"THE WINDS OF CHANGE" ARE CONTAMINATING THE WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA.

     The EPA and China have been aware of it for years.
     12 years ago, I worked on a private residence on Marine Drive, in an area on the Tulalip Indian Reserve just West of Marysville, Wa. The house was vacant, and along with several other workers, I was hired to completely restore the place, both inside and out.
     Of course with all that work, comes the usual mess and the job of cleaning up the debris and destruction that goes along with it. The common sense thing to do is to pick up after yourself each day. Which we did, before closing everything up for the night.
     As anyone knows, there is the dust that settles on everything from dry-walling and work such as we do.
     We also built a large deck connected to the dwelling on the water side and overlooking the peaceful Tulalip Bay. It was accessible from the kitchen and living room through sliding glass doors.
     Just outside the doors, we placed an abandoned old table and chairs we found very convenient to sit and eat our lunch at when the weather allowed it, and we could view the nature of it all at the same time we had our lunch. Along with it, there was always a nice Pacific breeze blowing into the Bay from the west and ultimately, from the Ocean.
      Then something peculiar started happening we hadn't noticed earlier.
     Every morning as we arrived for work, we would place our lunches on the table and proceed to open the house up for the days work. Suddenly we noticed the table would have a quite heavy
 layer of brownish red, fine dust on it. Enough
so, we would brush it off before placing anything on the table. There was enough to make us wonder where it was coming from.
     Along with it, there was a smell , as though it  came from something hot. Yet the dust that settled in the house with the doors closed was normal colored and without the smell, just as you would expect it.
     The dust continued for approximately two months or so until we finalized the job. But I was always puzzled about the cause of it.
     Then one day, I happened to see a newspaper called the "Eastsider", that could only have been printed from the East side of Lake Washington or thereabouts. In it was an article concerning a huge Dust storm that took place in China's Gobi Desert and had been so gigantic, it placed large amounts of dust high enough to reach the Stratosphere. I searched all the other larger papers for more information and could find no mention. They probably shrugged off the news as trivial.
     The dust was also high enough to be carried by the winds that predominantly blow around the World from East to West, at greater speeds than they do nearer to the Earth.
     It dawned on me, China had already begun their Industrial Revolution and with still no proper control of it's contaminates to this day, allowed those contaminates to take their natural settlement course and settle on guess where? The great Gobi Desert!!.
     I understand that dust storms take place regularly on the Gobi Desert, and most likely all other deserts too, but this one in particular bothers me, because not only the Industrial contaminates are to be feared, but last and not least, how about atomic and nuclear contaminates from the testing that settled all those years on the desert as well?
     Just last month, as I hosed off my driveway, I took notice that the same familiar looking dust actually turned the dirty water brown as it ran down into the storm drain.
     Then I realized, China experienced another massive dust storm earlier this year.
     Now, my question is, with our Great and sensitive EPA and Dept. of Ecology being so particular about the local pollution we are so "wrecklessly" creating, such as when we spit on the side walk in America, where in the heck is their outrage towards China? 
     Has anybody seen or heard any outbursts of anger expressed at the Country that has, along with the Greedy International Industrial Companies, put the Middle Class out of  work here, partially due to the overly expensive stringent policies the EPA have enforced here?
     Is it a case of not seeing the forest for the trees?? Just sayin'.