I feel like Scarface in NC (shop, cars, barbershop)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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I swear it seems like this is the only place in the country where this happens. I moved to NC about 2 years ago from Chicago and was shocked at all of the mess...Anyone else know of another state where this happens too?
We got a lot of pollen when I lived in suburban Maryland although it wasn’t as much as it is here. It often gets so bad here that it’s like sand on my back deck.
I swear it seems like this is the only place in the country where this happens. I moved to NC about 2 years ago from Chicago and was shocked at all of the mess...Anyone else know of another state where this happens too?
We've lived in Virginia Beach and in Orlando and have not experienced this kind of sudden pollen "assault".
We fought keeping our screened pool enclosure clean in Orlando, but that pale green covering was more like mildew (emphasis on the ew!) from the constant humidity! I'll take 2 weeks of pollen over 9 months of mildew spores, though I've never had any allergies and I'd like to scratch my eyes out from this pine pollen!
I swear it seems like this is the only place in the country where this happens. I moved to NC about 2 years ago from Chicago and was shocked at all of the mess...Anyone else know of another state where this happens too?
I never saw it growing up in MD, but I was just telling my mom about it. She said it was really bad this year, but I think it is the different trees they planted on her block more recently.
I swear it seems like this is the only place in the country where this happens. I moved to NC about 2 years ago from Chicago and was shocked at all of the mess...Anyone else know of another state where this happens too?
We lived in a woodsy area not far from Boston and there were many pine trees there. There would literally be puffs and draperies of this same pollen wafting on the slightest breeze, and it was even worse than it is today. When my younger boy was about 3, we were driving up and out of our driveway and our neighbor's driveway across the road climbed rather steeply toward their house. There were very clear tire tracks through the thick pollen. I commented that it looked like snow. My son said "yeah daddy, the bees have been real busy squirting pollen all over the place".
One of the most memorable moments of my life.
So, yes, we had it as bad or maybe worse up in suburban Boston.
Yeah this happens in MD every year...it's more of a burnt orange color...but it was not to the level or amount where you could see it falling off the trees...
Unfortunately, the pine pollen (which I concur seems to be worse this year than MANY years, at least--and it all seemed to have come at once! Saturday IIRC was fine, but by Monday, we looked like Oz with all of the "Yellow (brick) roads") generally is not what's bad for allergies, because it is very large, as pollen goes, and doesn't go up into your sinues as bad as the smaller, invisible pollen that other plants will be spewing throughout the spring. I wish the stuff you can see WAS the worst, because then we'd have an idea when it was about to be over, but actually the unseen critters are the bad ones!
Unfortunately, the pine pollen (which I concur seems to be worse this year than MANY years, at least--and it all seemed to have come at once! Saturday IIRC was fine, but by Monday, we looked like Oz with all of the "Yellow (brick) roads") generally is not what's bad for allergies, because it is very large, as pollen goes, and doesn't go up into your sinues as bad as the smaller, invisible pollen that other plants will be spewing throughout the spring. I wish the stuff you can see WAS the worst, because then we'd have an idea when it was about to be over, but actually the unseen critters are the bad ones!
I agree. My allergies went crazy a the beginning of last week, before we were coated in pine pollen. I've never seen clouds of pollen until this year. It's a little freaky looking. Maybe M. Night Shyamalan was right and the trees are after us.
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