MarkO

I guess any opportunity and they will

The second/vacation home market in my area of NH has nearly doubled over the past 3 or 4 years, but it seems a correction is beginning to happen. I think the trend will continue especially in the second home market which seems to be more volatile. It's pretty wild though to think I was able to buy a 1 acre lot with mountain views for less than $10k 12 years ago. Some of the lots just a couple years before that were selling at auction for under $2k. Just picked up the IKON pass. Hope to get in a trip out west and maybe a weekend at Tremblent or possibly a little summer skiiing at Vallle Nevado. At least that's what my buddy has in mind, but a lot will depend on whether the new housing starts don't come to a screeching halt.

How are the snow depths in Siberia? Speaking of which, has Judah Cohen spoken about this winter?

I hope she moved.

I was thinking that as well. My SIL has a house about 10 miles northeast of FMB and although that may sound like a lot, it's only about 15' above sea level and all those canals, who knows how far inland the surge/flooding will get. Even though they'reabout 15' above sea level, the FEMA 100 year storm is 15'. Probably designed to be an inch over flood zone. FEMA going to go broke. Kinda reminds me of Sandy. This one is going to be costly.

I had been watching the waves from the Lana Kai hotel webcam this morning until it went offline about 3 or 4 hours ago. At that time, it appeared the waves were at the building line. These twitter feeds prove what I suspected. You look at where FMB is located in relation to the eye/eyewall and you can only imagine how high the storm surge must be.

I didn't know they had an elevated webcam. I spy flakes

looks like flakes at SB:https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=3254095488166852

Tremblant

Cold front just passed through MWN, Temp dropped 10F in past 90 minutes. Down to 36.7, coudl see a flip to snow soon.

6" on the nose for the month. Not sure why we're still in a moderate drought. I've had a little over a foot since June 1st. That's averages about 3.25"/month.

There's been talk of widening 93 through Concord to 3/4 lanes. I believe it's still in the design phase. Supposedly it won't be finished until the mid 2030's. All the bridges will have to be replaced, and the existing highway runs immediately adjacent to the Merrimack River. It looks like I'll be doing a lot more driving at night. It's gonna suck.

I got the same exact total 3.38" Sunday, 0.84" today.

That does seem a bit high, but I guess if you can slide the goal posts between the maximum 60 days of precip, it seems at least plausable.

NOAA precip totals for various storm events (this one is for Dracut).

3.38" yesterday, another 0.40" so far in the bucket today in Lowell. Heard a report of 10.8" in Cranston, RI.

3.00" In the bucket in Lowell

April 14, 2018 redux

Sad news. I heard it had to do with the Natick commuter rail accident as well. God bless her family.

Given the car shortage, more than I thought, but the same '22 model is about 20% more than I what paid 3 years ago.

Spoke to my neighbor that owns one, me the other, supposedly they're near the end of life. If one of those lands on my house, it'll be crushed. I'm guessing the weight about 20k#'s each, whereas the Norway spruce is probably around 2-3k#'s.

Could have been worse. When my daughter said "the huge pine tree just landed on your truck" I thought it was one of these two.

Bent the roll cage on both sides, doors need to be replaced, dented hood, rear fender, windshield is whack, frame might be bent. I really hope it's toast. The body shop said 3-4 months of work. I get $25/day rental coverage for a month.

to my house, truck, wallet or liver? Or all of the above. Working on second 3 finger pour of Makers Mark.

70' Norway Spruce took out my railing and likely totaled my truck. Happened at 8:29.57 this AM according to the ring doorbell. I was sleeping in my basement. Neither me, nor my daughter heard it, but I woke up at 8:30. Coincidence?