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Tree fell 15 minutes ago and knocked down my next door neighbors chimney, a retaining wall and a stand of evergreens. We are sheltered in the center of the house. Snapping and cracking sounds but lights still on.

Getting real up here north of HPN. Branches down and lights flickered a few times. Internet went down but all working now. If I had to guess I’d say gusts to 40. My house is shadowed from the south by a steep hill so can’t tell anything real from the ground in terms of wind speed. Intermittent rain. No word of trees down yet locally.

A good journal doesn’t mean the paper is robust. Hopefully the peer reviewers were careful looking at the data for the high beer consumption article. Even in good journals you see backtest overfit and you get a false positive. I would be suspicious of that.

New Hampshire gets an asterisk...no income tax!

I feel you. I am a country boy living in the big apple zone, but I keep one foot up north all winter. Unfortunately for you a record winter up north is incoming while we get hit with 33 and rain down here. It’s just how it is. It’s the only circumstance where weather prognostication is 100% accurate. Buying a new snowmobile or snowblower are good predictors of a bad winter.

Welp...decided to go get the antibody test for the family Sunday. Took 1 hr to get an appointment at a local urgent care which surprised me. I thought tests were in short supply. Nope. Place was empty. No questions asked either. No copay. Results come back ...my 14 YO came up with the anti body. My wife and I did not. Weird. So we went back and got the swab test to see if we an active infection. No red alert symptoms or anything, maybe tired and allergy type stuff if anything. Will report back. My son lost taste for a few weeks but no other symptoms. If you get the nose swab..it sucks. I do know 2 other families where 1 person positive with the infection, and NO one else tested positive for the infection or anti bodies. Jives with what’s happening in my house, but doesn’t jive with what I hear from news and what I should expect. Weird.

Right except for the part where it cuts.

Through all of this cold, my lawn looks great. Noted some leaves in a nearby woods have slightly curled up because of the cold and snow last week, but no other signs on the greenery, at least here in mid Westchester.

I was thinking about big temp swings. I know we have had some in the few years, but mainly in winter., but like 60 degree swings in a couple of days.

DC lost their autonomy I think during Marion Berry’s reign. Congress took away their ability to govern themselves, iirc.

I read California has a rainy day fund. Or had one anyway... which would be amazing if true.

I figured CT and Illinois are actually close to defaulting.

I am sitting on the fence about how I feel about the lockdown. It’s extreme but I don’t k now what else to do. This patient hasn’t generated expected income for many years. Somehow it got worse in the last 4.

Cuomo can’t figure out how to fund the state in normal times, and doesn’t know why we keep missing revenue targets. He said it plainly. He is doing great on the virus response. His budget skills are atrocious. One of the worst in the US. Maybe CT and IL are worse?

Remember we had a white thanksgiving in many areas. Iirc a couple recent November’s have been cold.

Winter of ‘78 was a good one...just saying...

Dudes. This is nuts

Confirm SN+ here in Westchester.

So true. Watch the season and playoffs get shortened, but the bills win the Super Bowl...with an asterisk...

China is the number one consumer of all that science you speak of. They steal it. We haven’t done anything in 20 years to stop it either. Until huewai.

Not going to go too far into this...yes farmers took a hit. No bueno. The point of the tariffs was in part to send the message to China we can stop feeding them anytime. Australia was recently threatened economically by China, and they may come to the same conclusion that the US did, and stop feeding China as well. Neither country wants to be bullied by China China cannot feed itself. Of all the threats to China, this is near the top. They need food imports. If China is perceived and understood to be materially reckless with the virus by the western world, and they decide to sanction and choke China, they can. The implications are huge.

I can get one at my local walk in clinic with a questionnaire. I check a lot of boxes due to my travel. I may go and see.