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(Ed's childhood, a few short months ago.)

anthracite anecdotes off

Things sure change.
The Silicon Valley in '62 had vast expanses of orchard.
Very pretty.

By the '70s the air was all but unbreathable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

It's gotten a lot better since, but a truly rural person
still would not call the atmosphere delightful.

--Winston

Too much silicon, no doubt. Silicosis is nasty.

Occasionally we get a dose of AsH3 which really
smells awful, especially during a long winter
inversion. It's probably perfectly safe though.



--Winston

Jeez, we don't have anything like that anymore. New Jersey ain't what it
used to be...thank God.

It used to be that you could drive up the NJ Turnpike past the refineries
and chemical plants in Elizabeth and hope you didn't gag. Now, we no
longer
trust the air. You can't even see it.



When you drove down to the shore on a hot Friday night there would be an
orangy mist hanging over everything and you felt like you had to cut your
way through the mist and pollution. It was impossible to hold your breath
from exit 15 at Newark until you reached Rahway. When i go there today I
almost miss the stuff, but not quite.

John

The only thing good about it was that it kept the people with weak
constitutions from moving in. Those people in Kearny, Harrison, etc. are
*tough*.

When I moved to Michigan I had to drive through Gary, Indiana every once in
a while to keep from getting homesick...

--
Ed Huntress