It was smoky as hell tonight from a yard waste burner who lives a few homes down from city council member Bob Bruton. Bad luck brought the heavy smoke right into our neighborhood a distance away from the source. Wood or yard waste smoke goes wherever the wind blows it. Tonight the wind brought the very heavy air pollution into our area.
4:10 PM: No smoke. Sunny, 78 degrees, it is a beautiful day.
4:55 PM: Faint to light grass and possibly wood smoke coming in the windows. Some asshole is illegally burning yard waste somewhere. Close the windows!
5:05 PM: Light to moderate wood and grass smoke. North St. Paul sucks!
5:30 PM: Faint to light wood smoke. It is common for yard waste burners to start a bonfire then rake their grass clippings into it. I suspect this is being done.
6:10 PM: Light grass smoke. I don't know what all is being burned, but sticking my head outside to take a few breaths of air left me with a sore throat and tingling sinuses! I got a sore throat from the air pollution in North St. Paul! That's what a horrible place North St. Paul is to live. The air pollution is so bad a few breaths of it causes pain.
6:13 PM: Moderate grass smoke. Yard waste burning does not often get this heavy. I had to find the source. I found the burner a few homes down and across the street from city council member Bob Bruton's house. The burner was near the intersection of Polar Ave. & Lake Blvd. on the western edge of Silver Lake. The wind was blowing west, so I don't know if the smoke made it up to Bruton's home. That asshole Bob Bruton supports smoky air. If anyone deserves to breathe that heavy air pollution, it is a supporter of it like him. Being as far away as we are, the smoke was very heavy. It must have been even heavier for the neighbors in the path of the smoke. My throat was more sore than before from the continued exposure to the smoke. What would happen if someone was burning poison ivy along with their yard waste? You know North St. Paul's air quality is very bad when it gives you a sore throat.
6:30 PM: Faint wood smoke at this time.
7:00 PM: Light to moderate smoke of some type. I'm not sure what all is being burned.
7:10 PM: Moderate wood smoke. That's over 2 hours now of heavy smoke pollution in the air. Does North St. Paul sound like the kind of city you want to live in?
8:00 PM: A faint smoke of some type is in the air. That's over 3 hours of wood and yard waste smoke in the air already this evening and it is still early.
8:15 PM: A very faint trace of smoke of some type is in the air. Taking a few breaths left me with irritated sinuses. I can feel the burn in my sinuses. 73 degrees at this time. In a normal city that isn't shitty like North St. Paul, we would have our windows open and be enjoying the cool evening air. But you can't in this hell on earth town. North St. Paul sucks!
9:25 PM: No smoke. A reprieve from the torture of North St. Paul's hellish air pollution!
11:00 PM: Very faint to faint wood smoke. The air has been smoky with wood or grass for the better part of the last 6 hours. This is normal for North St. Paul. There is no chance of opening the windows tonight. As always, we go to bed with the windows closed up tight because of North St. Paul's normal air pollution.
North St. Paul sucks!