Air Pollution in Fort Lauderdale?

I thought they tore down the FPL power plant a few years ago, but same sh!t different day:

Boat was cleaned recently.
Now this after a brief rain shower.
Some blame it on dirty exhaust from jets taking off and landing.
Anvbody knows what the cause is?

How long ago was that?
Modern jets are damn clean and efficient, otherwise all the runways, taxi ways and tail sections would be black.
Old jets from the 60s and 70s would trail black smoke.

Nah, we gave that up
a couple of years ago.
I live 2.5 NM West of the coastline and with a prevailing SE wind, I should have clean air from the entire North Atlantic all day and all night, instead my lawn furniture is black and boat is full of black dust every few days

Nice Airport again?
So the culprit is airplanes taking off and landing?
Hard to filter jet exhaust, but I always thought modern jet engines were pretty darn clean compared to alsmost anything, like a boat Diesel engine of which you can see black clouds across the Gulf Stream because somebody forgot to overhaul their injectors or are running way over-propped
Not sure those guys are my air pollution problem however, soot falls to the surface shortly, then the crabs have to choke on it 30 hours later,
This black flying dust in Fort Lauderdale keeps the Boat Washers in business
and runs me ragged

Most of the time we have a ESE winds and should not be getting anything from the West, sugar canes or not.
Westerly winds comes only with frontal passage yet the black dust is present all the time.
When we moved here 18 years ago the powerplant would burn oil at night according to local folklore, supposedly they tore the plant down and with the plant being SE from my house, I expected the problem to be over, but it is not.

Must be, you are on the ICW West side and North of Bahia mar?
I am further inland and closer to the airport.
I will dig a bit deeper and ask around in the area to see who gets it and who don't..
(Maybe just here because the Gods are angry at me )

I got a cottage in Northern Norway where electricity is being powered by hydro.
Clean air, no major roads, no airports, no nothing and way North of the Artic Circle.
To bad it is cold most of the year, but love it anyways..

Thx, I just now sent them an email asking information on where the soot and the black dust is coming from.
Perhaps a class action lawsuit can stop it if caused by a local power plant or the trains. Doubt they will move the airport so I don't have to wash my cars and boats quite as often.

Your boat is a bit closer to the Ocean than mine.
More salt, less brackish. I send divers down every 3-4 months, not once a month.
Up-River we get slime on the bottom paint rather than barnacles.
Slime goes off with a soft scrub sponge, no biggie.
Props and shafts get barnacles unless Prop Speed is on the menu but I did the cleaning myself jumping in with a scraper now and then.
About 10 years ago I got lazy and started calling divers, or un-employed and starving buddies.