North Balti Zen

Yeah, gonna miss rain again. Definitely dry here now.

Dry for my 'hood in Balt City. This checks out.

Still humid as hell here. We just got some rain for about 15 minutes from the cell that was producing a potential tornado near Columbia. Sun is out. Perhaps enough juice left for a round 2?

Huh. I literally just took out a nest of that size from bushes in my front yard about a week ago. Probably cousins of those in your yard.

Ian and HM on twitter in a back and forth say cloud cover not an issue with this kind of set-up, fwiw.

I take it back. The sun lost it's battle at the harbor. Back to full clouds. it feels like the last time we had actual clearing and sun/excellent heat up my way ahead of potential storms was the Derecho. I mean, i know it hasn't been that long, but....feels like it. We sock in clouds almost 100% of the time on days like this.

It hasn’t rained here in my part of balt city in at least week - storms get painfully close then slide by.

Hazy sunshine filtering through at the inner harbor.

Glancing at radar and looping it - appears to me the MCS in Ohio doesn't screw things up really for areas south and west either (cross thread reference to LWX morning disco)

you can set your watch by the misses around here of late.

I mean - I went to Maryland Live yesterday for a poker tourney. The poker room there is on two floors - and the tourney was on the second floor. No windows. One stairwell and an elevator. I am vaccinated. Did I wear a mask the entirety of my stay in the tourney? Yes, yes I did. Would I wear my mask while outside at a sporting event? I would not. I can judge relative risk and act accordingly. What is so hard about this for some? Given the easy spread of Delta variant, despite everyone in my house being vaccinated, as well as my co-workers, still doesn't hurt me to mask up in that scenario to help reduce the already vastly diminished risk of ending up a passive carrier of the variant. Given that my wife tutors young children in the summer who are not vaccine eligible, this is, almost literally the least I could do to help. Just bizarre to get mad at people who continue to want to try and help curb the spread - even when vaccinated. Doubly infuriating because if folks had just gotten the damn shot already, we are not dealing with this on this level.

He's just the worst.

Had a small storm pop up over the house in north baltimore city. so at least will salvage a little moisture.

there were posts on it in the disc/obs thread from a few over that way

outside the stadium - but there was real confusion in the stadium as the shots were clear and hard to tell where they were coming from

So sorry, map. Will hold a thought for you and your family.

Went for a walk w/ the pup at Quiet Waters to the dog beach - got there at 8: 30 am - already 86. Got home back here in Baltimore a bit ago and was at 92. Really, not great. Immediately soaked from the wet air.

Well done H2O.

Much appreciated! That's promising. Ideally, I will be looking for a rental when the time comes, but perhaps the right opportunity would pique an interest to buy again.

I am not early retirement fancy like H20, but with the second child starting his second year at college, the better half and I are musing about down-sizing. Probably with an eye toward selling next spring. Not sure I want to buy again around here at our age (cough50cough) when we will want to eventually retire and live elsewhere. But that means maybe the freedom to rent for awhile, which brings me to this - anecdotally (and acknowledging that it is next year I am musing about) - anyone up in the Carroll County/Balt County/Harford County areas got an idea what the home rental markets/availabilities are like in general up that way? My wife teaches currently in a Balt County independent school so moving north in search of a little cooler temps and better snow chance is a thing I can dream on a bit while we figure out the longer range gameplan for retirement years.

It's an unfortunate rinse and repeat cycle. Given the humidity, almost literally on the rinse part.

Gross out.