Monday, May 20, 2013

Sunday 05/05/2013 Air Pollution

It was a beautiful spring evening ruined by yard waste burning.  Every damn day in this horrible city people are burning.  Every day the air is smoky when the weather is nice.

5:00 PM:  No smoke.  Sunny, 66 degrees, beautiful!

6:15 PM:  No smoke.  There is a home burning yard waste in the area.  None of the smoke is making it down here.

7:15 PM:  No smoke.

7:44 PM:  Light to moderate smoke from burning grass.  Close the windows!

7:54 PM:  Light to moderate wood and waste smoke.  I can't say what all is being burned.  It reeks!

8:45 PM:  Faint yard waste smoke continues.  Why can't these asshole yard waste burners hurry up and get their burning done quickly so we can open our windows again?  I can see smoke rising from a second house in the area off in the distance.  The smoke is not coming our direction from either house.  There must be a third burner we are getting our smoke from.  There are two or more residents in the area burning at this time.


9:45 PM:  Light to moderate wood and waste smoke being burned.  It stinks!

11:00 PM:  No smoke but the air is not fresh.

None of our neighbors around us burn.  If the smoke is this heavy here, I shudder to think of how heavy it must be living next door to it.

North St. Paul sucks!