I'm allergic to them, too- allergic to the pollen early in the year and then, later, when the fuzz gets on my skin I break out in a red rash where it touches me. Which is bad, because like you say, it can look like a covering of snow, except I have to mow under said fuzz- which means I'm moving through a tornado of allergen. Gah. Although I think one of the things that upsets me most is the fuzz germinating everywhere in the garden, and if a bunch of it lands in a potted plant it rots the plant.