Our entire countryside is a yellow-ish haze. Visibility is low.
It isn't smoke....
It isn't fog.....
It isn't smog.....
Well....they do say history repeats itself. Our corner of Virginia is currently experiencing a frightening and intense natural disaster:
The Pollen Bowl of 2011. :P
If you were blessed with good sinuses that can take rolling clouds of this vile powder...be thankful. We're on the verge of sniffling like love-lorn ladies ourselves. :P
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Seriously? Is this real?! Well, I don't have any pollen or sinus problems, but I'm not sure how many of us could cope with that level of pollen around us. Here today, we had winds of up to 60mph, so no pollen cloud would survive long with us!
ReplyDeleteWell, the pictures are real, and they look just like what's happening over here, but they aren't *my* pictures. (Google is most obliging, isn't it?)And "The Pollen Bowl of 2011" was just a name I made up! :D I don't have any sinus problems usually, nor allergies, but like you said, the concentration of pollen is really bad and gets to me every year around this time.The high winds here made the pollen clouds and blew them all over the place while we planted onions. Needless to say our noses and throats were coated! :P In my grandparent's neighborhood, they have such a lot of oak trees (the worst pollen-y trees) that everything outside; i.e. cars, trash cans, mailboxes, etc. is yellow! It's pretty terrible! :D ~Rachel
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