Pollen: Texas ongoing thread

[miguelito 11500]

At this point, Texas officials should consider a shelter in place just for the oak pollen for the next few weeks.  

Check out the dark blue line on the chart; it is following the yellow and green lines of the last 2 years, as opposed to the previous 2 years.  Maybe it was El Nino, I don't know. 

Anyway, we're fucked.

 

[austingirl 2194]

Anyone else miserable today? Mold and oak, maybe?

[Amos Moses 795]

10 hours ago, austingirl said:

Anyone else miserable today? Mold and oak, maybe?

Yes.  This front blew some bad juju into the air.

[UTGrad98 2332]

Whole family having horrible allergies in the last 48 hours. 2020 is not a good year to have allergies....

[WBT 20969]

No shit, the side eye I get for sneezing and blowing my nose in a normal year is bad enough.  I guess the counterpoint is that I'm barely around people anymore.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

My spouse had to use his inhaler last night. I'm really worried about his lungs since he is required to go to work and we have positive community spread COVID cases. I would like to reboot 2020 please.

[2300 Nueces 163]

13 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

My spouse had to use his inhaler last night. I'm really worried about his lungs since he is required to go to work and we have positive community spread COVID cases. I would like to reboot 2020 please.

It's bad for sure.  I have developed cedar, ragweed, and now oak allergies.  The only relief I get is when temps are 97+.  Sigh

[2300 Nueces 163]

1 hour ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

My spouse had to use his inhaler last night. I'm really worried about his lungs since he is required to go to work and we have positive community spread COVID cases. I would like to reboot 2020 please.

The positive side to allergies is that people with allergies have very active immune systems.  I rotate clariten and zyrtec every 12 hours and do flonase at night so I can sleep.  It works. 

[futureman 22691]

who else has sneezed over 1,000x today?

[miguelito 11500]

 

 

 

24,100 today.  2nd highest count in the last 5 years.

[Steel Shank 9552]

"I'd rather be laying pipe."

[miguelito 11500]

29,650

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9

6

5

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[Hpara759 1792]

just came to do a (drive-by) to see what the Surly MD's were saying about allergies.....my eyes were stuck together this morning.............

[Chet Steadman 940]

Back of my throat was on fire the moment I woke up.  Thought I was getting sick.  
 

So glad (kinda, but not really) to see this thread bumped.  

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

I am outside all the time (covered up because cancer) and I rarely have allergies. I think my immune system just said fuggedaboudit after so many years.

This season, my immune system is woke. I don't know how y'all stand this daily torture of sneeze, snot, and cementhead.

[miguelito 11500]

Don't forget sandpaper on the inside of your eyelids.

[bolverk 30316]

5 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

sneeze, snot, and cementhead.

check, check, and check

4 minutes ago, miguelito said:

sandpaper on the inside of your eyelids.

check

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

My spouse has had them for years and Texas is undoubtedly the worst for them. I do the yard work so he doesn't have to suffer out there, and when I can't do it any longer we will use a service. (It's a good leg and arm workout.) He doesn't complain, but boy howdy I do NOT know how he is able to keep a coherent thought in his head when every one of my gray cells is probably covered in a pale green dusting of pollen.

[gyroprotagonist 2597]

staying on flonase religiously has helped a ton.  now added a 12-hour allegra in the morning and will probably end the day with a benedryl before bed.

[Samson's Wig 3230]

Nothing like a sinus infection brought on by this shit, and the resulting fever/cough/etc. to get your mind spinning into some dark places these days.

[crash_davis 23468]

i have a stye in my right eye brought on by allergies. what a shitty time to be alive.

Edited March 27, 2020 by crash_davis

[Poe It Up 126]

2 hours ago, Samson's Wig said:

Nothing like a sinus infection brought on by this shit, and the resulting fever/cough/etc. to get your mind spinning into some dark places these days.

I’m right there with you, I was convinced I had the corona last night. My nose was so stopped up that I was having trouble tasting and smelling food. Watching everyone else enjoy the cookies that my wife baked last night was a real low point for me. 

[miguelito 11500]

Yeah, they were good cookies.

[gmr548 16690]

11 hours ago, miguelito said:

Don't forget sandpaper on the inside of your eyelids.

I have a covid test pending so I'm only leaving my apartment for a couple of minutes a day to let the dog out and do his thing. This shit hits within 30 seconds of going outdoors. Lasts for hours. Worse than any of the flu-like symptoms I've had thus far. Fuck this shit.

[bluto 4995]

mowed the yard yesterday and my eyes burned and watered like i was cutting a damn onion. if i go outside more than 5 minutes today, I'm effin toast

[miguelito 11500]

On 3/27/2020 at 8:03 PM, gmr548 said:

This shit hits within 30 seconds of going outdoors. Lasts for hours.

Man, this is the truth right here.  If only the allergy drugs were that good.  "Acts immediately!!  Long-lasting!!!"

3rd day in a row of over 20,000. 

[miguelito 11500]

Fuck me, fuck you. 30,900.

[Chet Steadman 940]

Yesterday was awful.  

[miguelito 11500]

More stats, because I know you like them.

The last 5 days have all been above 23,000.  The 5-day total is over 136,000.  Yearly totals the last few years have been between 170,000 and 212,000.  We are at 166,600 for the year so far, with 2-3 weeks to go. 

Here's a graph of this year's count, projected to the end of the season:

 

[Chet Steadman 940]

What site do you use for the daily counts?  I have found KVUE in KXAN to be too unreliable.  

[miguelito 11500]

I'm in San Antonio, so I use KSAT's weather page or twitter.  Sometimes I have to go to WOAI's page.  I don't know what the original source is.  It used to be Dr Ratner, but he died. 

https://twitter.com/ksatweather?lang=en

 

But KSAT has my favorite meteorologists.

Edited March 30, 2020 by miguelito

[SuingToGetAMessageBoard? 3871]

I'm sniffling like my dog just died.  This shit is crushing me.  

 

4 minutes ago, miguelito said:

I'm in San Antonio, so I use KSAT's weather page or twitter.  Sometimes I have to go to WOAI's page.  I don't know what the original source is.  It used to be Dr Ratner, but he died. 

https://twitter.com/ksatweather?lang=en

 

But KSAT has my favorite meteorologists.

that hurricane is a category 10

[austingirl 2194]

Today I've had a god-awful sinus headache since about 9 am. I'm wearing sunglasses indoors because every light is too bright. I'm about ready to just burn everything down and go live in a bunker till the end of days. Which, by the looks of it, isn't far off anyway.

[Deej 77807]

Yesterday was the first day in 10 days that my back was well enough to let me sit somewhat comfortably. I made the mistake of using that as an excuse to hang out on the patio for 4 hours. Kill me.

[Steel Shank 9552]

11 hours ago, miguelito said:

Fuck me, fuck you. 30,900.

[Armybrat 41391]

On 3/27/2020 at 8:52 AM, miguelito said:

Don't forget sandpaper on the inside of your eyelids.

My eyes have been like that since cataract surgery in January. 

[LABEVO 928]

[austingirl 2194]

2 hours ago, Deej said:

Yesterday was the first day in 10 days that my back was well enough to let me sit somewhat comfortably. I made the mistake of using that as an excuse to hang out on the patio for 4 hours. Kill me.

Right? That's the worst part. Cedar ends, the weather gets gorgeous, and we still can't enjoy our decks and patios without suffering.

[Buzzrock 15136]

Thankful for the rain today to knock the pollen back. It had reached full blizzard here.

[Paper_jam 851]

Let's hope the oak pollen will bind with the COVID-19 and neutralize it. Or maybe act like a barrier to infection by coating our nasal passages and interior lung surfaces...

 

 

 

[gmr548 16690]

Took a work call on the patio this morning for about 30 mins. Fuck me. I'm in full on meltdown. Claratin did nothing.

[miguelito 11500]

7610 ... that's mold today.  Oak is only 80.  My eyes hurt.

[miguelito 11500]

Oak is done, if you haven't noticed.  Mold and grass and some other trees are taking over, but nothing like the mighty oak. 

The total count was less than last year, but above average over the last 5 years.  2020 had the highest single day count in the last 5 years, at 30,900.

 

Here's the final chart.  You can see that this year was really one big ass blast in the middle, and then a sharp drop to modest levels:

 

See you all in ragweed season, if my sinus infection or the corona don't kill us all first.

[austingirl 2194]

I am having a hell of a time today - constantly watering eyes, stuffiness, sneezing. KVUE says mold is high which is just a bitch since we haven't even gotten the benefit of rain lately.

[bolverk 30316]

2 minutes ago, austingirl said:

I am having a hell of a time today - constantly watering eyes, stuffiness, sneezing. KVUE says mold is high which is just a bitch since we haven't even gotten the benefit of rain lately.

As a lifelong allergy sufferer, I can relate...could even be considered a canary in the coal mine. It started on Monday for me: sinus headache, congestion, sneezing, itchy/watery eyes.

[Hate 20247]

Sounds like y’all got the ronas.

[bolverk 30316]

I was actually joking with someone just yesterday over the phone about how it sounds like I have almost all the symptoms.

[gyroprotagonist 2597]

41 minutes ago, austingirl said:

I am having a hell of a time today - constantly watering eyes, stuffiness, sneezing. KVUE says mold is high which is just a bitch since we haven't even gotten the benefit of rain lately.

yep, same.  eyes starting watering something fierce last night out of the blue

[Samson's Wig 3230]

Is ragweed rearing its ugly head already?

[Deej 77807]

Yes, it is, and it's been a motherfucker.