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Citizen complaint of the day: Yellow paint flowing into Fort Point Channel
By adamg on Sun, 06/07/2020 - 2:50pm
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the yellow paint coating the rocks and flowing into the water along Fort Point Channel on the South Boston side between the Summer Street Bridge and the Gillette plant.
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Pollen?
Pollen?
No.
Toxic meteor.
Not to 'actually' this but...
could that be pollen washing down from the huge rainfall yesterday?
yes
n/t
Yup
That's pollen. Happens every year. Makes a great visual tracker for runoff impacts on waterways.
That was my thought.
I took a walk from my house in the South End to the Esplanade last night between storms and noticed how much pollen had been knocked off the trees and out of the atmosphere and collected around the puddles. I think maple, honey locust, and linden trees are in bloom around this time of year, so that may very well be the source.
Pine trees
See Adam's comment below. Happens every year, but they're especially horny this time.
Good to know
I saw the same thing out my window this morning. There is a storm drain in the alleyway/parking lot behind my building that overflows with the slightest rainfall, and the (guessing) 15 foot puddle was ringed with this yellowish substance. This afternoon the residue remains even though the water has mostly receded. I'm glad to know that it's not something more toxic.
Oh no
Wait till they learn about the annual Plant Bukkake...
Definitely pollen. The
Definitely pollen. The puddles all around Forest Hills station next to Arborway have the same stuff floating in it.
My red car was covered in
My red car was covered in yellow splotches yesterday and now it is covered again.
I don't know why...
But this comment is making me crave McDonald's...
People are snitching on Mother Nature
She won't be happy.
Yellow paint?!
How a-pollen-g!
no fair
Why is it that plants get to have messy sex outside and we are all tasked with cleaning up after them??
I wanna talk to a manager...
Don't fret, says group that knows about these things
Pollen Haboob
Not sure how to embed Twitter posts, but BlueHill Observatory posted a pollen haboob coming in
front of yesterday's storms:
https://twitter.com/bhobservatory/status/126935500...
heh heh
heh. you said "haboob"
(yes, sometimes I have the mind of a 12 year old boy)
similar
I'm totally amazed that I've gotten as far in life as I have when I haven't matured mentally much beyond a 14 year old.
to some of us
it feels like a toxic meteor!
I'm jealous
I'm jealous of people who aren't as finely attuned to pollen as some of us are. (sniffle, sniffle, aaah-chooo!)
Wear a mask?
I mean...it's even fashionable right now.