34 minutes ago, DotRat_Wx said:

I really don't know how you expect anyone to pay their bills, maintain their credit, on that paycheck. Doing those jobs, inside the city. I pay 2200 a month and it's an absolute bargain. The girls I rent to downstairs in southie pay 4k a month.

The problem here is kids being encouraged to go to college 8 years when they are idiots. If they have taken on the debt of loans the only option to go now is trades or pull off some king of life changing move and get lucky. The loan crisis is exactly that, a crisis. 

The PUA will run out. Anyone taking advantage of the situation will be punished for their laziness. Don't forget what happens when the tax bill arrives. Sure, there is a 10k rebate, but if you've been collecting for a year, that's only what 75%? The IRS is coming. 

shouldn't there be jobs that people aren't expected to live on? you know, minimum wage jobs for high school kids. a high school kid is just looking to buy some weed, not support an entire family. 

part of the problem is that many of those high school kids don't want to work.

2 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Just want to clarify I never said that, ha.  I think Tip might have.  I absolutely think it should keep rolling downhill to family.

sorry, you're right it was tippy. I edited my post.

2 hours ago, powderfreak said:

That’s the age old question... what’s the use if you can’t take it with you?  Leave it to your children.  Without children though....

in a lot of cases, people amass a semblance of wealth saving up for retirement. and once retired, you have to spend carefully since you don't know how many years you will be alive to draw on those funds. it seems like in a lot of cases, retirees kick the bucket just a couple years after retirement, leaving their nest egg to their heirs. shit happens.

and to Tips point saying that money should never be bequeathed? that's pure hogwash. where else should my money go when I die? where is your money going when you die?

1 hour ago, tamarack said:

That's logical, but often when the town leaders see a 15% increase in town-wide assessment, they immediately plan to spend 15% more dollars.

you speak the truth. it's unreal how they justify it too.

2 hours ago, powderfreak said:

It's been insane up here too.  Everything is going over asking price and most are selling in cash.  Not a single home or condo under half a million on the market right now in Stowe.

Honestly an article this week in the local paper reads very familiar to what Phin did... just buying stuff sight unseen and in big transactions to escape the city life.

Not going to lie, I'm not excited for a tax assessment in Stowe.  They are already talking about it and I know even where I am, our townhome is assessed almost $100K lower than what adjacent units have sold for.

 

 

a higher tax assessment does not necessarily mean higher taxes. Your town has a semi-fixed budget and taxes you a share of that budget. Simple math, really. Unless the budget goes up substantially, you won’t owe any more money. Yes your assessed value went up, but your tax rate goes down.

41 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

https://www.americanwx.com/bb/forum/11-new-york-city-metro/

this one is easy. Solid F. in summary, if it wasn’t for 20+” in mid-december, this would be a full on rat. Even though snowfall was close to average, it sucked. The Grinch storm literally ruined winter. Retention sucked, month to month snowfall sucked. It sucked, no nice way of putting it. Practically skunked in January, and in the heart of the winter, I got like 8” (between the mid-december storm and Feb 1). Look at these monthly totals:

-October 2”

-November 0”

-December 31” (23” in the one storm, gone via el-Grincho)

-January 6”

-February 23”

-March 0”

-April 0”

I think we all know what killed this winter (see bolded above)

2 hours ago, George001 said:

Normally when I see a low that strong on the models my first instinct is to forecast a massive blizzard, but it’s the gfs so it’s probably wrong and also it’s May. Based on the upper levels (for r/s line I use the 540 line) this run would support severe blizzard conditions in the berkshires and maybe even some snow into Worcester, with rain se of there. Of course its not going to happen because it’s the GFS and it’s May, but the fact that the run even supports blizzard conditions in May says everything you need to know about this model, which is that it is absolute garbage. Too bad we couldn’t get this in March. Fortunately the early signals (severe volcanic activity, and weak enso signal) are supportive for a severe winter next year, let’s hope that they hold.

there are not enough of these for you to forecast 

seriosly though, why the **** does everything have to be a blizzard? 

2 hours ago, DavisStraight said:

I usually swallow a couple when I'm golfing.

i have inhaled a black fly or two while smoking. that causes a neat little gag reflex. Also, i am unsure as to which is more hazardous: smoking or ingesting black flies. 

15 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Wonder if it was my brother in law’s shop. Lol. 

Merrimack NH

26 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I appreciate that    Likewise I have avoided doing business with establishments that have flouted public hygiene regulations during a pandemic - a certain hotel in the town next door to mine for example. 

last fall i stopped in a gun shop for some ammo. i had never been there before, but the place had Trump signs/flags and all kinds of stuff on the windows. Right on the door in big letters was a sign stating MASKS NOT ALLOWED. the whole time i was in there, which wasn't long, the guy was yakking to some other guy about how the whole china virus thing was fake, no one had gotten that sick blah blah blah. even though i needed some 9mm ammo which has gotten hard to find, but decided not to give this kook any of my ammo spending money. 

1 hour ago, Hoosier said:

This is a good headline to scare people.  But in the story, it says no causal link has been established.

Israel Examines Heart Inflammation Cases After Pfizer Shot

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/israel-examines-heart-inflammation-cases-after-pfizer-covid-shot/ar-BB1g46pq

one time i got poison ivy a few hours after i took some ibuprofin. I haven't taken ibuprofin since that day, because it obviously gave me poison ivy. my doctor told me that there was no causal link, but I know better than her.

31 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

For Kevin: https://www.lowellsun.com/2021/04/25/wildfire-scorches-more-than-30-acres-of-land-in-pelham-hudson-n-h/

from the caption of the photo: "a wildfire that laid waste to 32 acres of land...". talk about sensationalism. it was a brush fire. and that land will be back to normal in a month or 2

8 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said:

We have a general timeline. Tom Hanks and his wife were involved in a study where they got tested every month to see if they still had antibodies. They lasted 11 months. I expect a similar timeline with the vaccine.

https://www.prevention.com/health/a34864421/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-covid-19-antibodies/

lol ok.

Since the initial outbreak, multiple studies and doctors have explored the concept of COVID-19 immunity—the idea that the antibodies protect a once-infected person from getting sick again. And while the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it’s “unclear” how long the immunity lasts, a study published in November—which has not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal—uncovered more specific findings in their sample group of 185 COVID-19 cases.

4 minutes ago, Whineminster said:

If you already had COVID......why bother getting the shot? That's like saying..."i had the flu".....then you go get the flu shot....doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.  At least wait half a year or so. 

because no one knows how long post-COVID immunity lasts. is it 1 month? 3 months? 6 months? forever? seriously, why take the chance. Yes, I agree that the level of risk is low. but, do you want to take the chance? I know I don't. I know several people who have been really sick with COVID. all I can say is that I definitely don't want to get it.

@Lava Rock you will never grow anything if you don't treat for the grubs first.

1. treat for grubs, wait several weeks

2. rototill everything

3. rake out the clumps and spread the soil evenly

4. spread grass seed. I highly recommend using an overseeder.

2 hours ago, Lava Rock said:

My lawn frustrations are well known here so I won't belabor it, but I've got about 15,000sqft of damage now. The old top layer just peels right off. Going to have to remove most of it to get seed down.

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being able to pull it back like that is a solid indication that you have grubs.

i must be in Lewiston, because I am in the dry slot.

4 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Wouldn't be surprised to see accumulating snow potential across parts of northern New England mid-week. 

do you really have to post this? all it will do is get George all fired up and ready to call the next blizzard.

4 minutes ago, wx2fish said:

Just flipped to mostly snow. I'd imagine MHT will report SN on the next ob. 

i would hope so. I can see the tower at MHT from here, and it is definitely snowing

22 minutes ago, Whineminster said:

Good?

incorrect.

38 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Trying to flip to snow at CON. Goes back and forth between white rain and 75% snow. 

nothing down here either. if you look hard enough you can see some flakes mixing in, but that's about it. looks like it might be changing over soon. either that or we ride the line all day

8 hours ago, Whineminster said:

Maybe if we socialized medicine and pharma we wouldn't have share holders? 

Canada has socialized medicine. how are they doing with covid?

5 hours ago, George001 said:

Strong slow moving monster ocean low, 2+ inches of QPF, low coming up the coast and stalling right over the cape, earlier transition to snow than expected in many areas, and now models are ramping up snowfall output as the storm is on top of us. Everything I look at screams overperformer

look out the window right now. 

Do you still think this screams overperformer?

33 minutes ago, George001 said:

I’m not using the clown maps. No clown map besides maybe the long range nam (which is garbage anyways) showed anywhere near what I forecast. I don’t use snow maps when making forecasts, what I do is I look at the 500 millibar pattern to try and figure out if the surface presentation makes sense (on the euro it seemed to make sense), then I check the temp profiles in the upper levels, and if there are no warm layers I go through the run and look at how much QPF falls under a temp profile that supports snow. Based on what I have seen from the upper level temps, the snow maps are drastically underestimating the amount of snow. What the models say is a cold rain is a heavy wet snow based on the temp profiles. My analysis of the 6z euro was that the evolution supported over a foot of snow (thermal profiles supported 1.5-2 inches of QPF as snow, but ratios less than 10:1 so not more like 12-15 inches instead of 15-20 inches) in my backyard even though the maps only had like 6. 

put up your forecast map.