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02-16-2009, 04:36 AM
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I've been seriously contemplating a move to Grafton WV, and thank you all for your great input.
However, I have one more question.
Someone said there is soot in the air due to the coal mines -- sometimes black specks on the snow? Is this true?
Thanks ~
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02-16-2009, 04:56 AM
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I would expect any soot to come from local homes heating with coal...many still do that...
The coal mines do not produce soot and the particulate matter from the railroads would be wind blown dust from the railroad beds...
The Shinnston Power Plant is over 20 miles away and its particuate matter is sequestered in the chimneys with pollution devices...
Culprit most likely are homes burning coal or wood and coal. The big thing is having a very large woodstove outside the house...heats a hot water loop that runs to the house.
Those outside furnaces burn everything...tires, garbage..oil...if it will burn, it goes in the stove.
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02-16-2009, 06:15 AM
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Location: Elkins, WV
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Quote:
Originally Posted by David Kennedy
I would expect any soot to come from local homes heating with coal...many still do that...
The coal mines do not produce soot and the particulate matter from the railroads would be wind blown dust from the railroad beds...
The Shinnston Power Plant is over 20 miles away and its particuate matter is sequestered in the chimneys with pollution devices...
Culprit most likely are homes burning coal or wood and coal. The big thing is having a very large woodstove outside the house...heats a hot water loop that runs to the house.
Those outside furnaces burn everything...tires, garbage..oil...if it will burn, it goes in the stove.
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My grandparents had one of those stoves put in a while back. It does a good job, just gets a little annoying having to go chop wood every time I head home though. |
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02-16-2009, 04:58 PM
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When you get to their age you will remember the chore and be glad you did it for them...quit you whining....perhaps you would want money for soiling your hands....
WAHHHH! Git off your dead-ass and make Saturday a work project...GHO, I don't believe the B*ll $h!+ you just wrote...didn't we raise you right...
I'm sic-ing Harbor Lady on your dead Okoali right now.....
Oh, Harbor Lady? Harbor Lady...
ps: If I was Grampa, I would give all my money to Marshall U and do it in YOUR name.
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02-16-2009, 07:10 PM
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Location: Lost in Montana *recalculating*...
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Chopping wood was my aerobic exercise when I lived back in Inwood..
Once I find a steady source of wood to cut, I'll be right back at it with another woodburner in our house in Bridgeport.
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02-17-2009, 12:15 AM
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Location: Phoenix, AZ
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I've never seen any! Maybe in and around the Railroad yards due to them transporting a lot of coal by train but I've never noticed anything like that on the snow.
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02-18-2009, 08:23 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by David Kennedy
When you get to their age you will remember the chore and be glad you did it for them...quit you whining....perhaps you would want money for soiling your hands....
WAHHHH! Git off your dead-ass and make Saturday a work project...GHO, I don't believe the B*ll $h!+ you just wrote...didn't we raise you right...
I'm sic-ing Harbor Lady on your dead Okoali right now.....
Oh, Harbor Lady? Harbor Lady...
ps: If I was Grampa, I would give all my money to Marshall U and do it in YOUR name.
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Why, back in the day, we shoveled 3 ft of snow from every neighbors house and got paid a cookie. KIDS these days! SHEESH!
How's that DK?  |
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02-18-2009, 01:01 PM
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He's in Poland...doing the 'Warsaw Watusi'...when he gets back to WV he will be speaking russki...thaks HB
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02-19-2009, 01:01 PM
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Ahh but did you forget about that young man chasing greener grass seeking his fortune, hanging out with latte krishna bigfoots in the pacific NW? Seems to me he came around eventually. 
A neighbor of mine, 85 yrs bless her heart, was telling me about when television first came to WV. She laughed pretty hard recalling... "They said it was the devils work, and no self respecting christian woman should watch it."
Times change, but what's real and enduring doesn't. Maybe just the faces & the names.  |
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02-19-2009, 04:55 PM
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HB:
It was called Expresso at the time and it was very good (had my first mug in Christchurch, NZ)...and about TV..Howdy Doody and Ted Mac were hardly the devils work...but now?
I can't watch it and have my brain infused with the injections of mental crap...it is truely sickening.
Wonder what Philo would think of his invention of education now?...
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