Posted on 11/03/2023 9:35:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A noxious smoke plume from swamp fires in the marsh is blowing over the New Orleans area, causing air quality to plummet, according to air monitors throughout the metro area.
The smoky air from the peat fires, which smells like burning rubber, is irritating to the eyes, nose, throat and lungs.
Burning peat, which is the decaying vegetation underground, releases a large amount of carbon and produces tiny particles known as PM 2.5 that are harmful to health.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Out here we just call it "smoke."
[...which smells like burning rubber...]
Probably a pleasant change from the usual NOLA smell of piss/vomit and dumpsters filled with rotting seafood.
grocery store masks are useless to effectively filter out microscopic smoke particles, even if they fit tightly, which they don’t ...
however, industrial 3M respirators with P100 filters do work ...
living in colorado a few years ago when the entire west coast was on fire, we could barely breath due to continuous months of forest fire smoke ... we wore these masks whenever we were outside and installed 5” MERV 13 furnace filters, running the furnace fan in manual mode at all times ...
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