From: "Gary Britt" 

Its not pollution's fault if the CITY has expanded, and you no longer live
in the country.  It sounds like in your mind you are comparing what the air
was like in the real countryside with what the air is like in the city next
to an airport.  If its the city with an airport, it ain't country no more


Gary

"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> > Well I didn't live there so can't say from personal experience, but its
> > possible you've forgotten how steel mills and factories could pump out
the
> > pollution in the 50s and 60s before controls began to be legislated.  In
> > Pittsburgh the soot was so thick that it would cover cars, people, etc.
from
> > the factories and coal burning, etc. in the early 1900s.
>
> 50's and 60'? There was nobody here then except in the cities. Ok I might
> believe it was bad downtown then but not out here in the country. Now you
take
> off from middlefield airport and you can see a brown haze over all the
land,
> and it gets worse as the day goes on.
>
> I don't think it's from factories, I think it's from cars and trucks and
> construction and houses.
>
> You don't really see it from the ground, but on a calm day if you take off
in a
> small plane or helicopter you REALLY notice it. And it wasn't near that
bad 10
> years ago.
>
> It's the same way south of the blue ridge mountains in NC, soon as you go
over
> those mountains you see this muddy brown haze hanging over the land.
Wasn't
> there 10 years ago.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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