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We are firmly on to Deer Fly season, they have been out for a little while now. Still some lingering black flies though too. I only ever remember worrying about mosquitoes growing up in SEPA. It really is ridiculous up here with the bugs...lol. Serious rain shield in effect here..no rain for 15 days and then only .19" last night.

Just like any window AC, you have to take screen out if it's not a sliding screen. My screen slides up, but is still unusable with this. Basically you can open window, but there won't be any screen. Unless you jimmy rigged something I guess.

Yea Steve, I have all 4 units on the app and can control them individually.

Ha, me too. I watched youtube videos. Honestly, they do have a nice straight forward easy to understand system for install, but its not the 30 second set it and forget of my old units.

Yea, that is basically what I read as well. I pretty sure have posted before about how inefficient some of those portable units can be, what a difference when I got rid of my ratty 9K portable and went to the 12K Midea.

I have a 12K, 10K and two 8K's. I was coming from 3 old crappy Walmart units and a 15 year old portable unit. They really are unbelievably quiet. My window units were 5K and portable 9K, so it was upgrade in every sense for me. It is really nice to be able to be out all day and use the app and have run them for a few hours so it is cool when you get home. I know alot of window units now have wifi, but this was a change for me. I think SJones or someone mentioned that is kind of nice to have the extra light as well, they actually look pretty nice from the inside aesthetically. I wouldn't say they are difficult to install, but a bit tedious. I am definitely happy with them considering what I was coming from, total night and day.

I had no idea about that rebate until you posted that last night. I bought 4 of those suckers last year, guess time to get my $400.

Wow, pretty quick drop to 59F by 9pm. You might be the coolest spot in NNE right now..or one of. Outside of some spot right on the water. 69F here.

Judging by some of the responses here, does seem a little high, maybe I could find something closer to 20K. He said something like, "We're not the cheapest, but we are the best". Ha. I guess I kind of went in a little blind not doing a ton of research on overall cost and didn't factor in the pretty high labor costs.

Yep, I got one cut in this year and my lawn is starting to brown in spots. I don't even think some of it came out of dormancy from winter--just straight from that tan /brown winter color to that dry/drought brown color...

How many wall mounted? I got a quote for 5 wall mounted and 2 outside condenser units and think it was 25-26K. I guess had a little sticker shock, so I am sticking with the Midea's I bought last year for now...lol. Granted, that was only 1 quote, I didn't totally shop around, but figured other would be in that neighborhood, even if a cheaper.

The NNE time honored tradition of black fly season has commenced in this area of SVT. Today was the first day they were noticeably annoying.

Epitome of a late season snow map..

I don't have the bags so I don't know. You may be right the amount applied could be similar based on how many sq feet the bag says it covers. Maybe the 30-0-5 just covers more area and the amount applied could be similar to the 19-0-7. Depends of spreader settings and number of factors I guess. I don't ever use those Combo Fert and Dimension products personally. The only true way to determine the Nitrogen would be to see the labels.

I would use the 19-0-7 just because I don't think you need to drop that much nitrogen in spring (the 30 number in the 30-0-5).

When I was looking at this last night figured you were probably still buried with your retention.

It definitely seems to be a combination of cost and "VT character". The cost is probably the overwhelming factor though. https://www.treehugger.com/why-one-vermont-town-tearing-asphalt-instead-repairing-potholes-4867361 Just the name of this website says it all . I like this snippet from the article: Back in 2008, the New York Times reported that a “citizens’ uprising” was borne in the town of Brookfield, just south of Montpelier, when officials announced plans to pave a half-mile stretch of dirt road. Mortified by the prospect of the road in question being desecrated with asphalt, town residents banded together and fought back. The road was never paved. At the time, Vermont boasted 6,000 miles of paved road — and 8,000 miles of unpaved roads.

@powderfreakand @PhineasC---Nice guys! I will probably get a quote done in the next few weeks to see the cost. My house gets zero shade in mid summer and I hate any dews above 58F..lol. I run my window ACs all the time in the summer, I need it icy to sleep and just be comfortable in general.

I think I saw you mention in some other post about putting in AC. Are you doing mini-splits or full duct work AC? I'm maybe one more humid summer away from doing a full mini-split install. Every summer is more dewy than the last it seems.

You can pretty edge anytime the ground is not frozen. I personally wont do it here yet because the ground is mush. Might be different down by you.

I'm guessing there is some empirical data backing up these comments: Simply put, darkness kills. And darkness in the evening is far deadlier than darkness in the morning," University of Washington professor Steve Calandrillo said. "The evening rush hour is twice as fatal as the morning for various reasons — far more people are on the road, more alcohol is in drivers' bloodstream, people are hurrying to get home, and more children are enjoying outdoor, unsupervised play."

Winds were NW the whole event, not the usual E/SE/NE then switching to NW on the backside. Looking at terrain map you can see how that flow would be pretty brutal there.

Savoy had 8" and Cheshire 6.5". I think the NW wind definitely played some part in the lower totals in your area up through Brattleboro and much of SEVT with all the higher terrain to the west.

Hasn't been much of the Woodford Cloud this winter, but this event delivered. There also was that steamer that I dont think was totally upslope driven that drove up totals too I think, maybe just enhanced totals even a bit more than just normal upslope.

Below forecasted total again here which is kind of expected this winter..lol. 6.1" was final. Still a nice winter scene out there this morning. Interestingly looked like only a couple inches center of Manchester over to the west side of town. Looked much more windblown than here.