening in this nightmare town.
5:00 PM: No wood smoke. 70 degrees.
6:00 PM: No wood smoke.
7:00 PM: No wood smoke.
8:00 PM: Faint wood smoke at this time. Close the windows.
9:00 PM: Light wood smoke.
10:00 PM: Moderate wood smoke. The air is very smoky at this time. Horrible smoky air. Do you want to breathe smoky air every day of your life? North St. Paul sucks!
10:30 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke. It's still good and smoky outside. Off to bed.
11:50 PM: Light wood smoke continues.
When I got up again around 2:15 AM there was a very faint smokiness lingering in the air. Do you want to live in a city like this? Do you want to be a prisoner in your own home?