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Posted on 12/24/2009 1:06:11 PM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- You can celebrate Christmas but you won't be able to burn the Yule Log on Friday in the Bay Area. That's because the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is prohibiting the burning of wood on Christmas Day.
Friday will be the season's third winter Spare the Air day. Officials are blaming what they call "stagnant weather conditions.
“Air quality is unfortunately forecast to be unhealthy on Christmas Day, and the Air District is taking steps to protect public health by issuing a Winter Spare the Alert,” said Jack Broadbent, executive officer of the Air District in a written statement. “Please remember this holiday season that children, the elderly and those with heart and lung problems are most susceptible to the harmful effects of wood smoke.”
During an alert day, it's illegal to use fireplaces, woodstoves and inserts, pellet stoves, outdoor fire pits, or any other wood-burning devices. The only exception is if burning wood is the only way you have to heat your home.
Stay tuned to KRON 4 and KRON4.com for the latest on air quality conditions over the holiday weekend.
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The environment Nazis are at it again, they will never go away.
It warms my heart without a fire to see the leftists turn upon themselves.
Having spent many,many years in San Francisco, I can equivocally say that November thru February are the cleanest months due to the continual storms coming in from the Pacific.
Liberals, this is what happens when you give up your freedoms to the STATE.
Next it will be your healthcare!!!!
How about a scene from the movie BECKET...
King Henry and Thomas Becket are out in a rain storm. They go to a hovel in the woods where Henry demands fire and warmth.
Becket: You will find no wood here sire.
Henry: Why is that?
Becket: Each hovel is allowed two measures of wood a year. One stick more and they are hanged.
Henry: My edict?
Becket: Your edict sire.
This is an administrative agency “law.” — The fourth branch of government not authorized by the Constitution.
It’s also a supra-government agency not authorized at the city level — the “Bay Area Air Quality Management District” — that somehow has control over the citizens of the Bay Area and has the power to enforce its rules under color of law.
It’s an abomination. As is much of government in California.
The Libs can burn Yule logs; they just paint an American flag on them. Can’t go against the 1st amendment, that would be unconstitutional.
I’m using my fireplace for the first time today. Got to use it before Illinois joins the act.
I feel your pain; I would absolutely hate to live in California (and unless I’m ever stationed there, I will NEVER live there). But, it’s up to the voters of your Republic to change your laws or state’s Constitution or move away with your tax dollars. However, the Federal Constitution has zero say in state matters; it only governs the relationship between the states and the federation thereof. That’s why each state has it’s own Constitution (which governs the relationship between the state and its citizenry).
I can’t believe you can celebrate Christmas at all, in San Fransicko.
One thing I like to change in my original post is that, since the 13'th Amendment (coincidentally and unlucky number) which was ratified about 76 years after the Bill of Rights, the Federal government freed itself to intervene within states and directly with the people. The USA was meant to be much like the EU with each state being sovereign governments that entered into agreements via the Constitution. However, the federation became a government of its own after the Civil War which we now call the Federal Government. The same thing is happening with the EU at a more rapid pace.
Snuffing out the life of a baby in the womb on the false pretense adverse medical consequences to an unwilling mother or ignoring the fact that there are NAMBLA practitioners identifying themselves at public events voicing their opinions about their civil rights and agenda, however, is perfectly lawful in San Francisco.
You think that's bad?
Feds have forbidden me to practice my required rituals for Donkey's years.
I'm supposed to cut the beating heart out of a Liberal Senator and a Liberal Representative on each solstice and equinox, and feed then to a pack of grey wolves.
Having lived in SF Bay Area since 1965, I can attest to the fact that every year all the forest and brush fires from Gilroy to Petaluma and to the Sierra foothills dump [millions of?] tons of smoke and ash all over the SF Bay Area- Ban that you BAAQMD* jerks!
*Berzerkely`ed Asinine Autocratic Quangoized Moronic Dunceheads
They’ll have to ban my burritos first.
Marry Christmas.
oh dear...did I just blow a fuse on my central heat ?? It isn’t coming on for some reason, but I am old, and don’t know much about these things - electricity can be dangerous, you know - I guess I’ll just have to throw a few more logs into the inside fireplaces to stay warm this weekend until I figure it out. Being Christmas and all, I doubt I’ll get a repairman out until Monday, even if my phone was working, but I seem to have lost the blasted battery to it. Must be around here somewhere but I just wouldn’t know where to start looking for it. The house is a bit of a mess with wrapping paper and cookies and presents all about. Maybe the dog ate it. Oh well, such is life. burn baby burn
Merry Christmas!!!
Enquiring folk may wonder what kind of effect a douglas fir 2 by 4 upside their idiot heads might have.. and may get a chance to find out at this rate.
For the sake of a few, many are asked to kick tradition to the curb..
I agree that many air pollution outfits are typically rife with inept, over-reaching, corrupt, petty tyrants; and I share the emotional reaction of wishing civil disobedience.
But, just maybe there actually IS an inversion, with stagnant air. What then? Is your act of civil disobedience worth people getting sick or dieing? How many? A dozen? A hundred?
Just food for thought.
DG
If you know where they live, leave little doggie logs.
Weather Underground only reports ozone pollution at your link...ozone pollution is primarilly a summer problem (Sun/Temp. acting on NOx/VOC's). The winter pollution problem is primarilly "PM 2.5" (smoke)(particles around 2.5 microns in dia.) in inversion areas (especially the central valley of Calif.).
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-ozone-pollution.htm
http://www.valleyair.org/aqinfo/forecast.htm
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