Burning yard waste on Easter Sunday is pretty common. We are enjoying the smell of burning grass again this Easter. Do you want to invite your family over and have them outside breathing heavy yard waste smoke? North St. Paul is a horrible place to live. I wish we never moved to this shitty city.
11:00 AM: No smoke. There was no smoke earlier.
1:45 PM: Faint to light smoke of some type. I am not sure what it is. If it is food, somebody is burning their Easter dinner to a lump of charcoal. This isn't cooking odors. This is burning.
2:25 PM: Moderate grass smoke. Again this Easter, some asshole is burning grass. Sunny, 58 degrees, and beautiful except for the heavy yard waste smoke!
We endured burning grass smoke for Easter 2009 and had burning paper and wood smoke for Easter 2010 as well. I was not documenting the North St. Paul air pollution problem in 2008 at the time of Easter. I would not be surprised to find that it was smoky that Easter as well. One or more households likes to burn on Easter Sunday. You cannot even enjoy a holiday with family in this stupid nightmare city because somebody is always burning something!
Trust me when I say this: you do NOT want to live in a city like North St. Paul, MN. It is a HORRIBLE place to live. If you buy a home in this city, you will be sorry!
We enjoyed more burning yard waste this evening. Heavy air pollution on a daily basis is one of the joys of living in North St. Paul, MN.
4:00 PM: No smoke. Fresh air for now.
5:15 PM: No smoke. 58 degrees, sunny, beautiful.
6:00 PM: No smoke.
7:30 PM: No smoke.
8:20 PM: No smoke.
9:05 PM: The air is not fresh at this time. Whatever is in the air is not strong enough to determine what it is.
9:25: Light to moderate grass smoke. Somewhere not far away somebody is burning yard waste. Again. Yard waste smoke usually does not get as heavy as this. Somebody is illegally burning grass under cover of darkness. This is not uncommon. We've experienced burning yard waste at 1 AM in the morning before.
North St. Paul is a nightmare.
10:20 PM: Light to moderate grass smoke continues. Last check of the evening.