[gonzo]

"...In the ‘50s I lived in So CA in a home about 1.5 miles from the San Gabriel Mtns. There were many days in the summer months we could barely see the closest mountain from our neighborhood due to smog, it was terrible and so bad our lungs would actually hurt..."

Well, you lived in the foothills, pal, and the constant temperature-inversion trapped all the automotive and Industrial crap. You only got relief when the Santa Anna winds blew that shit into the desert.

"...Not all things in the ‘70s that the states and the EPA did were bad, they were responsible for many needed improvements. The problem is that for the last 20 or so years they've gone to the extreme and have had the backing of the enviro wacko movement. They now need to disappear..."

I agree that the EPA needs to be reined-in, but remember that So-Cal still has that inversion problem, so plug all the chimmleys ............................................ FRegards

[musicman]

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[jazusamo]

Yep, we did have an inversion layer problem and they still do down there. The Santa Ana winds blow from the desert and blow the crap out to sea but don't start until the fall, usually Oct and go to Dec normally, they're no help in the summer months.

There are umteen times the autos down there now as there were in the 50s, 60s and 70s but regulations for autos and industry have cleaned the place up tremendously.