HOUSTON — Houston, we have a pollen problem. If you're new to the area, let me in-tree-duce you to what we're dealing with here.
Washing your car is pointless from February to May. A thick yellow layer of pollen coats everything from the roof of your house to the hood of your car.
While most people speak of accumulation in terms of snowfall, we can nearly measure our pollen with a yard stick on some days.
One of the rules I was taught early on was to "believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see."
So when a Reddit post came across my desk exclaiming "Houston has the highest pollen count in the country!", I was immediately skeptical.
After a quick 30 second google search, I stumbled across Pollen.com where I quickly found that not only are we NOT the highest in the country, with places such as Dallas, San Angelo, Corpus Christi and Amarillo with much higher counts.
That's just in the state of Texas.
The extreme allergy counts span coast to coast from Florida to California and encompassing everybody south of 35°N latitude (basically Oklahoma southward), according to the map at pollen.com.
See the video above for perspective as to how Houston's pollen count stacks up against the rest of the state.
Regardless of who's got the higher counts, we're all enduring tremendous effects of the budding spring whether you're in Atlanta, Birmingham, Houston or Amarillo.
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