2:45 AM: Moderate wood smoke. Very smoky air continues. No chance of opening the windows until dawn or later. Back to bed.
4:30 AM: Light smoldering wood smoke continues. The air reeks! The air smells terrible. You do not want this stinky air in your house unless you live in a garbage house pigsty with rotting food and pet droppings all over the floor that smells worse than smoldering stinky wood smoke. If you live in a garbage house, the poor air quality in North St. Paul may be an improvement to your indoor air quality. Not for the rest of us. Back to bed.
7:15 AM: A very faint smoldering smokiness continues in the air. It is not enough to discourage us from opening the windows. Finally, we can start living like human beings again! Until the wood smoke starts again later this evening, that is. If we are lucky, we will get ten to twelve hours of mostly fresh air -- with the exception of burning yard waste -- before the air pollution starts again.
Do you want to live in a city like this? Can you imagine breathing smoky air almost every day of your life, all year around, with winter being the least smoky season? Do you want to raise children in air pollution so heavy it infiltrates your home even when you have all your windows closed? That's how you will live your life in North St. Paul, MN, thanks to the idiots on the city council who make us breathe this filthy polluted air.
It is a beautiful Sunday. The temperature at noon is 72 degrees and it is sunny. That means people will probably be burning yard waste this afternoon and more wood smoke this evening. If it isn't raining and the temperature isn't too hot or too cold, people will be burning yard waste and wood most days.
4:20 PM: No wood or grass smoke yet. It is gorgeous outside. Sunny, 79 degrees, and breezy. We will sit outside this evening for a while until the wood smoke starts. We try to enjoy the little fresh air we get around here.
5:30 PM: No wood smoke. Some faint grill smoke is in the air. No complaints about that.
6:20 PM: A very faint wood smoke is in the air at this time. It's already starting.
6:28 PM: Very faint to faint odor of burning paper coming in the windows. Someone may be using paper to start a wood fire or possibly a charcoal grill. If it gets any stronger, we'll have to close everything up. We'll probably have to do that soon anyway. 77 degrees and beautiful except for the little bit of wood and paper smoke in the air.
6:45 PM: A very faint smoke of some type is in the air. I can't tell what it is. A smoke-free evening would be nice. Not much chance of that happening.
7:30 PM: No smoke. The air is mostly clear.
8:00 PM: No smoke.
8:30 PM: No smoke where we live. But I did find some wood smoke when I went out looking for it. It was faintly to lightly smoky at the intersection of Helen St. & Poplar Ave. The smoke extended from the cemetery south to almost Navajo Rd. On the other side of the block it was faintly smoky along Lake Blvd. from Swan Ave. up to Poplar with very faint to faint wood smoke along the southern edge of Silver Lake at 19th Ave. & Lake. I never have a problem finding smoky air in this town. Somebody somewhere is always burning. If it isn't raining and isn't too hot or cold, somebody will be burning wood. I do not know if the smoke was produced by a bonfire or recreational fireplace use. I could not find the source of the wood smoke. The temperature at the time was in the low 70s. There is no need to use a fireplace for home heating. But in this town, if it isn't nailed down and is combustible, people burn it.
9:00 PM: No smoke where we live.
9:20 PM: Very faint to faint wood smoke. Now it is getting smoky. Every night the air is smoky in this nightmare city! There is no breeze at this time. The smoky air is not making it inside.
10:00 PM: Faint wood smoke outside. Now it is time to close the windows. This is our evening ritual. The air gets smoky so we have to close up the house. Instead of enjoying the pleasant air, we are forced to live as prisoners in our own home.
10:30 PM: Very faint wood smoke at this time.
11:00 PM: The air is mostly clear.
I never imagined we would be living like this.
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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!
