Home > Blogs > SarahGray Lamm > Agent Outlier ~ Chapel Hill / Durham Real Estate Blog of SarahGray Lamm

OK, There IS A Downside To Living In North Carolina

By SarahGray Lamm

Real Estate Agent with Allen Tate Realtors Chapel Hill, NC 919-819-8199

April 07, 2010 01:31 PM

So, it's official. I admit there is one thing I DO NOT like about living in North Carolina.

Tree pollen. It's absolutely everywhere. I'm not kidding. EVERYWHERE.

This is the one time of year I do not like having to be in and out of my car every five minutes. The yellow-green dust is so thick you can see it in the air and I cannot even think about how much of it I breathe in in the course of a day.

It's in the driveway... SarahGray Lamm

On the grill... SarahGray Lamm

On the woodpile... SarahGray Lamm

On the deck... SarahGray Lamm

In the bird bath... SarahGray Lamm

On my cat... SarahGray Lamm

Did I mention my poor cat.... SarahGray Lamm

Thank goodness it is a short lived issue. I'll forget all about it when the azaleas are in bloom. Please excuse me now...I need to go take a shower....and rinse off my cat.

Re-Blog

Comments(16)

Comment

Show All Comments

Sort:

Jane Peters

Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles real estate concierge services

I sent Charita Cadenhead to your post. She has the same problem in Birmingham, AL.

Apr 07, 2010 01:38 PM

William Feela

WHISPERING PINES REALTY - North Branch, MN

Realtor, Whispering Pines Realty 651-674-5999 No.

Looks like the problem I will have in mid maythrought he end of may.

Apr 07, 2010 01:39 PM

Lee & Carol Barbour, REALTORS

Murphy and Hayesville, NC; Hiawassee, Blairsville, Blue Ridge GA - Murphy, NC

Mountain Living Team in Murphy NC and North GA

Oh what we have to suffer through for those beautiful spring blooms! Ragweed gets me the worst, but that's what I have to look forward to in a few months :)

Apr 07, 2010 01:50 PM

SarahGray Lamm

Allen Tate Realtors Chapel Hill, NC 919-819-8199 - Chapel Hill, NC

Realtor - 100K Hours of NC Real Estate Experience

Thanks Jane! Glad to know this isn't just an eastern problem...

William, seriously? In Minnesota? wow.

Lee & Carol, sadly there is a season for every allergy sufferer in the Carolinas! For me it is the mold/mildew of the winter months!

Apr 07, 2010 01:55 PM

Tom Bailey

Margaret Rudd & Associates Inc. - Oak Island, NC

I moved here 2 years ago from Atlanta. Atlanta has the same problem, maybe worse. The problem is not as bad here at the beach. The only thing I can think of is because the wind blows so much that the pollen does not have a chance to build and blow out all at one time.

Apr 07, 2010 01:58 PM

Richard Weisser

Richard Weisser Realty - Newnan, GA

Richard Weisser Retired Real Estate Professional

SarahGray,,,

We are choking here in Newnan. I haven't seen this much pollen in years!

Apr 07, 2010 02:30 PM

Charita Cadenhead

eXp Realty - Birmingham, AL

Serving Jefferson and Shelby Counties (Alabama)

Sarah you know it's really bad when animal come in looking like they've had a color treatment at the local salon.

Apr 07, 2010 03:09 PM

Mike Jaquish

Realty Arts - Cary, NC

919-880-2769 Cary, NC, Real Estate

SarahGray,

When I need a 4 wheel drive, or tire chains, to get through the pollen, and it is below freezing for the entire pollen season, I'm liable to head back to Pennsylvania!

Apr 07, 2010 03:09 PM

Bubba Fife

Complete Property Maintenance - Nashville, TN

Too funny. Heavy tree pollen is nothing to pussy foot around with. Ask your poor cat...

featured in blogs happen...

Apr 07, 2010 10:02 PM

Richard Strahm

American Foursquare Realty - Lansdale, PA

Lansdale and North Penn Real Estate

We have the same issue up here in Pennsylvania -- but not for a few weeks . . .

Apr 08, 2010 12:02 AM

SarahGray Lamm

Allen Tate Realtors Chapel Hill, NC 919-819-8199 - Chapel Hill, NC

Realtor - 100K Hours of NC Real Estate Experience

Tom, I'm sure you are right about the wind at the beach...that and the kinds of trees are somewhat different!

Richard, yep...just heard it is 3 times worse this year than the last worse year (?!) in 2003!

Charita, I feel so bad for them especially when they must have to lick 10 lbs of it off themselves!

Mike...now there's a visual that I can totally relate to!

Bubba! Thanks for the feature...and the humor! ;-)

Richard, good luck with that. Maybe you'll need do have a little vaca down south in a few weeks!

Apr 08, 2010 12:18 AM

Gene Mundt, IL/WI Mortgage Originator - FHA/VA/Conv/Jumbo/Portfolio/Refi

NMLS #216987, IL Lic. 031.0006220, WI Licensed. APMC NMLS #175656 - New Lenox, IL

708.921.6331 - 40+ yrs experience

SarahGray: Couple years back I visited Pinehurst in April. Absolutely fell in love with the area and told Marilyn we'd have to go back together ... only not in April. I sneezed, teared, coughed my way through my golf rounds. (I know ... poor Gene .. lol) It was the ONLY thing I could say negative about my beautiful trip. Otherwise, I talk about your lovely state still today ...

Gene

Apr 08, 2010 07:18 AM

Claude Cross

Homes By Cross, Inc. - Charlotte, NC

Charlotte NC Homes For Sale

We are "eat up " here in Charlotte with our most pollenated spring in years. I'm feeling mellow yellow. A-Choo

Apr 08, 2010 07:55 AM

SarahGray Lamm

Allen Tate Realtors Chapel Hill, NC 919-819-8199 - Chapel Hill, NC

Realtor - 100K Hours of NC Real Estate Experience

Gene, come on back to Pinehurst in the fall...exquisite and BTW, I'm a mean golfer myself...another thing we have in common!

Claude, I'll be in Charlotte for a day in a week or so so I hope we've all gotten a rain bath by then! Yick!

Apr 08, 2010 11:54 AM

Anna "Banana" Kruchten

HomeSmart Real Estate - Phoenix, AZ

602-380-4886

SarahGray - I used to have the same darn problem when I lived in Flagstaff AZ amonst the pine trees. It drove me nuts! Just when you can have the windows open - in comes the green stuff!

Apr 08, 2010 01:05 PM

Gene Mundt, IL/WI Mortgage Originator - FHA/VA/Conv/Jumbo/Portfolio/Refi

NMLS #216987, IL Lic. 031.0006220, WI Licensed. APMC NMLS #175656 - New Lenox, IL

708.921.6331 - 40+ yrs experience

SarahGray: You golf???? I definitely want to get back soon .. and as Marilyn is not a golfer ... I'd love to have you join me on the links ... MY treat! Sounds like I might get my tush beat out there tho ...

Gene

Apr 09, 2010 03:01 AM