Posted on 12/19/2011 6:09:14 PM PST by smokingfrog
Wood burning is banned both indoors and outdoors tomorrow, Monday December 19, 2011.
Air quality in the Bay Area is forecast to be unhealthy. It is illegal for Bay Area residents to burn wood or other solid fuels in fireplaces, wood stoves and inserts, pellet stoves, outdoor fire-pits, or other wood-burning devices.
This wood-burning ban will be in effect for Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southern Sonoma and southwestern Solano Counties.
Winter air pollution is mainly caused by particulates or soot pollution from wood smoke. Smoke from wood-burning fires is linked to illnesses such as asthma, bronchitis and lung disease, and is especially harmful for children and the elderly.
For more information about the Wood Burning Rule, or to check before you burn, visit www.sparetheair.org or call 1-877-4NO-BURN.
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Right now it’s 49 degrees in the Bay area and winds are NNW @ 5 MPH.
The smoke blows away.
Light ‘em if you got ‘em. People should ignore this crapp and plead ignorance if questioned.
I’ll burn my brushpile in honor of the ban.
We HAVE to do it — for the children, of course.
/s
Throw a few tires on for me.
Ripley: I say we go out into space and nuke the place.
Sane Americans approve of this idea!
We HAVE to do it — for the children, of course.
/s
Any children not aborted, of course.
No tires around but I do have some pieces of Styrofoam insulation that will burn real nice.
Seems like the knives are getting duller and duller in Californicate!
No tires around but I do have some pieces of Styrofoam insulation that will burn real nice.
Nasty, nasty smell. Make sure the wind is right. LOL
Put us out of our ‘collective” misery./s
A while back the newspaper ran a story about the various ordinances in place in the little towns all over the county. It turned out that my township has the fewest local laws.
When questioned about it, my township supervisor said it would be pointless to try to impose ordinances because the people would mostly ignore them.
I’m fighting the urge to go all the way out there to burn a truck load of tires.
When questioned about it, my township supervisor said it would be pointless to try to impose ordinances because the people would mostly ignore them.
We’ll be seeing more of that. Bureaucrats can eat dog dung.
Yes, that is why everyone in the world caught these diseases and died at age 18 up until the middle of the 20th century./SAR I, and my siblings and cousins, grew up breathing smoke from wood fires. It was our main source of heat. Not one of us had any of the listed illnesses. In fact most of the kids I grew up with used wood for heat and most of them, probably 99.9% did not have the above listed illnesses.
This is just another effort, and one that is working in the Bay area, to control people by left wing a**hats.
Trolling for something in particular, smokingfrog?
The funny part is, that since “this” is from SanFrancisco, it is almost believable...
But it's always good to be reminded of exactly why I never spent more than 48 hours in California.
This in a state that has fires that burn thousands of acres every year.,
Production of Mythbusters has been suspended.
I’ll bet THE SMOKE PATROL is on duty. Their motto is “You can break the rules, but don’t break wind!”
“Well, my fellow city council members, a look at our forecast shows you that some cuts need to be made. In a city as big as San francisco, surely we can find some programs to trim. Let’s start with the police. What do they have?”
“They’re down to three officers and a squirrel with a radar gun.”
“Hmmmmm...seems kind of bloated to me. What’s next?”
“The Smoke Patrol.”
“What about them?”
“3,000 employees each equipped with a BMW.”
“That seems kind of high.”
“They donated a million bucks to the California Democratic Party.”
“OK. Let’s fire the three cops and give the squirrel Jerry Brown to eat.”
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