Central North Carolina gets its share of severe weather — spring thunderstorms strong enough to drop oaks across a driveway, the occasional ice storm in January, and the remnants of hurricanes that roll through Durham, Wake, and Orange counties late in the summer and into fall. Once the wind dies down, most people are left…
Raleigh's tree canopy is part of what makes neighborhoods like Five Points, Hayes Barton and North Hills feel the way they do, right up until late October, when that same canopy turns into weeks of raking. Fall yard cleanup here isn't a single Saturday project so much as an ongoing one, and it's worth knowing…
Spring cleaning tends to produce two piles in every Raleigh household: the stuff that's obviously trash, and the much bigger pile of stuff that's just taking up space — old furniture, clothes that don't fit anyone anymore, electronics nobody's turned on in years. The instinct is to haul it all to the curb at once….