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Ha, it was great content and you did a really good job delivering it, and at an audience-appropriate level. I enjoyed it. You handled the questions pretty well at the end, too, which isn't always easy.

What a nice surprise, @OceanStWx is doing my spotter training tonight.

Apologies if this has been posted already. I found it sound and informative. https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-the-coronavirus-is-spread-through-the-air.html?ssm=TW_CC If I had to guess, I suspect the recent surges (not just in the US) are due to relatively small, familial/friend gatherings indoors where all 3 measures in the article (masks, airflow, duration) are ignored.

Genuine question: do those filters work on both inhale and exhale? I thought the primary goal of wearing masks was to prevent you from potentially spreading it to someone else. 43°F off a low of 34°F

I think you're dramatizing his idea a little. It sounds pretty responsible to me. Probably a good way to have a semi-normal holiday gathering without putting the family and community at greater risk. How does that make him a kool-aid drinker?

"If it bleeds, it leads." I think COVID will continue to dominate the news regardless of who's in the oval office.

Nothing wrong with questioning studies, or wanting to understand methodologies. But to me that graph is just common sense at this point, regardless of validity.

Tourism didn't miss a beat in NNE this summer. In fact it felt busier in the PWM area than past years. The major outbreaks in Maine have been linked to Churches and a wedding, both where people were indoors and unmasked. I haven't heard of any outbreaks related to out of staters.

Amazing photo. Wow. I remember sitting on Ferry in June a few years ago looking over the train tracks thinking "that's a curious cloud". When it hadn't moved 20 minutes later I realized it was the snow on top of MWN.

I can walk a mile up the street and see it here in South Portland, as long as it's not shrouded in clouds.

Yeah I never bother to call as only time did an outage last more than a few seconds (3 hours). Its not just y house either, the whole street/neighborhood goes down.

Same exact thing happens here, so bizarre

Yessah, that's him. He was in Scarborough on Tuesday, in my neighborhood on the Scarborough line last night, found his way across town by morning. Wonder if he got run off his turf by a bigger bull. Certainly no mates in the area.

Moose just hanging on the beach in South Portland. Been strutting around town the past 2 days.

0.44" here, making that 0.70" for the month.

Apologies, I should have clarified. My statement should have read: Bodes well for other indoor weddings where people are carrying on as if times were normal. I have a friend getting married next weekend indoors - DJ, open bar, no reduction in the invitation list. No mention of masks in the invitation. So they're leaving it up to the attendees; maybe some will wear and some will won't, but unless everyone does it kind of defeats the purpose. There are plenty of weddings taking place where people have made modifications. Smaller size, outdoors, mask wearing. Agreed, you won't hear about those, and that is completely biased. Having an indoor wedding right now with no modifications is a bad idea regardless of media agenda.

Yep, and none of the deceased attended the wedding. All secondary spread. Bodes well for other indoor weddings happening over the next month. People are selfish/dumb.

I agree, after the election results are announced there will be chaos. Unless you live in a major city the best thing you can do is turn off your TV and log out of twitter/reddit/facebook. Because you're not going to see chaos in suburbantown USA. But if you sit glued to the TV/internet then yeah, you're going to think that's reality everywhere, including your backyard. Social media is poison (I understand this is social media, too) and perception is spoon fed - you can choose to keep your mouth open or not.

As is his congregations choir......

The Pastor from that wedding is making sure he does his part to help the spread in the Sanford community.

I think it's probably best for you to get rid of Facebook, it's clearly impacting your perception. Getting rid of facebook is a fantastic move for everyone, in general, but if reading this stuff is impacting your psyche and experience this much, probably best to shut it down.

My chuckle was more around Ray getting the label of General Public. Feels like he's deserving of more just based on his dedication, but there's no other appropriate bucket for him. Side note: do you know why the reporting from the PWM ASOS site is inconsistent in terms of when you all report it?

"General Public"

And we're not done yet, still piling up. You're gonna have an epic Maine week...

Yup. Deep winter out here, nice moderate snow pasting everything. 32.5F 14.6" @ 6AM.