Good call!
"I'll be watching you."
Posted on 04/03/2025 5:00:47 PM PDT by dangus
So not too long ago, I moved to Appalachia. For the most part, it's great. Except my wife and son both have been having persistent allergies and lethargy because the locals are CONSTANTLY burning fires in their backyards. They look like campfires: they're not in picnic grills or brick ovens or smokers, but there's always some sort of firesite. They're left unattended almost always.
Can anyone tell me what's going on? My wife thinks it's some sort of folk spirit-cleansing ritual, but these people are all supposedly Christians. Her other notion is its for health, but having the air constantly stink of fire can't be healthy. What gives?
when I was a boy in the 50s in the country we’d burn house trash in a were screen burn pit. Cans and all...
>> As to lung cancer risk factors, modest older houses in the South often relied on wood cooking stoves and traditional fireplaces. Both generated smoke and pollutants in household air, especially before electricity became widely available. <<
I grew up in a home heated by a wood-burning stove. That fire smelled sweet. Probably not great for you, but burning wood is natural. Last few days, these fires have smelled horrible.
>> In addition, regulation and practice in the South long tolerated higher levels of cancer causing pollutants from incinerators and coal plants. <<
Y’all are gonna put together which state I’m talking about, but they don’t rely on incinerators and coal plants around here at all. The funny thing is that I grew up near a massive incineration operation, and it never smelled so damn much as this... but there’s a big cancer cluster around it anyway.
Isn’t it cool? One day I was working on my house, standing on the ladder step they tell you not to step on when a whopper of an explosive WHOOMPH’d.
Yea, that got my attention.
At our last house, we were two blocks from a trauma center with a railroad crossing just down from that. Throw in the Air base five miles away and, well, you get used to it.
Good call!
"I'll be watching you."
Many believe that smoke forces ass holes to leave the area
It’s better than leaving all the trash in a pile in your backyard!
It worked really well- it would rip through burnables in minutes- just had to stir it once in awhile as the ash built up
Up around the North Carolina-Virginia line there were so many downed trees on the roads the state still has burning sites for the crews to bring the trees.
>> It’s better than leaving all the trash in a pile in your backyard! <<
Burning pressure-treated wood with arsenic, cyanide and copper azole so I breathe it into my lungs? I’d much rather they leave it as trash.
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