BrianW

Cell phones are down all over Branford, East Haven, North Haven, etc. Can't get ahold of anyone either. Im on wifi off my generator.

Lost power and cell service here in Branford. Was insane. I am hearing North Haven is a disaster. Last frame before I lost cell service.

Just saw Vail has announced its guidelines for Colorado. Seems really excessive. I think most people aren't going to bother going with all these guidelines in place. Vail Resorts owns five resorts in Colorado, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Crested Butte. Highlights of the protocols announced Thursday include: Guests will be required to wear face coverings on mountains and in every area of resort operations, including lift lines, on lifts and in gondola cars. Only related parties (guests skiing or riding together) will be loaded together on lifts, with exceptions: Two unrelated parties will be allowed to load on four-person chairlifts, seated on opposite sides of the chair; two unrelated singles or pairs will be allowed to sit on opposite sides of six-person chairs; two singles will be allowed to sit on opposite sides of gondola cabins. A reservation system prioritizing Epic Pass holders will be implemented to limit numbers and ensure that guests will have the space they need while at the resort. Pass holders will be required to make reservations before arriving at the resort. The number of lift tickets sold to the general public on a given day will depend on how many pass holders have made reservations, and they will be sold only online or through Vail Resorts call centers. https://theknow.denverpost.com/2020/08/27/vail-resorts-ski-season-coronavirus-reservations/244367/

I'm working down in the Stamford area today. My work van has been bouncing between 84-86.

I was just looking at the aerial view of Port Arthur. The amount of chemical/oil industry there is eye opening. The size of the Valero refinery is incredible. Its looks to be over 2 miles wide. Are these places designed for a direct hit? If not the environmental impact is going to be huge. There is a huge BASF chemical plant just the North as well.

I usually don't use them either but the tree service gave me a deal to inject it with Tree-age since they were already here.. It supposedly is the best stuff to use against EAB and lasts for 2 years. I mainly did it because it is insanely expensive to get a tree removed here. That ash cost me almost $4k to get removed with some other small tree trimming. I bought myself 2 more years and I can get it injected again for $400 next year to buy 2 more. That's part of the big issue here is homeowners don't have the cash to get dead trees cut down. So they end up on power lines. I know 2 people that actually paid to get their neighbors huge dead standing ash trees cut down. Cheap insurance especially when it was leaning towards their house. https://arborjet.com/product/tree-age/

I lost 1 ash to EAB here in CT but have been treating another really old one with a soil drench of Imidcloprid. Its still doing great where just about every ash here is completely dead.. You can get a bottle of Dominion 2l on Amazon for like $25. Its the same stuff the pros use. The crown died off first on the one I lost. There will be woodpeckers all over it like crazy if you have EAB. Here is the one I lost and the other I treated. I counted the rings on the one that was cut down and it was almost 100 years old.

East Rock Park in New Haven is a great spot. You can drive right to the top in your car. I think the elevation is 366 feet there. Awesome views.

A UCONN professor of forestry wrote about how all the dead ash and oak trees in 2018 are going to cause major problems. Looks like the situation is pretty bad in Eastern CT from gypsy moths according to the article with some areas having 80-90% canopy loss. From a public safety point of view, the numbers of dead trees that have the potential to ultimately impact roadways and power lines is well beyond the capacity of property owners, town budgets, CT-DOT and/or utilities to address. https://blog.extension.uconn.edu/201...-insect-pests/ This is a common sight all over CT.

Its been a scorcher even on the shoreline. The water in Long Island sound has been crazy warm this summer. There was a stretch earlier this month where it was above 80 degrees for a few days and hit 85. I think the average sound temp is like 71 for August. New Haven was reporting 80 today.

Looks like HVN and BDR put up 91's. Its been an absolute scorcher down here on the CT shoreline. Seems like every morning driving along 95 my work van is 78-80 at 6-7 am.

Our cabin is near Sparta. My wife has a ton of family around Morris County. You have mentioned many familiar names. She has family in Denville, Long Valley, Parsippany and Dover. I was just there this past weekend Canoeing down the Delaware.

We have a couple huge ones towering over our cabin in NW NJ. We had a branch come down and spear our roof during Isaias. Right now they are dropping those pods like crazy. I was there this past weekend and all night they were dropping on the roof.

We have a lake cabin in northwest NJ and the amount of rain that area has received is nuts. We have to repair the gravel road like every 2 weeks from the runoff. There are mushrooms growing everywhere.

Around 57% of people across parts of India's financial hub of Mumbai have coronavirus antibodies, a July study found, indicating that the population may have inadvertently achieved the controversial 'herd immunity' protection from the coronavirus. https://fortune.com/2020/07/30/herd-immunity-covid-coronavirus-india/

What a special summer...

Spent the weekend at my sister's in Narragansett. We bought most of this right from the boats in Galilee.

Where are you? NY? My water bill in CT is $100-150 every 4 months and I water the hell out of my plants and lawn.

I highly recommend if you have trees that can fall on your house get them removed. I know of 2 people that had huge oak trees fall on their homes in the recent storm. They are being told to find somewhere to live for up to 4 months. There is nobody available to fix them.

New York is reopening their gyms on Monday. I know someone in the industry. CT gyms have had over 150k+ people check in and there hasn't been a single covid case associated with any gyms in CT. Not a single staff or contact trace with a gym member. Supposedly that data was huge in getting NY to reopen their gyms. On a related note. Its pretty alamring how many people I haven't seen in awhile thay are extremely overweight now. This includes children as well.

My friend owns a pool company and has been working 7 days a week all summer. He has deposits down through next summer. Said there aren't enough pool companies for the demand.

Maximum derecho wind estimate now at 140 mph, Atkins measures 126 mph CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - New data collected by the National Weather Service shows even stronger winds than initially surveyed, according to meteorologists. The Quad Cities office of the agency released new storm reports on Wednesday morning, following further storm surveys and new information relayed by emergency managers. Based on the damage to the Westdale Court apartments on the southwest side of Cedar Rapids, which removed the roof, outside walls, and some inside walls from the top floor, National Weather Service damage surveyors estimate that 140 mph winds took place in that location. https://www.kcrg.com/2020/08/19/maximum-derecho-wind-estimate-now-at-140-mph-atkins-measures-126-mph/

Some good news on antibodies. Research on a coronavirus outbreak that occurred on a Seattle-based fishing vessel earlier this year may be the first direct evidence that antibodies to the coronavirus could prevent people from reinfection. The findings were shared in a report Tuesday by the University of Washington’s School of Medicine and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The report looks at an outbreak on a fishing vessel that sailed from Seattle in May. It found that three crew members who had neutralizing coronavirus antibodies prior to departure were spared from an outbreak that infected more than 85 percent of the boat’s crew members. Before departing, the ship’s 122 crew members were all tested for coronavirus. This included having their blood drawn to see if they had coronavirus antibodies from a previous infection. None of the crew members tested positive for coronavirus, however three had antibodies for coronavirus, indicating they had previously been infected. https://komonews.com/news/coronaviru...n-fishing-crew

Go buy tempo dust if your dealing with wasp, bees, yellow jackets, etc. You can get it on Amazon. Its what the pros use. You dust the nest entrance and they bring it into the nest and it's done in a day or two. Those sprays only kill on contact and don't penetrate into the nest.