Personal wood smoke stories

I can’t breathe all winter, can’t afford to move, being driven out of our home of twenty years…
I get severe migraine headaches and nosebleeds from my neighbor’s chimney smoke…
…My neighbor has a chimney 15 feet from my house and burns about 20 cords a year from late August to June…
…Then the neighbor built his garage and we saw the smoke stack…
…the worst by far is the one next door, which belongs to a North Cowichan Wood Stove Exchange recipient…
…A county air official agrees with me but says he can’t do anything…
NYSDEC and Cuomo won’t address citizen complaints against neighbors who use INDOOR wood boilers…
…It blinds me, I have trouble breathing. It sure isn’t anything I can enjoy…
Overall pollution was literally 100 times the city’s background level.
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