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85.6/73.9, the south wind is gusting on the shore today.

Storms stayed just north, 0.12".

A lot of lightning, but only squeezed out 0.03" of rain down this way

First day above 90, high of 92.3.

1.25" for the day

Tropical downpours, up to 0.83" on the day.

Terrapin is a great park with good trails.

If you are in downtown you can walk along the waterfront down Water Street, that is a pretty section and there is a Marina. Water Street is walkable from RAR depending where you park. Great Marsh park is also 5 min from downtown, not much, but a lot of grass and waterfront also. Sailwinds is near route 50, really small park with a beach. Bill burton state park has the two fishing peirs, but the Talbot County side has a small waterfront park with beach, not sure how much in the way of trails.

You stop by Hair O Dog? If so, are they doing anything different, like order ahead? Wishing Well is doing that and makes it super easy, just drive up and they put it in your car.

1.42" from storms last night

Bowling ball incoming to the midshore

WHAT A DAY

This is pure conjecture and does nothing to add to the conversation

Definitely impressive, peak gust at Easton Utilities of 50 and I had a gust of 30 at my station that is only 6ft off the ground and relatively sheltered.

Trying Dewey Beer Co. They Call Me Hey dbl IPA. Never had any of their stuff before, this is hazy, sorta sweet and smooth, easy to drink.

That's the most important number.

That creates an interesting question than, whether or not a pandemic like this would have registered in the history books because it only has higher mortality in the very old, thus daily life might not have been affected to a degree worthy of cataloguing. This is purely an academic question and has no bearing on current mitigation efforts that I agree with. The other question is with modern medicine (and diet) are we effectively mitigating the effects on the younger population, which in previous times would have succumb at a greater rate to a similar virus.

Actually, there is a grain of truth in this, pandemics are obviously most lethal to more vulnerable populations. Before modern medicine the more healthy and genetically fit survived. Those that survived had, in general, longer lives and those genes were passed down to future generations creating demographics that were more resilient. This played out during the bubonic plague (Dewitte, 2014) and on a catastrophic scale with small pox in the Americas. Fortunately, with modern medicine we do not have to go through such turmoil just to have future generations survive and prosper. As for forest fire suppression, the analogy makes some sense because through fire suppresion it has completely changed the environment that those species live in, allowing certain less resilient species to colonize and allowing other populations to take on traits less suitable to surviving the natural fire cycle that should have been occuring. This creates the opportunity for when fires that do occur to become even more destructive due to more plant material present and less resilient populations. That is why management strategies now have shifted to control burns to allow a more natural fire cycle to reduce material, help sustain native populations that are resilient, and also ensure less damage to infrastructure from uncontrollable fires.

Everybody stocking up on nicotine?

Pretty common, hospitals like beds full, so pre-covid, on a normal day, more hospitals would have been under some sort of alert at some point during the day. For instance, Shore Regional on the eastern shore was on red alert quite often in February. Since quarantine/stay at home started there have been almost no alerts. Although, I would guess the red alerts you see now are partially Covid related especially in PG and MOCO.

Yellow alert- emergency room requests no patients to be brought in due to overload Red alert- all ECG monitored beds are used up in hospital Alerts are fairly common during normal periods ( pre-covid) and there have been less recently due to less emergency room visits because people being wary about going to an emergency room and less activities in general. The hospitals on red alert have been on red alert for a few weeks, my guess is from Covid patients taking up monitored beds. If you go on the website you can query alert history.

1.38", definitely was not expecting those early morning downpours

Laziness, I needed to get the correct term came from Trevor Bedford's twitter, https://mobile.twitter.com/trvrb/status/1251334241087979521

Not sure if this was posted yet: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/us/california-deaths-earliest-in-us/index.html Not surprising, but helpful to now document, much early community spread and supports some of the new seroprevalence data coming from California.

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