As if the pollen wasn't bad enough...

[Desertnate]

Spring is just now starting to appear in my area, but for once all the pollen we normally get isn't the real problem this time. It's DUST!

Even before the storms and tornados rolled through our area last week we've head day of consistent high winds and it's carrying large amounts of dust from Texas and Oklahoma. Last week it actually rained mud. Now, it's just non stop dust fall covering everything. Everyone's cars are turning beige!

I normally do a heavy pre-rinse with the hose or pressure washer anyway, and now I'll have to be very sure to get the airborne sand paper off the car before I touch them. Fortunately it's a fine powder and with all our cars being coated, easily rinses away. Of course with it accumulating like it is, there is little point in washing right now as the cars will get dirty while I'm washing them.

I encountered this when we lived in Oklahoma, and would expect it in desert areas like Arizona and Nevada, but never thought it would be a problem this far north and east.

Any tips or something I'm missing other than riding it out?

 

[Setec Astronomy]

No tips, but here in NJ we also have been having these, what seem to me, unusual windy spells that go on for days, we just started into another one here.

 

[Tasmania]

Spring is just now starting to appear in my area, but for once all the pollen we normally get isn't the real problem this time. It's DUST!

Even before the storms and tornados rolled through our area last week we've head day of consistent high winds and it's carrying large amounts of dust from Texas and Oklahoma. Last week it actually rained mud. Now, it's just non stop dust fall covering everything. Everyone's cars are turning beige!

I normally do a heavy pre-rinse with the hose or pressure washer anyway, and now I'll have to be very sure to get the airborne sand paper off the car before I touch them. Fortunately it's a fine powder and with all our cars being coated, easily rinses away. Of course with it accumulating like it is, there is little point in washing right now as the cars will get dirty while I'm washing them.

I encountered this when we lived in Oklahoma, and would expect it in desert areas like Arizona and Nevada, but never thought it would be a problem this far north and east.

Any tips or something I'm missing other than riding it out?

We get it here in Summer, Mud rain and it's a