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4 hours ago, NW_of_GYX said:

Stolen from FB. This is in the gaspe as of yesterday. Far northern Maine into Quebec are just absolutely buried right now. Reminds me of 15-16 when I went up to Ft Kent last week of March. No snow at all through Ashland then once we got over the hill on 11 north of wallagrass it was just feet and feet of snow and got another 6” that first day there. Skied at lonesome pines which was fun for the novelty of it.


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I bet its deep at the Chic Chocs

The Dec 92 storm, Nemo and the April's fool  storm were some of the highest rates I can remember. I got 12 inches in 3 hours with Nemo, not sure of 97 but it was a consistent 2-3 even 4 inches per hour for awhile.

3 hours ago, wxeyeNH said:

I have done 2 of there winter "edutrips" when you can stay up at the summit over a weekend.  

When and how was the weather?

2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I guess I wasn’t paying close enough attention . I was just thinking near 40. I had to pull out all my winter running gear. F that 

Better leave it out for next week.

1 hour ago, monadnocks said:

Anyone have advice staying near West Springfield? I help lead a high school robotics team and we last weekend we competed at WNEU. Drove only once through Armory Street and Saint James to the university; thank you Waze. Driving a large truck full of equipment on this drive was subpar.

Our 4 star Hampton Inn (tripadvisior.com) in West Springfield had the sounds of dirt bikes? drag racing? going on past midnight. With a pre-8AM start of 12 hours of competition, this was not what we were looking for. Also, if that's a 4 star hotel, I really don't want to end up at a 3 star.

We'll probably return to West Springfield in April for a larger competition (80 teams) which will be at the Big E. I'm trying to find the best intersection between a decent hotel, not too far from the venue and relatively safe. One adult suggested the La Quinta Inn on Congress Street in Springfield but I'm not sure about the area. Our tool boxes generally look like we bought everything a power tool company offers plus a couple of hundred pounds of assorted other stuff. I'm thinking we might not wanting to parking trucks in some of these areas.

Any advice? West Springfield (Candlewood Suites)?  Holyoke (Fairfield Inn or Homewood Suites)?

Thanks for any help!

I would opt for the Candlewood Suites, whatever you decide stay the hell away from Holyoke.

11 minutes ago, Cold Miser said:

Dude just spun around a bit, and flipped over, then flipped back, right side up, and just drove on his way.

It was hard to see at the beginning but it looked like he was trying to get away from the tor but he went the wrong way.

2 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

No it's still there. Very blocky look for month-end. There's nothing imminent though, so not really worth commenting too much. There's an outside chance at something around D5-6 (there's some wave-spacing issues though), but I think the better chance is more like D8-10 assuming the block holds....it could just lift out too though like the OP GFS did today.

April 2nd, happy birthday to me

26 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

It's amazing how much the lawn has greened up here in the last week.   First cut is usually mid April but at this rate it will be earlier.

That's why we golf in Conn first time out. Down near the shore it greens up 3-4 weeks before we do.

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

This was this evening before I let the birds out to free range. I dread walking through this every time.

Parts of my yard looks like that, I was cleaning up branches and stepped in a mud pile, thought I was stuck for good.

4 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

so the above picture is of a holly type shrub. Is that going to make it? Deer got at it 

another holly that the deer got at a bit. Why is the top turning a yellowish color? You can see a bit further down on the left. The rest of it looks fine.

and finally, this is like a Rhododendron type plant that flowers in the spring. Once again, deer got at it. There are still some leaves, but it looks pretty crappy. Is that a goner?

Yeah, fertilize, the deer do a number on my shrubs too but a little fertilizer goes a long way.

6 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

Oh yes they are everywhere indeed.

@weatherwiz is always debating between spiders and house centipedes, I think. Same here.

At our MD place, every year is another battle in the endless war between wolf spiders and house centipedes, who have been mortal enemies for 100 million years or so. Some years, the spiders are dominant, other years the centipedes reign supreme. Either way, you walk into your bathroom at 2 AM to piss and there is some huge multi-legged POS right there in your face.

One year I didn't see a spider all spring into the summer which I thought was odd as I always see them. One hot, humid night I come home and my foundation is covered with centipedes, hundreds of them. I ended up getting some WP Demon and sprayed a few times and got rid of them but it was like a scene from the twilight sone. Wiz would have freaked out. Before I killed them they started getting into the house everywhere, with my central air they would dry up and die but glad I got rid of them.

1 minute ago, Ginx snewx said:

Wait until the parachute ones arrive.

Are those those big ass yellow ones from Japan?

31 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

I hate spiders.

Me too but they're in your house, they're in every house, the other day while I was working a big ass spider crawled up to me on my desk, I tried to smash it with my lamp but he got away, he's still lurking somewhere.

2 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

Today reminded me of March 2012

Only back then it was more than one day.

15 hours ago, wxeyeNH said:

We are rapidly loosing our winter snow cover and all the deer that yard up behind our house are having a field day.  Last week we had 31.  At any time now they will disperse and head back up into the hills.  

Here is our zoo.

 

Mt BIL has 50 acres in Holland MA and his land borders a state forest and he has a lot of deer, most we ever counted at one time is 12, I never realized they hung out in such large herds. I've had 4 in my yard a few times but never saw 31, that's great to watch.

41 minutes ago, SouthCoastMA said:

Wolfie is a wounded animal.

if all models showed something we'd all interested. destined to fail is definitely not a good way to forecast

I think he caught rabies sometime this winter, left untreated it changes the animals personality.

This link says it was a suicide, very sad, liked her when she was on 7.

Woman dies after getting struck by commuter rail train in Natick (metrowestdailynews.com)

49 minutes ago, UnitedWx said:

Unfortunately with my job I had to have surgical repair. Problem is they'll never heal themselves and I wanted as much strength back as possible. I put it off for a couple years and that was a huge mistake...made recovery on my left side painful as FUC. When my right side tore I had it done within a couple months and recovery was SO much easier, like by a factor of a thousand!

I got scoped too but never had PT to help with recovery, it was sore as hell for a while I remember that. Now that side is stronger still than the other side from the all the exercises I did.

8 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Gas has been pinned at 4.39 at the station near my house for well over a week now., even with crude dropping over 30 dollars a barrel.

You can bet if it rose 30 dollars a barrel they couldn’t get those price hikes out fast enough, but now we can’t even get a small decrease 

High here was $4.39, with lower crude they lowered it to $4.37, big whoop. They always raise it much faster than lower it.

2 hours ago, #NoPoles said:

So, I highly recommend not blowing out you ACL. Pain after surgery is unreal. I can barely move. No weight bearing at all with my left leg for about 6 weeks. I just lay on my couch staring at the ceiling. But, at least I will be back walking in time for summer. So I'm just immobile during mud season

A friend of mine blew his out and complained for awhile after the surgery about the pain, he was swallowing percs like tic tacs.

1 hour ago, UnitedWx said:

My left and right rotator cuffs agree 100 percent! A skilled physical therapist is woth their weight in gold... IF you do as they say

I tore mine lifting one day, felt like a rubber band snapped, not great pain at the time but after a few days I couldn't brush my teeth with that hand. My doctor was terrible and didn't even prescribe PT so I looked into things on my own and got my strength back.

45 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

I’ve got about 35% of my propane left. I usually fill up in the spring but this year I’m going to roll the dice and probably wait until late summer or fall 

I would take that chance too, I got lucky and got my oil tank filled before it went crazy and haven't used much of it since I've been burning wood.

14 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

90% chance its over.

So there's a chance?

2 hours ago, Cold Miser said:

But...He "retired".  Doesn't retirement nullify the contract?  Players have done that before.

No, he thought TB would let him out of his last year if he retired and I think he wanted to go to another team. TB was stubborn and wouldn't let him out so he played his hand, it didn't work and he's back. In fact that last year of his contract is owned by TB in perpetuity if he ever wants to come back.

33 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Same. 

He couldn't Tampa wasn't going to let that last year on his contract go.