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Nice, how many passes can you do before you have to dump it?

The worst. I just decided to delay any leaf cleanup this year until like 70% are down. I was going to do a cleanup last weekend and glad I didn't, it became S+ leaf drop with .25 mile VIS later that day. Would have driven me mad.

Sums it really, the 100k-200k income earners just sitting tight. I will say almost everyone of our friends or kids friends parents already owned pre-Covid, even those with alot of equity in their home, it doesn't make sense because as it would just be a lateral move with a higher interest rate even with a massive down-payment. The 1 million+ housing market is interesting, those rarely sold pre covid, those just sat forever and ever. Now, going like hotcakes..lol.

There was a glut of housing pre-covid in this area where houses had literally been sitting on the market for years in some cases. It's amazing how picky we were able to be when shopping around for housing, listing agents would send multiple follow up emails and phone calls for a house we saw that we had really had no interest in buying, trying everything they could to make it seem appealing. Now its get us your best and final 3 days after it's listed. Many service industry, blue collar, etc were still priced out even back pre 2020. (At least in Manchester/Dorset,etc) There were not a ton of long term rentals, but definitely some, those have seemed to vanish with owners wanting to cash out on the market. Most service industry from here live over the border in ENY--Granville, Greenwich, Hoosick Falls when there are rentals and much cheaper housing. The 250k-500k homes pre covid are the real killer. Those were still in reach for many locals around here--Teachers, law enforcement, steady 2 income family, small business owner, Orvis workforce, etc. Those are now 550k-1Mil at 7% with about half going to CASH buyers. Some of the places where new students have come from in my kids classes--Seattle, Boston, NYC, NJ, DC, Florida, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, CT. They had to add a third class in my daughters 5th grade. The family from Seattle literally just did a Google search and moved here, never had been to VT before. They did a zoom tour of house and bought it no inspection, obviously sight unseen(well in person at least), drove cross country and realized the house had no basement when they went inside and tried to find the door to it. When you are going against 10 offers, you might miss some stuff you would think is standard.(I'm sure there are plenty of remote buying stories like that) Hard to compete in a small town with limited inventory when the buyer pool is national. There has definitely been a ground swell to get affordable housing options has been mentioned by you and Alex and others. Zoning, Height restrictions, red tape stuff always seems to pop up thought before even getting off the ground.

I was thinking that. He was foliage king, drove all over NE every year it seemd.

No frost or freeze yet here. Clouds or wind have thrown a wrench in any radiating night.

Definitely past peak down in Mitch's hood. Woodford, Searsburg, Wilmington etc had almost no vibrant reds or oranges between 1400-2k. Interestingly it looks much better up here in the same elevation range in the Magic, Stratton, Bromley area.

One thing i have noticed this year that is different from other years, is that in recent years the Maples in the low elevations around town and under 1k just have not looked that great for whatever reason. But man, there are some intense Reds and Oranges that are on a different level so far.

We are usually behind you guys, but its already looking really good down here too, fruity pebbles color splashing the mid slopes. I mean you cant draw up the weather any better--no wind, no rain, cool nights and sunny days.

Nice shots everyone...should be pretty good timing down here for Columbus day weekend for the peepers...got some family coming into town that has never been to VT in fall, should be a good show for them.

Did he get the boot from amwx? Or just suspended?

It is definitely going to green up, but there will probably be some dead spots too. Just too dry for there not to be some die off, but you will have no clue what is dead and not unless you wait a bit.

Thinking about grabbing one? JSpin cocorahs average looks like 150" at 500'. So adjust accordingly up from there . I think that's Jspins home mountain and lives right there, so he would certainly be dialed in I would think. Your guess seams reasonable. @J.Spin @powderfreak

We feel the same way, knowing really any day could be the last. Ours was 3 months old when we got him. Also tried the indoor route, but just no way. 10 or 11 years old in VT is pretty nice run as an outdoor cat. He kills so much stuff, its kind of shocking..ha. I find random corpses around the yard all the time.

Yea, we have that worry here too. Our cat was a barn cat and was an outside cat from the day we got him. Worst part is he loves to be out at night.

My cat is less than a year old and has easily killed 100 this summer. Its been great..lol.

Yep.

Just about 15" here last 2 months..lol. That seems like an anomaly even here in VT looking at the reports though.

What do you have past 60 days? Just peeked at Cocorahs and there are a couple stations under 1" past 60 days in MA--Yarmouth and Harwich. A Chatham observer at .46"--that's another level of Stein. Looks like they have got some this morning though.

Seeing these pics is kind of crazy, if you made the quick drive over the border up here, you would think its the Congo or something. Realize that is not the norm in NE obviously and some of it is just dumb luck. Hate to even say have almost another 1" today..lol.

Right, just took a look. Still looks warm with current soil temp at 80F in the tropics down there. Looking at the historical graph, the averages soil temp drops quickly in September based on 5 and 10 year data. He could probably wait, but still think he could drop soon. But you guys have more time down there for sure. Soil temp was 59F last year on Halloween. https://www.greencastonline.com/tools/soil-temperature

Its go time IMO. Like I mentioned before, it all comes down to irrigation and if you can water or your going to rely on rain alone. Thats the biggest success/fail factor.

There are a lot of cocorahs stations between 1-2" for AUG. Like you said probably just radar hallucinations and BTV radar beam. Today will put a few stations with higher end totals for AUG, prob more SVT and CVT.

Not in real time, I had to manually turn the little screws/bolts a turn or so. Trial and error like you said, but get a stratus so you can compare rain events. I would check with dendrite first before you do anything..lol. Basically below: Each counterclockwise movement of the stops by one flat of the hexagon raises the stop and hence increases the rainfall recorded by the gauge by approximately 1% (per flat). So one complete revolution of the stop would cause roughly a 6% increase in recorded rainfall. (Raising the stop – ie a movement in the +ve counterclockwise direction – decreases the weight of rain needed to cause a tip of the buckets and hence a given rainfall amount generates more bucket tips and thus a higher rainfall reading); Each of the two stops must be adjusted by an equal amount (and obviously in the same direction);