Are you ready for the "cold front"?

[spurs=bling]

I sure am!

I love cold weather...

Let It Snow!

no snow it will only make my ankle hurt more.

[LuvBones]

I'm not ready. I need gloves and a heavy jacket!

[Old School Chic]

Theraflu works wonders...

[SpursWoman]

A single shot of Nyquil knocked me out like a sledge hammer last night ... I was just trying to get through the day so I can go home and bury myself under a blanket.

I stopped at Walgreen's for some Tylenol Cold and had to take the little card back to the pharmacy, show my ID and get logged into a binder.

[Shelly]

Are you sure y'all didn't get hit by the mountain cedar? If my oldest and I don't start using Flonase daily at the beginning of Nov, we get knocked on our asses by it.

[pache100]

I stopped at Walgreen's for some Tylenol Cold and had to take the little card back to the pharmacy, show my ID and get logged into a binder.

See, they think you're running a meth lab, too.

[Taco]

http://www.weather.com/outlook/healt...pnav_allergies

Check this out

the second temp is wind chill


Hour-by-Hour Forecast for
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Wed, December 7
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Evening Commute Health Video - Dr. Anna Marie

4pm Few Showers
36°F
26°F 30% 34°F 82% From NNE 16 mph

5pm Light Freezing Rain
26°F
14°F 40% 26°F 100% From NNE 15 mph

Sunset 5:36 pm Take an Allergies Quiz

6pm Light Freezing Rain
27°F
15°F 40% 27°F 100% From NNE 15 mph

7pm Light Freezing Rain
28°F
16°F 40% 28°F 95% From N 16 mph

8pm Freezing Drizzle
28°F
16°F 30% 28°F 100% From N 17 mph

9pm Freezing Drizzle
29°F
17°F 30% 29°F 95% From N 17 mph

10pm Freezing Drizzle
32°F
21°F 30% 31°F 95% From N 17 mph

11pm Freezing Drizzle
32°F
21°F 30% 30°F 90% From N 16 mph

Thu, December 8 Allergies Help Clinic

12am Freezing Drizzle
32°F
21°F 30% 29°F 86% From N 16 mph

1am Freezing Drizzle
32°F
21°F 30% 28°F 82% From N 16 mph

2am Freezing Drizzle
32°F
21°F 30% 27°F 78% From N 16 mph

3am Freezing Drizzle
32°F
21°F 30% 26°F 74% From N 16 mph

[sa_butta]

LJ and I both have colds too. I thought it was allergies at first. But since LJ has it too then I guess it's a cold.

We took Theraflu last night instead of NyQuil. It worked pretty well.

I cant stand the taste of that , do the pills work just as well.

[sa_butta]

http://www.weather.com/weather/hourb...nav_undeclared
Holy crap 24 degrees and will feel like 10 degrees at 5pm. That is effing cold for SA.

[midgetonadonkey]

I'm praying they close the University tomorrow. It sucks I have to drive home at 830 when the forecasted rain is supposed to be here.

[Ishta]

Looks like I'll be leaving work early today!!

[Kori Ellis]

I cant stand the taste of that , do the pills work just as well.

No, the pills don't. But they have a lot of flavors of Theraflu now. We drank the apple cider one last night. It's not as disgusting as some of the others.

[spurs=bling]

http://www.weather.com/weather/hourb...nav_undeclared
Holy crap 24 degrees and will feel like 10 degrees at 5pm. That is effing cold for SA.

please tell me that is only for SA please

[Taco]

please tell me that is only for SA please

SA temps

[SpursWoman]

Are you sure y'all didn't get hit by the mountain cedar? If my oldest and I don't start using Flonase daily at the beginning of Nov, we get knocked on our asses by it.

Is the cedar bad? It's hard to say...both of my kids had strep throat last week and Chris has had something nasty, too.

[SpursWoman]

See, they think you're running a meth lab, too.

You walk in there looking like a death-warmed over Rudolph and sounding like you've got a clothes pin stuck on your nose and you still get the binder treatment.

[sa_butta]

No, the pills don't. But they have a lot of flavors of Theraflu now. We drank the apple cider one last night. It's not as disgusting as some of the others.

I will pick some up on the way home tonight, everyone is sick at our house.
My poor baby has a runny nose, but it is funny cause she laughs when she sneezes. Ive been giving her the tylenol cold and cough.

[SequSpur]

I am growing my hair back.

[Shelly]

Is the cedar bad? It's hard to say...both of my kids had strep throat last week and Chris has had something nasty, too.

Cedar is horrible and you will feel awful (for me, it's the stuffy nose) until it's out of here, which is usually FEBRUARY. But since a lot of y'all are having the same symptoms, I wouldn't be surprised if that's it, since this exactly the time of year it blows in from those Canadian fronts.

2 years ago, I started using Flonase daily starting in November and haven't been hit with it the past two years.

[SpursWoman]

I am growing my hair back.

Oh, man ... I wanna see!!!

[midgetonadonkey]

I am growing my hair back.

At first glance I thought you typed "I'm growing my back hair."

[spurs=bling]

SA temps

thank God because i was going to cry.

i hope it doesn't get too cold here, physical therapy is painful enough and add cold to it wouldn't help any

[SpursWoman]

Cedar is horrible and you will feel awful (for me, it's the stuffy nose) until it's out of here, which is usually FEBRUARY. But since a lot of y'all are having the same symptoms, I wouldn't be surprised if that's it, since this exactly the time of year it blows in from those Canadian fronts.

2 years ago, I started using Flonase daily starting in November and haven't been hit with it the past two years.

I know it can get bad ... we had Thanksgiving Dinner at Tapatio Springs a month before I graduated from college ... the very weekend the first of it blew into the Hill Country and we were right in the middle of it. I walked the stage with 104 fever and pnemonia..still sick from that ... but for what I had to pay to get there, they could have wheeled me across on a gurney...I was going to be there.

[Shelly]

Face it. It's part of being a Texan. The trees are here to stay, and so is the allergy.



The signs are unmistakable: the eyes burn and turn fiery red; the nose runs; the insides of the ears itch. Incessant sneezing--up to

two or three hundred times a day--leaves some victims exhausted. On top of this, an insidious malaise sets in, making it hard to do anything but stare vacantly at the wall, while at the same time a nagging little voice says, "Get up. It's just an allergy."

But cedar fever is not just any allergy. It's a scourge, a plague that smites the just and the unjust who have the misfortune to live anywhere in a broad strip of Central Texas that stretches from the Red River to the Rio Grande. The progenitor of all this misery is a medium-sized, frankly undistinguished tree with sinewy limbs covered in shaggy bark that vaguely resembles orangutan fur. Despite its common name, the mountain cedar is actually a juniper (Juniperus ashei). Every year around December, we blunder into the midst of the cedar's mating ritual. It begins with the appearance of the male cones--embarrassingly small, amber-colored structures no larger than a grain of rice. In good years (or bad, depending on your viewpoint) they blanket the tops of the trees, turning them an aggressive tawny orange. When the wind rises, great gritty clouds of the pollen drift aloft, making the woods look like they are aflame. This airborne milt can waft for miles until it runs into something sticky, like the small green cone of the female tree or the inside of your nose.

Once cedar pollen gets into your system, its evil nature is revealed. Compared with it, ragweed is a wimp. The key is the biochemical structure of cedar pollen's protein coat, which appears to have properties that make it unusually noxious. Then there's the sheer quan y of the grains. In a rainy year the trees produce tons, and the pollen count, the Richter scale of allergy, goes through the roof.

If mountain cedar causes so much trouble, some sufferers have raged (between sneezes), why not clear it out? It's a health hazard, it robs grazing land of water, and unlike its cousin Juniperus communis, you can't make gin out of the berries (too bad, because a mountain cedar martini could be a surefire way to forget your allergy woes). The trouble with cutting down the cedars is that it would be ecologically unwise, not to mention impossible. They cover many of the 24 million acres of the Edwards Plateau, providing drought-tolerant, year-round greenery for erosion control, stock and wildlife shelter, and the raw materials for the fence-post industry. Physically and philosophically, cedar defines Central Texas. You can no more think of that terrain without cedar than without live oak or limestone. Sentimentalists would also insist that the resinous aroma of cedar-wood campfire on a starry autumn night is one of the things that makes life worth living.

Sentimentalism scores no points with allergy sufferers, though. What they want is relief. Temporary palliatives include the usual antihistamines and decongestants, plus a sodium cromolyn spray that has been used with good effect in England. Truly wretched cases may qualify for cortisone, but the drug's side effects make it a last resort. Nutritionists have a theory that any allergy fans the flames of stress, and they suggest taking pantothenic acid (a B vitamin), zinc, or vitamin C. Omitting beef and yeast foods can ameliorate attacks in some instances. But the one thing cedar fever victims can't do is escape their destiny. Those who are fated to develop symptoms usually do so after a couple of seasons, but some have been smitten after ten, even twenty smug years.

Eventually most of the afflicted end up at an allergist's office for a series of shots that help about 75 per cent of the time. Allergists can reassure you that you don't have a cold (it runs its course in a week) or a fever (you just feel flushed). What they can't tell you is why you can build immunity by injecting the irritant but not by breathing it. If all else fails, your only recourse may be to leave town for the duration; that was the preferred treatment of writer J. Frank Dobie.

The obsession with nostrums and the wild talk about eradicating the mountain cedar miss a perverse but essential point: cedar fever is part of being a Texan. Other places suffer the malady, to be sure, but none of them have Juniperus ashei. It's our own personal poison, part of Mother Nature's hazing ritual designed just for Texans, and those who have been initiated wear the affliction like a red badge of courage. After all, we are in a war zone.

http://pollen.utulsa.edu/cedar.html

[Kori Ellis]

Cedar is horrible and you will feel awful (for me, it's the stuffy nose) until it's out of here, which is usually FEBRUARY. But since a lot of y'all are having the same symptoms, I wouldn't be surprised if that's it, since this exactly the time of year it blows in from those Canadian fronts.

2 years ago, I started using Flonase daily starting in November and haven't been hit with it the past two years.

I thought the first day I was getting sick that it was Cedar. But LJ doesn't get affected by Cedar and he got sick .. so I changed my mind and decided it was a cold. Who knows though. I took some Tylenol Allergy just in case.