PhineasC

Yeah, that was amazing to me. Winter never even started in MD, even Garrett County was totally hosed. But up there is still a good snowpack in mid-March.

Yes, it's still snowing hard there now.

Yeah, it's definitely encouraging to see others here all commenting on it being a great spot. Should be way more consistent than Oakland, MD. They can have really terrible winters or great winters, impossible to predict.

Just bought a house in Randolph, NH so I will send pics next winter. They got 11 inches of snow last night.

1500' or so according to the topo maps. Probably more like 1400' at the bottom of the property. I haven't been there with my GPS yet.

View from back deck (this was taken last month).

That’s not my place. I didn’t even see that one when I was looking. LOL

Thanks for your help, man. You definitely guided me to this spot by telling me the snow holes to avoid!

Sounds good. We've skied Bretton Woods many times but will be exploring the others soon.

Thanks! We are stoked. Can't wait for this damn quarantine to lift so we can start moving in. I have some experience with mountain living from Oakland, MD, but Randolph is a whole other level.

Originally just looking for land, but we found a home on a great lot with serious views and decided to pull the trigger.

Nice!

Thanks for all the input guys. We just signed a deal for a place in Randolph, NH! We settle end of May so I will be in place for next winter. Looking forward to it.

Down here in the tropics we look at ORH the same way. LOL do snow weenies in NH look at properties above the Arctic Circle and dream?

Oh, the sh*theads are here. My signal to ignore this subforum again. Bye.

I have seen some reports that this has really been similar to a very bad flu season in Lombardy and they routinely are "pushed to the brink" there because they have a marginal supply of ICU beds in that area and tons of elderly. I think we will see later that basically COVID-19 accelerated the death timeline for some old and very sick people who would have died within 12 months anyway. I know this sounds harsh, but I hope political leaders and scientists are looking at the data and not maudlin appeals. If the IFR for COVID-19 ends up around 0.3% was that worth crashing the world economy and sending us into a deep recession?

South Korea is radically different from the US. First, they are homogeneous. They all share the same culture. There are far less ethnic, social, and economic gaps in their society. Second, they are collectivist, and submission to the greater good is baked-in to the culture; way less of an independent streak than here. Third, they routinely wore face masks and practiced social distancing as a matter of course before this virus erupted; they remember SARS very well. Fourth, much, much smaller geographical footprint and the majority of the population concentrated in a few urban zones that can be closed off. Fifth, younger average population. So the comparison is not good. We are more like a giant, more diverse Italy here.

I guess because of media whitewashing and the desire for cheap shit people don't realize or refuse to acknowledge that China is a brutal dictatorship that literally has Nazi-style prison camps and actively silences dissenting voices. China will not do better next time. That's pretty much against their entire ethos.

This is exactly what SARS did. MERS too, I'm pretty sure. Not sure if that means it's common, but it happens. Zoonotic transmission is a real problem and there is a major link to Chinese wet markets and the consumption of exotic meat in general (see AIDS). A lot of nasty diseases have come from the practice of eating undercooked meat from exotic animals, and China has been an epicenter. But the West is too scared to confront the Chinese over it so this will definitely happen again.

Have the stat heads here been looking at some of the research coming out now that says the infected count is far higher than we have estimated and therefore the infected fatality ratio (IFR) is much lower? Don't listen to the case fatality ratio numbers on TV, they are all bogus. Self-selection bias is rampant because only the sickest people go to the hospital and get tested. The hospitalization rate numbers are also bogus because of this: of the sickest patients showing up in the ER, only about ~10% are admitted. That doesn't mean 10% of everyone who gets the virus will need a hospital bed... it appears 50% or more may have no symptoms at all. In a few years when COVID-19 is a seasonal disease like the flu or cold we will wonder why we crashed the world economy over it.

Coronaviruses are endemic is most mammals. No surprise it can survive in dogs and lions but not really cause a major infection, per se. Many viruses can live in other hosts and not be infectious. That's how the whole wet market virus spreading thing even happens. A bat-based coronavirus spread to another host, possibly a pangolin, and then to humans. It was seriously infectious in humans.

I would love to do that but I already have several properties and a business. I need to unload some of this sh*t to be a logger. LOL Goal would be to make this my primary in a few years so I want to be set with snow.

Yeah, I was already drooling over that one. I think I mentioned it to you in my PM. Bit too much for me to handle in terms of the amount of land. I am not a farmer or logger.

Really nice detail. Thanks for writing this up.

LOL yup this was the first place I consulted when I started looking.