tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post1326121344420922658..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: Drawn to the FlameGail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-20299886808979540482012-09-20T18:08:15.524-04:002012-09-20T18:08:15.524-04:00I often think it will be the nurseries that break ...I often think it will be the nurseries that break this open, because they often guarantee to replace trees that die within a year. They must already be losing money, and it's going to get worse.Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-19502848692557778792012-09-20T17:09:09.334-04:002012-09-20T17:09:09.334-04:00I have been watching my well-to-do North Shore nei...I have been watching my well-to-do North Shore neighbors replace their fallen trees. These are people who automatically buy trees that are already 15 or 20 foot tall. The nurseries are selling them dead trees. The landscape crew plants the dead trees. In the circumstance I can't say I blame the nurseries. If customers are so blind they do not know life from death by all means take the money. The money is still useful in the short term.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-41122690374144986382012-09-20T17:09:07.356-04:002012-09-20T17:09:07.356-04:00I have been watching my well-to-do North Shore nei...I have been watching my well-to-do North Shore neighbors replace their fallen trees. These are people who automatically buy trees that are already 15 or 20 foot tall. The nurseries are selling them dead trees. The landscape crew plants the dead trees. In the circumstance I can't say I blame the nurseries. If customers are so blind they do not know life from death by all means take the money. The money is still useful in the short term.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-71646305602701379102012-09-19T12:42:43.444-04:002012-09-19T12:42:43.444-04:00Keep going, Gail. Great effort.
Thanks for all y...Keep going, Gail. Great effort.<br /><br />Thanks for all you are doing,<br /><br />Steve SalmonyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-77239952100586540272012-09-17T15:43:52.269-04:002012-09-17T15:43:52.269-04:00Hard to say about your lilacs...maybe it got warm ...Hard to say about your lilacs...maybe it got warm early, and then there was a freeze that killed the buds? In general, things do not seem to be blooming as profusely as they used to, to me.Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-33885037641695916262012-09-17T15:34:02.899-04:002012-09-17T15:34:02.899-04:00Thanks Gail!
The Smog Blog looks pretty useful. I...Thanks Gail! <br />The Smog Blog looks pretty useful. I have found airnow.gov nearly useless. I have pretty much been in the habit of guessing air quality by how it looks/smells when I open the door in the morning. I'm from Alaska and about 10 years ago 6 million acres burned, so I'm familiar with that orange/pink hue that the air takes on with smoke. Thank you again. Also, none of the lilacs bloomed this year, is that normal? BadlandsAKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08166355480370327198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-29435711656114004332012-09-17T14:05:05.305-04:002012-09-17T14:05:05.305-04:00Hi Badlands,
Sorry to hear about your troubles. ...Hi Badlands,<br /><br />Sorry to hear about your troubles. Here are some links. The EPA does keep track, they just set the acceptable limits to suit industry not health.<br /><br />http://airnow.gov/<br /><br />http://apps.npr.org/fire-forecast/<br /><br />http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq/Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-47924634628492873632012-09-17T14:05:01.661-04:002012-09-17T14:05:01.661-04:00Hi Badlands,
Sorry to hear about your troubles. ...Hi Badlands,<br /><br />Sorry to hear about your troubles. Here are some links. The EPA does keep track, they just set the acceptable limits to suit industry not health.<br /><br />http://airnow.gov/<br /><br />http://apps.npr.org/fire-forecast/<br /><br />http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq/Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-30662854257665451492012-09-17T13:46:13.512-04:002012-09-17T13:46:13.512-04:00A quick hello & question, since you are talkin...A quick hello & question, since you are talking about ozone/air quality. Where can I find good information about air quality on a day to day basis? My 4 year old son has severe allergies/asthma, and I have asthma, as well. We very often have days where you can see/smell smoke from wildfires out west (We live in Rapid City, SD) but I can rarely find information on air quality due to fires. Smoke is very dangerous for asthmatics, especially children. They have put out advisories when there is actual ash and particulate matter falling from the sky, and we get wind advisories/air quality alerts at least weekly, it seems. We are in extreme drought, it was 75 degrees in January, our yard turned to dust, and the trees look as bad as those in these photos, if not worse. Oh, and none of our tomatoes produced any fruit. Last summer, we couldn't keep up with them. Also last spring/summer, our whole state was in constant flood conditions and they released the dams on the Missouri River. I've never spent an entire summer indoors, but with three small children, the heat/drought/wind/dust was unsafe. I swear the air conditioner ran for two straight months, and we are just now able to get it below 75 degrees indoors with the arrival of cooler weather. No rain anywhere in sight, though. Just a little background on where I'm at. Very scary times. Any info on useful air quality sites would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for all the work you do here, Gail. <br /><br />BadlandsAK BadlandsAKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08166355480370327198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-2587161799808258392012-09-17T13:32:44.874-04:002012-09-17T13:32:44.874-04:00Plovering, you are more than welcome to read my bl...Plovering, you are more than welcome to read my blog, and to make comments. But if you are going to make comments, at least actually read it.<br /><br />The BACKGROUND level of ozone is rising. The peak exceedances are not the issue. It's the persistent ozone that is always there, on top of which the peaks are calculated. The plants never get a chance to recover when they are exposed to constant background levels 40 ppb and above.<br /><br />Go back over this post and pay particular attention to Dr. Brain's question about ambient levels - the elephant in the room okay?<br /><br />http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012/03/something-is-rotten-at-epa.htmlGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-60931245918049860242012-09-17T13:32:43.424-04:002012-09-17T13:32:43.424-04:00Plovering, you are more than welcome to read my bl...Plovering, you are more than welcome to read my blog, and to make comments. But if you are going to make comments, at least actually read it.<br /><br />The BACKGROUND level of ozone is rising. The peak exceedances are not the issue. It's the persistent ozone that is always there, on top of which the peaks are calculated. The plants never get a chance to recover when they are exposed to constant background levels 40 ppb and above.<br /><br />Go back over this post and pay particular attention to Dr. Brain's question about ambient levels - the elephant in the room okay?<br /><br />http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012/03/something-is-rotten-at-epa.htmlGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-12868872875331059832012-09-17T13:24:23.590-04:002012-09-17T13:24:23.590-04:00Following your instructions per msg. 9/17/12, I fi...Following your instructions per msg. 9/17/12, I find ozone ppb dropping all over New England -- for the last ten years. <br /><br />http://www.epa.gov/region1/airquality/standard.htmlPLoveringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04027992777731735792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-67205511893023019642012-09-17T12:06:52.723-04:002012-09-17T12:06:52.723-04:00Your remark about the moths got me to check the li...Your remark about the moths got me to check the light by the front door. Emptying that was once a weekly chore. Had not been done for over a year. There were possibly a couple days worth (by former standards) of small moths in the bottom. So moths at 1% of what they once were. Or less.<br /><br />We leave doors and windows wide open in the evening now, when lights are on in the house. Nothing flies in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-71745160116440942942012-09-17T10:40:38.413-04:002012-09-17T10:40:38.413-04:00It's the wind! HA!
Reminds me of Haitian hil...It's the wind! HA!<br /><br />Reminds me of Haitian hillside farmers claiming rocks were poking up into their soil, making their planting difficult. <br /><br />Actually, I've heard farmers here in America say the same thing, that rocks are poking up in the fields. <br /><br />Nobody ever admits harming their environment, because then they'd have to change their ways. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-18826515001778245832012-09-17T09:07:24.032-04:002012-09-17T09:07:24.032-04:00See Plovering, this is why I like you. You are so...See Plovering, this is why I like you. You are so provocative. Check out this map from the EPA which is constantly updated for air quality in Maine.<br /><br />The green dots are for levels from zero to 50 ppb. That is designated GOOD. It goes up to 301+ which is considered hazardous, passing through moderate (51-100), unhealthy for sensitive groups (101-150), very unhealthy (201-300).<br /><br />Given that we know that the threshhold above which plants are damaged is FORTY ppb, that "good" designation is utterly useless.<br /><br />http://www.epa.gov/region1/airquality/aqi-me.htmlGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-62115802221379841152012-09-17T08:53:28.213-04:002012-09-17T08:53:28.213-04:00Plovering, HOW can you have been reading Wit's...Plovering, HOW can you have been reading Wit's End and NOT KNOW that the background level of ozone is rising EVERYWHERE?? How can you have missed the satellite images, the AQ reports? How can you not understand that ozone precursors can travel from China to California, from Ohio to Maine, over oceans and continents? Why do you bother reading? That is so basic.<br /><br />I just did a google search for Maine ozone and one of the first stories is a news video warning people not to exercise because of an ozone alert, but their are innumerable others, just look! http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article/161996/314/Ozone-forecasted-to-be-unhealthy-in-coastal-MaineGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-37349182187452823622012-09-16T22:32:36.465-04:002012-09-16T22:32:36.465-04:00Should Maine have an ozone problem?
Should Maine have an ozone problem?<br /><br />PLoveringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04027992777731735792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-13362415804287810182012-09-16T16:53:30.400-04:002012-09-16T16:53:30.400-04:00hi Gail,
in your post the woman wanting to save he...hi Gail,<br />in your post the woman wanting to save her tree said: «The couple noted that their kids played under it when they were growing up, and they have parked their cars under its branches for years.»<br />well, their cars did it, or was it their kids who will want cars too? or already have cars?<br />just watched this short video:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AkN4OOt_VM<br />love<br />michele/montrealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-633185270216417402012-09-16T16:09:56.222-04:002012-09-16T16:09:56.222-04:00It was suggested to me that all those trees dead o...It was suggested to me that all those trees dead on the beach are from wind. How did they get that big to begin with, if it's wind?Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-31904818515122082192012-09-16T15:52:03.940-04:002012-09-16T15:52:03.940-04:00Last weekend I was talking with a Masters degreed ...Last weekend I was talking with a Masters degreed professional educator about the ozone and how harmful it is to....<br /><br />"Lightning makes ozone, you must be wrong about that!" <br /><br />American denial of the consequences of their lifestyle is so strong and vociferous! I may as well have proposed eating babies or something. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com