This Winter the rain never seemed to stop. It was the wettest Fall-Winter I’ve recalled in my 15 years living around Austin ever. Now this Spring, Austin is being swamped with pollen. Normally it’s in the air, people with allergies suffer and so on. Never has it been this visible as the pictures of the new car demonstrate.
Those oil slicks you see in parking lots? Pollen mixed in on the surface. Windows on buildings? Pollen covered. Central Texas has transformed into this Pollen Bowl reminiscent of Dust Bowl footage from Oklahoma in the Thirties.
Besides the rain, could it also be caused by a lack of bees since they’re dying off? Or did all the rain after a few years of drought has triggered this overcompensation from the vegetation? Whatever it may be, the car wash places will probably make a killing yet not as much as Big Pharma.