mattb65

They may be floating the available beds by cancelling elective procedures but that'll only work for so long with a curve that looks like this. This is Texas. They have been doubling hospitalizations every 12 days since June 11th. If that pace continues they'll be at 16,000 hospitalizations by July 16th. That pace will definitely overwhelm local capacity quickly. Hopefully with the measures put in place last week, that doubling rate will slow significantly so that some of the current hospitalizations can start getting discharged to flatten out the hospitalization curve.

Not sure how it would be enforced. Most liberals seem to be on board with wearing masks already. If the orange guy wanted to see the 'vid get under control and the economy start roaring back then he should go all in on getting his base to join the mask wearing crowd. Not sure how he could pull that sort of 180 but he's done it before.

Care about the economy? Wear a damn mask. https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/coronavirus-mask-mandate-boost-economy-goldman-sachs From arguably the kings of capitalism - Goldman Sachs. The economy depends on keeping the virus at bay - see Texas, Florida, Arizona shutting shit down, delaying school opening, hurting the economy because of the virus. Do the simple stuff that doesn't hurt the economy, please just wear a mask.

If you look around there are some reputable organizations that are looking for aid. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/09/03/hurricane-dorian-destroyed-bahamas-heres-how-you-can-help/2194099001/ Bahamas Red Cross, Salvation Army among others - links in the USA Today story above.

Obviously. My favorite so far are the random font changes, capitalizations, hyphenations and other grammatical oddities in the SENC posts. It's like he's a living and breathing email FWD that I would get from my grandfather before he passed away.

I take back what I said before, this is the best thread going on the board right now.

The banter thread has degraded so much in the last 30 minutes that the awful posts that should be here are being posted in the main thread.

Can someone post a link to the chart that shows different model verification at each time point out to 120h that is occasionally posted. Tried to find it on google without any luck. TIA

Moco deathband is amazing, up to 9.5" on the ground and still piling up fast!

Deck pics!

Round 2 has delivered big time imby. Measured 8" on the ground, haven't been cleaning and there was some compaction during the lull. Awesome storm!

This lull is forecasted (not a lull imby, still snowing good). Radar should light up starting between 9 and 10 and move north. Looks like it may be snow showery.

A little over 5" here and it's coming down very nicely, if the NAM is to be believed there is another 7" expected today assuming 10:1 ratios. Storm has already exceeded expectations. Can't wait for daylight.

2.5" measured on the back deck, 27.5/27.3 beautiful out! Also in the crew about a mile from wheaton regional near the university towers.

NAM is actually north and more tucked in than 18z but the snow isn't quite as heavy, still showing a lot of snow, long duration storm. A bit closer to consensus.

Guidance looks like 4-8" for the metro with a jack to 10" where the best banding sets up. Some upside potential given what the NAM showed but that output is a clear outlier compared with all the other guidance thus far.

I got an updated map, all of Cape Cod, MA, USA, Earth is without power so we don't have any updated totals.

Just observing from afar - wish I was still in Boston for this one. Lots of PWS on the cape reporting sustained winds >30 mph, gotta assume it's all snow down there with low vis. Should verify blizz warning easily. Looks to be a classic E MA/SE MA crushing incoming.