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From Panera's in Southbury looking NNW.

Yup. Probably wouldn't get this much water with Ernie anyway. Our cars and chicken coops may have washed away, but we still have our homes.

Yeah, and then that line of storms advancing from the west.

Just dropped my mom off back home and I saw a chicken coop floating down the Nonnewaug.

Once in 1000 year event.

There should be a CNN crew or Cantore showing up...Round two backbuilding at this moment.

That is unbelievable. Never saw anything like that there in 40 years. The Pomperaug river must have burst its banks.

Yup. Only hope is the backbuilding down north of Greenwich. Trying to top 6 here. 5.19.

Yeah, even worse to the west. They're pulling 3.5"/hour stuff. I just hit 1.4. No end in sight.

Just coming into Litchfield County. Rare to see rain this heavy. Literally watching the digital gauge go up a hundreth of an inch every 10 seconds.

Just hit 1" since 4am. Torrential wall of rain just to my south moving in. 65/65

.69 since 4am. Continues to backfill.

63/63. steady moderate rain .29

Lucky you. Crappy here all day. Clouds, toxic Canadian fumes, cool. So I stayed in and listened to Lex Fridman interview Frank Wilczek et al, and watched planes take off from JFK on flightradar24.

I was walking through the Colosseum at Rome several weeks ago. It was not uncommon for ferocious tigers and wolves to battle it out...to the end.

When we measure and study the weather, we invariably determine it and change it.

Yeah, not getting any smell like a few days last year. It was literally nauseating a couple days last year. Had to get myself one of those high merv filters for the central air system.

Here comes another train of TS, right down central VT, WMA, WCT.

I have a wall of windows to the south and west. So as the angle of sun lowers, I find i still need a/c through September. I make up for it by saving on heat in the winter. I set my a/c somewhere between 72 and 74, depending on dews. In winter during the daytime, the wood stove and the glass brings the house up to 78-80, and you can find me walking around in shorts and a tee shirt. At night, the common areas near the stove are in the mid 70s, and the bedrooms are around 69/70.

I blew last week's forecast highs by 5 degrees yesterday and likely today.

Just drove back from Waterbury to Bethlehem. It was outrageous. Little old ladies and gentlemen pulled to the sides of the roads.

Category 1 more than 980 mb 28.9395 in 74 - 95 mph 4 -5 ft. Minimal Category 2 965 - 979 mb 28.49655 - 28.90997 in 96 - 110 mph 6 - 8 ft. Moderate Category 3 945 - 964 mb 27.90594 - 28.46702 in 111 - 130 mph 9 - 12 ft. Extensive Category 4 920 - 944 mb 27.16769 - 27.87641 in 131 - 155 mph 13 - 18 ft. Extreme Category 5 919 mb 27.13816 in Over 155 mph Over 18 ft. Catastrophic

Is the haze from wildfires in Canada? I don't see any burning on the map, but it sure looks like smoke haze.

Correct. For two million years, proto-humans and humans have evolved to become extremely social creatures and to require physical interpersonal interaction (with a very keen and developed sense of interpreting facial structure, body language, and tonality of speech). All of that has been significantly tossed to the side with the sudden and materially remarkable human extrication from the physical social square over the past two decades or so. To put it in physical rather than psychic terms, it would be akin to suddenly feeding a rabbit animal proteins and fats, rather than its evolutionary required vegetation. The digestive system simply cannot process and adapt to such a sudden change, even over thousands of years. (Or, for that matter, feeding homo sapiens a plant-based diet.) We simply don't have the capacity to adjust and adapt to all the complex and different things that our brains bring forth. And we are at the point where we are facing this conflictedness between intellectual capacity, and the boundaries of human adjustment and acceptance to that. Enter anxiety, depression, and the entire suite of burgeoning mood and behavioral disorders.

Awesome! Right about 8:00.