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What in the hell is in the air in Iowa that is burning my nose and throat? (Original Post) rurallib Aug 2023 OP
Canadian fired ? Fullduplexxx Aug 2023 #1
Canadian fires are still quite bad. viva la Aug 2023 #2
nope - weather.gov shows the are clear, air now.gov has our measurements below 50 rurallib Aug 2023 #6
This is the month in my county they're doing lots of mosquito spraying viva la Aug 2023 #17
Do they still spray for mosquitos? rurallib Aug 2023 #20
Yiz were candyasses. Just breathe it in? Shiiiit. When we was kids, we would get on our bikes 3Hotdogs Aug 2023 #23
Well Chi67 Aug 2023 #3
Fertilizer. 2naSalit Aug 2023 #4
Isn't it a bit late for fertilizer? rurallib Aug 2023 #8
Maybe it's insecticide. 2naSalit Aug 2023 #15
I just talked to a cousin in Wisconsin yesterday. Irish_Dem Aug 2023 #5
it's 75 years of gasoline GenXer47 Aug 2023 #7
This comes and goes and seems to be periodic like farm chemicals rurallib Aug 2023 #10
Either pig manure or insecticide Beachnutt Aug 2023 #9
Pig shit smells like pig shit and that ain't it rurallib Aug 2023 #11
If TFG is visiting, then you're smelling sulfur. no_hypocrisy Aug 2023 #12
Any of them, Trump's is just stronger rurallib Aug 2023 #14
Chuck Grassley's used Depends. Mawspam2 Aug 2023 #13
mendacity? IA8IT Aug 2023 #16
It is caucus lead up time rurallib Aug 2023 #18
Rob Sand in the area yesterday and he's a breath of fresh air. IA8IT Aug 2023 #19
He was in my area last week but it was 100 that day. rurallib Aug 2023 #21
Crop dusting season just started here in IN if youre rural n/t Cheezoholic Aug 2023 #22

rurallib

(63,195 posts)
6. nope - weather.gov shows the are clear, air now.gov has our measurements below 50
Wed Aug 2, 2023, 03:37 PM
Aug 2023

And to me my snoot doesn't discern smoke -

Must be some chemicals getting sprayed all over the place. It stinks and it burns

viva la

(3,775 posts)
17. This is the month in my county they're doing lots of mosquito spraying
Wed Aug 2, 2023, 04:11 PM
Aug 2023

And the pollen is still high where I am.

I'm staying in the airconditioning!

rurallib

(63,195 posts)
20. Do they still spray for mosquitos?
Wed Aug 2, 2023, 04:16 PM
Aug 2023

I remember that when I was a kid and these big trucks would go by spraying a thick cover of something. We would all just breath it in and go on playing.

I have been in AC most of the day and it inside stores and offices and my house.

I am thinking insecticide from crop dusting. I have seen some planes and helicopters flying over fields last week. Good lord I haven't seen hardly a bug this summer. I think the chemicals have killed them all.

3Hotdogs

(13,394 posts)
23. Yiz were candyasses. Just breathe it in? Shiiiit. When we was kids, we would get on our bikes
Thu Aug 3, 2023, 06:40 AM
Aug 2023

and ride behind the trucks, "Spray me. Spray us." and the guy would oblige.

DDT developes strong muscles in kids.

Irish_Dem

(57,330 posts)
5. I just talked to a cousin in Wisconsin yesterday.
Wed Aug 2, 2023, 03:35 PM
Aug 2023

The Canadian fire smoke is bad there this week.
Yesterday it was bad.

rurallib

(63,195 posts)
11. Pig shit smells like pig shit and that ain't it
Wed Aug 2, 2023, 03:43 PM
Aug 2023

My first guess was insecticide. The planes were out spraying last week. It is just for the past two day it has been choking. Today I moved around Eastern Iowa and it is just everywhere. In offices and stores.

I have had a smokers hack since the fire smoke first hit us in May. This is really choking today.

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