Answer for: What do you like least about the city of Missoula?
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When I first moved here in the 90's I thought the city had a distinct, unpleasant smell -- especially during inversions. I don't notice it anymore, but maybe I'm just used to it.
I forget the science on this -- can anything be done or is this a 100% climatological phenomenon that we won't 'fix' until we launch 22nd-century nanobots?
Hmmm.... how about less pollution to be inverted?
That's right, I do remember that most of the 'pollution' in the air of this valley is actually road dust -- from vehicles driving the roads.
As a non-Missoulan lurker, I would like to know more about this thing you call "inversion". Smell? Pollution?
Missoula is located in a valley, and due to local weather patterns and pollution, we tend to have inversion of both pollutants and fog particularly during the winter. Sadly, there is a smell associated with it, at times, due in large part to a wood pulp mill in close proximity to Missoula.
aha!
Let's not forget about the rendering plant over by Mullan Station, too. I'm sure that doesn't help the smell.
is the rendering plant still operating? I thought it was the waste water treatment plant that smelled?
I think it is. There is often that smell of rancid bacon wafting in the air around the Target area. At least they hide the carcasses now. When I was in highschool I had to drive right by there each day, and there were dead horses, etc just lying out in the open in a big pile for all to see.
The "rendering plant" is the Daily Meats plant. http://www.dailysmea...ory/Index.htm
They make your bacon. Don't like bacon? Don't eat it. I think they should put a big D on Mount Dean Stone, to confuse the local populace. The sewage treatment plant is just downstream there and smells like shit. All the nice new folks who bought new houses off Grove St. probably got a big surprise their first summer in their new homes...
"Don't like bacon? Don't eat it."
I don't - Still have to smell it, though.
Would you outlaw bacon? Are you baiting the baiter? When they started making bacon at that location there was nothing for miles around... I guess the developers should have thought about that before they built the North Reserve Consumer's District, eh?
All I'm trying to say is that every problem that mankind has ever faced is wholly or in part due to bacon.
Just sayin'.
Laughing. I guess the Kosherites had/have it right! But, really, a world without bacon? To me that says one thing, and one thing only: LONELY EGGS. It'd be like Hall w/o Oates. Unthinkable. And btw, if anyone tries to mention, like, soy-based bacon, I will kick their ass. Let's put a big B up on Blue Mountain to confuse certain people...
mmmm... Soy bacon:
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Born and raised in Missoula and as a local resident for 29 years plus I've had struggles with air quality. In the 70's and 80's it was the wood burning that caused most of the pollution in Missoula. Now I agree it is the road dust, car exhaust and the industrial business on Reserve that cause most of the pollution. In October my wife and I moved outside the city to a higher elevation. Since we moved I have been able to cut down to half my asthma and COPD medicines and have almost entirely stopped having migraines which I had for years. Coincidence?