South Florida’s sugar burning season makes breathing difficult for some residents

The ash winds up everywhere — it’s in the laundry, on cars and blankets  vegetation in backyard gardens. 

Black snow, as the ash is known, flutters down, covering homes in parts of South Florida from October through May each year, as planned burns are carried out in thousands of acres of sugarcane fields to help the crops. 

People who live around the south shore of Lake Okeechobee, an area that includes . . .