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Re:Oracle Moving HQ to Austin by spchampion2 on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:45PM (#25391541)
Wait until they learn about cedar fever. Juniperus ashei pollinates in the winter, starting right about now through February. Pollen levels are still relatively low, but by January the trees explode and people are miserable. Last January they were reporting almost 28,000 cedar pollen grains per cubic meter of air in the Austin area. Misery. Pure misery.

https://www.kxan.com/top-stories/cedar-pollen-reaches-highes...

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Re:Oracle Moving HQ to Austin by hotsauceror on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:25PM (#25395157)
Just northwest of the city it’s crazy. When the wind gets up in January there will just be thick yellow clouds of pollen blowing off the Mountain Cedars, and everything is covered in it.
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Re:Oracle Moving HQ to Austin by pixl97 on Friday December 11, 2020 @11:16PM (#25395469)
Heh, exactly where I live. It about kills my wife.
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Re:Oracle Moving HQ to Austin by rtx on Saturday December 12, 2020 @03:37AM (#25396777)
Why suffer through that.
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Re:Oracle Moving HQ to Austin by warmfuzzykitten on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:03PM (#25391861)
You left out scorpions.
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Re:Oracle Moving HQ to Austin by fendrak on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:42PM (#25392515)
In 12 years in Austin I have encountered zero scorpions indoors, and maybe a single-digit number outdoors. This despite essentially constantly walking barefoot in both. In my entire life in Texas I've been stung by a scorpion exactly one time.
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Re:Oracle Moving HQ to Austin by hotsauceror on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:22PM (#25395128)
We get about one or two a month here in the summer, in the house. There’s plenty more in the yard. We found one in our daughter’s crib and another stung my wife while we were asleep in bed. We’ve got brown recluse, black widows, and rattlesnakes too. Welcome to Texas!
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Re:Oracle Moving HQ to Austin by lwb on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:17PM (#25393617)
I’ve lived here 6 months and already found 2 in my house. Depends where you live I guess!
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Re:Oracle Moving HQ to Austin by _chris_ on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:10PM (#25392009)
There's a reason we wear shoes indoors in Texas...
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Re:Oracle Moving HQ to Austin by hotsauceror on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:23PM (#25395133)
And a reason we turn our boots upside down before we put them on!
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