The issue of chemical trails has been percolating here in the southern New England area for some time. The heaviest spraying to be noted in the past few months came on the days April 28, 29, and 30th, which were clear days with bright blue skies.

A radio talk show host out of Waterbury, Ed Flynn, has raised the issue of chemical trails and high-level jet activities a fair number of times. He and his listeners have written to Honest Joe Lieberman and other leaders in Congress, only to have their letters ignored -- or fobbed off to the Environmental Protection Agency. Letters forwarded to them are never answered at all, so far in the year 2000.

The four days following the incidents of high-altitude trails being observed here brought a fair amount of nasal discomfort.

One fellow called in to the Flynn talk show -- which can be accessed daily on Broadcastamerica.com, via Talk/WATR Radio -- to note that half of his construction crew reported off with head colds and flu-like symptoms in those first two days following the three days of chemical trails.

: Here in S.E. Pennsylvania we can see the trails clearly,
: especially around daybreak. And I suspect even heavier
: spraying is done in rainy weather, because that's when I
: and a colleague notice the throat condition. I smoke
: cigarettes; he doesn't.

Most of the time, in the last nine months, the rainy weather seems to follow the chemical trail spraying. I don't think the procedure works too well in periods of inclement weather, but then we have had a cool and wet summer where what was predicted was hot, hotter, and always humid. We did have a few days like that but nothing compared to the big drought of last year!

Finally -- on the subject of birds dying, or not? Birds are warm-blooded but they are not like people or mammals. They do not get the same diseases we get. They can carry some disease microbes, though! They lay eggs and then must feed their young with semi-digested nutrients and regurgitated things, etc. Here in Connecticut and all through New England, up into New Hampshire this year, we have had crows die off. Given that there are so many, a minor die-off has been less than a concern. But in almost all cases the crows died of West Nile virus, the form transmitted by mosquito to birds and then to humans (or so we are told). Bear in mind that before last year nobody here in Connecticut had ever heard of the West Nile, at all! Now we are being told that it is some form or another of global warming which is causing this!

What a lot of hooey that is! They have tried to "sell" us the story that the West Nile came in on a load of tires from Egypt or some nonsense like that. Why would anybody here buy used tires from Egypt? There was one story written and posted on the New York Times for approximately one and one-half days last summer, about the West Nile being a biological attack served up by the Iraqi military -- it made the rounds like a brush fire or gossip about a homecoming queen, and then simply disappeared.

A fair number of people died from West Nile last summer, and then the hurricanes came and blew all the water out of the watersheds and tidal ponds along the coastlines of Long Island and Connecticut.

What is for sure is that people who don't smoke tobacco or partake of marijuana seem ever-so-much more susceptible to what is being laid down in these chemical trails. Again and again, I hear from friends and neighbors that sinus-headaches are on the rise, but that there is almost no fever. Scratchy throats come and stay and then disappear. I realize this is all anecdotal.

But the tremendous rise in asthma here in New England is not a matter of guesswork, it is not a matter of imagination or not getting the facts right. People are suffering. Adults are getting asthma -- adult onset asthma being fairly rare -- even when they keep their domiciles completely clean.

Furthermore, check the catalog sales houses, and notice that air cleaners and dust control devices are now all in demand, and that indicates that this demand has been building for a year or more. The turn around time on planning for catalog sales is six to nine months at a minimum! This problem of asthma, excessive dust and irritants in the air, sore throats of unknown origin, and more -- has to have something to do with the chemical trails.

The two-jet formations observed here and in New Jersey just ten days ago are something new. Two jets flying in tandem like that, with one spraying and one trailing -- that is definitely a new development in this issue and requires elaboration.