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?
Moonshine?
In rural places where wildfire isn’t a real danger, locals burn trash. My family used a burn barrel though.
Trash....happens all the time.
My guess: raking yards and burning leaves.
Just burning trash or yard waste. Or making moonshine for medicinal purposes.
When you move to an area it’s a good idea to learn about the area before you love it
I live near an Army test facility. We knew moving in that the sound of freedom includes lots of large and small house rattling explosions.
I know of some Karen’s who complain about that.
I don’t know what’s going on there, but believe it or not here in the foothills of the Sierra when i owned a home on acreage, burn season, from about October to April depending on the weather was a special time. Big burn piles are fun, simple as that
It’s a Southern thang, you wouldn’t understand.............
It’s not that rural! We got a couple of thousand people per square mile in our town!
Definitely not. The burning has been constant all winter.
And many farmers around here burn brush after clearing it from their land.
Guessing good ole APG. Some of those booms can be big.
There is some spiritualism in the Appalachians.
But it’s at least as much do to that people still roast their foods on spits in this part of the country.
Depends. Appalachia extends into New York.
You build a backyard campfire so you can sit around it and enjoy it.
Because it’s there.
They have been burning Helene debris for months. In fact, they found another dead Helene victim in a debris pile two days ago,
You’re right It’s so unnatural. We are all brewing moonshine or looking for oil so we can move to Beverly Hills. You should probably return home before we decide you have a purty mouth. We southerners are so wild.
The ash is good for the garden.
Especially if you dig up your garden layer the ash.
Well, if they were burning trash on 200-acre fields in the 19th century and the trash was broken wooden tools and discarded food, and plants and such, fine!
But these folks are burning in an area where the population density is a couple of thousand per square mile, and if it *is* trash they’re burning as people are telling me, they’re probably filling the air with God knows what kind of toxic nightmares.
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