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re: This raining ash is really starting to piss me off.

Posted on 12/31/25 at 7:41 pm to
Posted by td1
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2015
3147 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 7:41 pm to
No shite, it has rained ash every year in Southdowns since I’ve been alive. Must be a slow news week!
Posted by choupiquesushi
yaton rouge
Member since Jun 2006
33896 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 7:51 pm to
Been a thing here for 300 years bro
Posted by Bard
Definitely NOT an admin
Member since Oct 2008
58017 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 9:15 pm to
Welcome to sugar cane country.

Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
43104 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 9:58 pm to
It's worse now than I remembered it was 40 years ago by a lot. It may just be that I am more sensitive to it than I was back then.
This post was edited on 12/31/25 at 10:01 pm
Posted by samson73103
Krypton
Member since Nov 2008
9107 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:03 pm to
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Completely wasted lemon wedge and ice

First world problems
Posted by PotatoChip
Member since May 2014
4817 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:06 pm to
It’s different each year depending on the wind. This year the wind was blowing to the east side pushing all the cane fields toward Baton Rouge.
Posted by Btrtigerfan
Disgruntled employee
Member since Dec 2007
23590 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:11 pm to
quote:

This year the wind was blowing to the east side pushing all the cane fields toward Baton Rouge.



Posted by PotatoChip
Member since May 2014
4817 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:15 pm to
I live across from hundreds of acres of cane and got little to no ashes in my yard. Last year, we were covered for about a week
Posted by ActusHumanus
St. George, Louisiana
Member since Sep 2025
782 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:22 pm to
quote:

I went to nicholls for a year and a half - it’s no big deal


I was there for a year. The cane smoke and my asthma was why I moved back to Lafayette.
Posted by GREENHEAD22
Member since Nov 2009
20591 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:24 pm to
Go back north yankee
Posted by lsujunky
Down By The River
Member since Jun 2011
2631 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:29 pm to
Finally someone that understands why it’s more this year in certain areas.
This post was edited on 12/31/25 at 10:31 pm
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
59048 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:42 pm to
quote:

The cane smoke and my asthma was why I moved back to Lafayette.
I had a similar experience and moved back to NOLA.

Also had broken up with my down the bayou boyfriend (but we are married now )
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
43104 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 7:37 am to
quote:

It’s different each year depending on the wind. This year the wind was blowing to the east side pushing all the cane fields toward Baton Rouge.



I'm just talking in general, not specifically this year, and I'm in Lafayette anyway. The bulk of the nearby cane fields are more south of where I am.
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
11672 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 8:22 am to
If you hate that, then go to Terrebonne Parish, there were six marsh fires around the parish this week. Last night another one started in lower Terrebonne, I believe. Houma fire had 3 structure fires in two days. One of them was a shed fire in which several geese and chickens had to be rescued. One chicken didn’t make it.

One of the commenters on Facebook posted a picture of a roasted chicken, and comments ranged from if the temperature of the chicken was 165 degrees, was it safe to eat to hands praying. Those commenters must post here as well. But that is what sophomoric humor passes for content on Facebook today.
This post was edited on 1/1/26 at 8:23 am
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
148559 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 8:53 am to
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Also had broken up with my down the bayou boyfriend (but we are married now )
the amount of trim me and Pableaux slayed at Rox’s that semester was unfathomable.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
7573 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 9:03 am to
Would yall mind….

Shutting the frick up about this?
Posted by ColoradoCock
Member since Apr 2025
279 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 9:23 am to
Its trashy. A trashy state and its residents wouldn't care about ash. What was i thinking?!?
Posted by frequent flyer
USA
Member since Jul 2021
3402 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 10:22 am to
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Its trashy. A trashy state and its residents wouldn't care about ash. What was i thinking?!?


I think it’s trashy that a business model depends almost exclusively on immigrant labor and special treatment from an environmental regulatory perspective. Or that they have to release this much ash every year onto someone else’s property to stay tits up.

If they don’t hire locals anymore and they clearly don’t care about what they are doing to the local air quality….why should our government continue protectionist policies and price floors for them?

A lot easier to look the other way if more locals were employed by this industry. But it’s not. The LA1 sugar cane towns like Donaldsonville, Morganza, etc. are declining, not growing.
This post was edited on 1/1/26 at 10:29 am
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
33085 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 10:39 am to
quote:

Ash rain or the super muddy roads with the rain.


Noticed this too.

Guess the Mexicans don’t clean off the tractors or trailers before they drive them down the highway and frick up traffic?
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