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Pennsylvania tops 10,000 positive cases on Saturday, jumping nearly 1,600 since Friday... https://www.mcall.com/coronavirus/mc-nws-coronavirus-saturday-update-20200404-epomznrqjze3tckcb4top3gin4-story.html

We have more here in the Skook than Cumberland County. I wonder if it's that we are sandwiched between Allentown and Hazleton. Two fast growing hot spots.

Well, the wind sure is/was crazy today. I recorded my highest gust of 2020 today, and we've had some pretty windy days prior to this one. As a side note, we almost had an apartment building go up in flames around the corner from me this afternoon. Lady was smoking on the back porch and the when she went to put the cigarette out, the tip fell off, got into and under the wood slats, and started up. A quick thinking neighbor and a hell of a fire department kept it contained to about 1/4 of the porch. If the whole building would have went, all that old timber and the high winds would have created an inferno...

Are you sure we're not brothers...lol Nope. In fact, yesterday was the first full day our county was included, and it seemed like there was more traffic. Our mayor closed all the borough parks and playgrounds a week and a half ago so we can't even do that...

I see. I can respect that.

Why? Don't you like severe weather?

Great news!

The sky looks pitiful here. It's 54 here now and cannot see any mountains due to the fog and mist. What an UGLY day today here...

Hearing what sounds like distant thunder here at the house. Radar and Lightning Strike says it might be possible. Of course it could be the trucks hitting the 237 potholes on the main road behind me...

Watch the radar trajectory. I will have none of that...

For their employees, but what if the employee is the one with the virus? Now they just passed it on to the customer by returning the bag they had their hand in.

I can tell that story and I'm a grandparent, so...

You aren't kidding...

What's scary is how fast the numbers are rising. Berks, to my south rose 81% today, and Luzerne, to my north rose 53%. In one news article I saw, a physician's assistant recommended staying out of Hazleton. Some think that Hazleton is a community that is going to explode in the near future.

More counties in PA under stay at home orders starting tonight. Outside of Carbon and Schuylkill, almost the entire eastern third of the state is under "lockdown".

See? This is bullshit... Harvey Weinstein can get a damned test, and so can British Royalty, sports stars, Hollywood actors, etc, but someone extremely ill and exhibiting all the symptoms can't. There is something IMMENSELY wrong with this picture, and it pisses me off...

Wishing you and your family member the best Canderson...

And I'd welcome all of you, but sorry, Tamaqua never ends up in the jackpot zone...lol

As far as the kick in above the state unemployment weekly benefit rate, I'd be happy if the Feds would just add in the difference to get folks to their normal 40 hour work week. Even that would be a big help.

We had a light coating on the cars. Not even enough to whiten the grass.

74 in Tamaqua.

Do you think that's a possibility? I've been weighing the pros and cons of going back out on the road trucking to keep busy while the bus industry was shut down, but if that's the case, then I might just want to stay close to the house. One thing that did concern me was that if people couldn't afford food, would highway piracy and truck hijackings increase?

100% of our school buses and motorcoaches are parked, and I was told not to expect much, if any, work before May 1st. I filed on Tuesday. First claim week isn't until the 29th though.