By Joe

April 11, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

I was using my blower after mowing yesterday. Pretty soon I was in a cloud of it. Feels like I only have one lung now….

By GeoffDawg

April 11, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

I have some prospective inlaws coming into town next Thursday for a visit. Are we expecting at least the big, chunky, yellow pollen to be done by then?

By muffin

April 11, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

I thought the yellow stuff wasn’t what made people sneeze. It’s the stuff you can’t see that people are allergic to. regardless, i’m sure a leaf blower would kick enough allergens around that it would be an allergic’s worst nightmare. i say just leave it. let the rain wash it away.

By Mel

April 11, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

Muffin, you’re right. They say the yellow stuff we see isn’t what most people are allergic to. However, I can tell you that it sure makes my eyes feel like they’re full of sand on top of my contacts, and when it touches my skin, it makes me itch. I’ll be thankful for some rain to wash this batch away! :o)

By BiteMe

April 11, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

Just hope that we get some great rain today, that’s the only way to get a true cleansing of all this junk in the air! Sweeping and blowing it away only makes things worse.

YEAH RAIN! :)

By RK

April 11, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

My idiotic apartment complex uses leaf blowers…and all of that pollen lands on my car. But thank God the parking lot isn’t yellow!

By Blowbaby

April 11, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

You’ll have to pry my leafblower from my dead hands.

By james

April 11, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

Leaf blowers should be banned!

Leaf blowers stop people from actually picking up their trash.

My stupid neighbor blows off his driveway everyday. He has probably been blowing the same leaves around for years because he never actually scoops them up! His idea is to blow the leaves in the yards of his neighbors or into the middle of the street.

Blowing the leaves into the middle of the street doesn’t get rid of the leaves, it clogs the storm drains! And what doesn’t go down the drain probably blows back into his yard.

Leaf blowers are awesome for blowing leaves out of hard to reach places - but they are not a substitute for a rake!

By John

April 11, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

Leaf blowers and burning leaves should be banned. After all, does it really harm anybody if the leaves aren’t raked, burned or blown away?

By kellix

April 11, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

In caifornia, in Hollywood to be exact they banned leaf blowers in the morning because of the noise. Have we woken up in the morning and see the one mexican chasing that one leaf across the yard? That hes got to get that one leaf in the pile. I think they should have a noise ordinance of when they can use them and when they can’t. And they do kick up alot of Pollen. I agree James use a rake.

By mike

April 11, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this

James - you must be my neighbor - tell you what. I’ll stop blowing leaves into the street once you start trimming your bushes and trees so the crap does not fall into my yard. I built a 7 foot high wood fence so you would stop minding my own business but I guess I should have extended it all the way to the street.

By observer

April 11, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

Blogs have become stupid, faceless people mindlessly hurling insults towards each other.

By Mark

April 11, 2008 10:09 PM | Link to this

Truthfully, the use of blowers commercial or otherwise should be banned during thesmog season. They simply kick more particulates into the air and spew pollution from their engines as well.

By Suburban Genius

April 12, 2008 12:01 AM | Link to this

TRY THIS … park your car ON YOUR GRASS, and between midnight and 10:00 a.m. on your odd/even day, simply wash the pollen off your car under the premise of watering your lawn, which is allowable currently! Necessity is the mother of invention!

By John

April 12, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

I don’t really understand what blowing pollen really accomplishes. Maybe a quick remedy. Assuming the yellow stuff you blow away doesn’t just fly in the air and land back where it was, anything you blow off, will just be replaced within hours by more. We pretty much just have to wait it out this time of year. We’re all going through it. So everyone’s cars are yellow. Big deal.

And as for smog, gas leaf blowers, lawn mowers, etc are some of the worst polluters out there. There are no regulations, emissions for that sort of thing, so they just spew more crap into the air. Obviously I’m not saying don’t mow your lawn, but we can do better environmentally when it comes to landscaping.

By CBL

April 12, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Ban them from March until May. At least give us a break with some cleaner air and PEACE AND QUIET. In my opinion, they’re just noisemakers. If you want a good workout and want to keep healthy, get rid of all of the gas-powered devices and use human-powered tools like rakes and brooms. You’ll discover muscles you never knew you had.

By Miss

April 12, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

This is what is wrong with our society today. Everyone wants to mind everyone elses business. If I want to blow pollen all over MY property, than that is MY business. If you don’t like it, move out of the south. Get a grip and grow up!

By MrLiberty

April 12, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Why not ban mother nature and her wind? Water is the best way to confine the particles and get them out of the environment, either by wahsing them down the stormdrain or washing them into the soil/grass, etc. The worthless government has banned that - all because of their inability to be responsible for providing an adequate amount of water for us all- yes, government is to blame, not some drought or otherwise.

If the leaf blowers weren’t blowing it, the wind would be. Don’t like it then fight against the stupid government and quit complaining about your neighbors or their lawn services.

By Rick

April 12, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

This is far and away the dumbest idea I’ve heard regarding pollen in Georgia. The affect that leaf blowers have on pollen distribution is insignificant to everyone except the person using the leaf blower. If you have allergies, don’t use a leaf blower during pollen season, but ban leaf blowers altogether? Give me a break.

By Kill the trees

April 12, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this

All the tree huggers have created a problem by encouraging city councils to pass tree ordinances that make it difficult to take care of your property. Every spring everyone complains about the pollen the trees produce. What a bunch of friggin idiot whiners. This happens every year and every year you all whine. Here is your solution… KILL ALL THE TREES. CUT THEM ALL DOWN. ELIMINATE POLLEN TODAY. ANY HOMEOWNER WITH TREES ON THEIR PROPERTY WILL BE FINED.

By Dick

April 12, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

I would like to ban OTP thought. The burbs are full of morons. Please stay out of the city we don’t want you around. Enjoy red lobster you are all a bunch of human lemmings marching to the mall and then of to chilli’s. Please.

By Moses

April 12, 2008 7:47 PM | Link to this

Where is Charlton Heston when we need him…..”pry my dead fingers off MY leaf blower!”

By Make my day

April 13, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

When leaf blowers are outlawed, only outlaws will have leaf blowers….

By Stihl Crazy After All These Years

April 13, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

Libs,

You cannot be anti-blower and pro-immigration. Think about it—you’re boxed in.

By Jose

April 13, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

who cares about the drought everyone should wash off their car anyway…. not saying to go ahead a wash your car with soup because it will take longer… if your neighbor turns you in then they are b*******!

By yousayyourefromatlanta&dontknowwheretheparkis

April 13, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

Haha… lemmings that spend hours stuck on 285 while their lives waste away… and when they’re not doing that they blog about leaf blowers or their “lawn” or other uninteresting crap. OTPers, your lifestyle is killing the earth. You suck.

By Bob

April 13, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

I had my youngest son sweep the porches earlier today. If I’d thought about using the leaf blower I’d have saved him some time. I can hear one of my neighbors out there blowing now.

By Noelle

April 13, 2008 10:05 PM | Link to this

Amen Observer - I am always amazed when I read the vents in the AJC. DO unto other as you would have them do unto you. Kellix your comment is rude.

By Confound it all, Man

April 13, 2008 10:25 PM | Link to this

What are ITPers so jealous about? Are they not happy with their choice/lifestyle?

By AncientOne

April 13, 2008 10:34 PM | Link to this

It will never happen, but it would be fine with me if leaf blowers were banned…. Period! The noise pollution is as bad as the pollen problem, and one gets a wee bit tired of seeing folks getting paid to blow debris into roadways and down drainage culverts. Whatever happened to rakes and mulching lawnmowers?

By MJ

April 14, 2008 7:33 AM | Link to this

Leaf blowers should be banned, period. I hate those things. And they are such a waste of time and the noise is horrible.

By Katie

April 14, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

I will keep using my leaf blower for leaves and pine needles. I don’t waste my time with the yellow pollen though, that goes away after a few weeks. If my neighbors can’t handle the sound of the blower for 15 minutes a week, then too bad for them. It’s not like I’m using it all day every day. Besides, my rights are just as important as theirs.

By DB

April 14, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

If you have alergies, how about wearing a mask? Lord what a bunch of whiners.

By JJ

April 14, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

AncientOne I feel the same way.

My daughter gets mad because I make her rake the leaves, (even though we have a blower in the garage). It’s great exercise, and a good punishment for bad choices……for instance, my daughter snuck out of the house when she was 14, and her punishment was to rake our entire back yard of leaves. She raked up 10 bags, and has not snuck out of the house since!!!

By James

April 14, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Mike, I am not your neighbor. How do I know? I wish my neighbor had a fence!!

My yard doesn’t impose on any of my neighbors. I keep it neat, trimmed and RAKED.

And I clean up the yard debris - I don’t blow it all over the place. That’s right. I put it all on a nice tarp, and drag it out to my composting area.

I am OTP - and I stay OTP for work and play and so do many I know - so, itp - you are ruining the city on your own, take responsibility and take action. Blame accomplishes nothing.

By Beverly Crawford

April 15, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

Pollen counts. Blowers. Yeah, it was annoying for a while till I solved the problem by setting fire to my lawn every fall and every spring. The pollen goes up like a bomb. That way I also enjoy all the benefits of first second and third generation tree growth. My quarter-acre is like a tree nursery where trees exist in all stages of development, from a single acorn split open by the fire and implanted by those infernal squirrels to the death of 150 foot tall trees where the wind blows them onto my neighbor’s garage.

But nothing stopped my neighbors from leaf blowing at 6am on sunday morning till I started using fire. Now there’s not a home or a dwelling within a 1000 yards of my house, and I live happily ever after.

Lovin’ life here.

By Racebaiter

April 19, 2008 8:26 PM | Link to this

Landscaping crew? You can just say “illegals.” It’s just as accurate.

By Gardener

August 3, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this

We have to get rid of the leaves. They clog street drains, provide cover for insect pests, smother grass, and stain concrete walks and driveways. Just buy a mulcher blower. It sucks the leaves into a bag and grinds them up. You can then use the stuff as mulch around your plants.

By Edie

August 20, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

I can’t stand those leaf blowers. They are horirble on so many levels but I know they make me suffer from allergies.