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0.52” in the Stratus from the thunderstorm earlier… might have added a couple hundredths in sprinkles and drizzle afterward. MVL ASOS looks like 1.08” so they got into some good rain rates just north of here on RT 100.

Dr. House knows.

I remember looking up those infomercials when his picture first showed up on here, dude loved his damaged buckets. Learn something new every day!

Ha I had no idea what that guy's name is. Now it makes a lot more sense.

At first I thought it was an auto-correct typo, but who TF is Phil? That gerbil in PA who gets high off his shadow?

Ha this is the desert up here. CT and MA flush out 6” of water by lunchtime some days.

Ha hopefully not a mess. 0.52” in the stratus from that. We’ve definitely turned wetter lately. I think that’s ~6.5” for July now.

Great wind on the front side… sub-severe though. I’d estimate 40-45mph gusts. Powers out in some parts of town but we still have it. Seemed the type of wind that drops white pines, ha.

Lots of thunder now. Looks good hitting the Champlain Valley.

Can already hear some rumbling.

It is crazy how bad the vis is with sunshine. MVL has been 3-5sm all day and here at the mountain you can basically see the neighboring hill but nothing beyond that. Can’t see anywhere close to across the valley.

That’s a decent line entering N.NY.

Ha. Spaceman Spiff from Calvin and Hobbes.

Raining here right now. We tried to avoid the SNE shitshow of rain for as long as possible but it seems it has now reached us, ha.

Days like today where maxes are -10 to -15 but minimums are high, often leads to a cold narrative if it were winter. When people are awake, out and about, it’s colder than normal. In the winter no one cares if the nights are warmer than normal. 23F instead of 13F, big deal if the high is 30F. In the summer the minimum temperatures seem to be used more by some as evidence of a “warm month” as opposed to the highs. It’s 62/62 here with 0.5sm fog. Drainages fog out quick in these setups.

That was close… a grand slam there by Vladdy Jr makes that game interesting again.

Ha for sure… you aren’t living if you haven’t lied to an employer at some point in your life for extra time off on a trip. I remember in my 20s spending an extra couple days with a girlfriend alone on her father’s boat sitting in a harbor in Newport (or Jamestown RI) because of a “car issue” and the mechanic said it’d be a “day or two to get the part.”

Yeah, need wins. Almost scary starting with an 8-0 lead. As a pitcher your mentality has to change or relax, can see it being hard to focus in a state of bewilderment. The Jay's lineup can score quickly too.

Red Sox... 3 home runs (including a Grand Slam) in the 1st inning so far. 8-0 top of the 1st inning. And still going. Feels good after that Yankee series.

Sounds like you need to fake a positive test to stay there longer. Just call the boss and say yeah, they tested me but I'm going to need to chill here on the beach for another 10 days. You'd almost think your boss would want proof of a positive test .

Yeah to each their own for sure. It was just interesting.

Yeah I could see a smaller isolated countries being more into it. I’m not even sure if it’s on the airline or the customs officers to check. My wife asked CBP officer at Logan and he said they don’t check tests and made it sound like it wasn’t his job. Maybe it’s on the airline but Delta and Lufthansa weren’t interested. Produced it at counter and check in person said I don’t need that. I’ll be curious to hear how yours is.

Yeah it was just crazy that not a single person cared or asked for testing results despite so many signs, emails, gov’t websites saying you will not be admitted to the given countries without them etc. I guess they get the point across and the governments treat it like an honor system but the traveler certainly doesn’t get that opinion/vibe until they’ve already done the test and are traveling.

I try to only talk about what I know, but over a decade in tourism and hospitality, you’ll see the worst of people from time to time. And haven’t seen any more or less lately than any other random distribution. If anything people seem a bit more forgiving like “we are just happy we can do this again” but that period is wearing off. Anytime someone is spending big money for a vacation though, tensions can run high. You see more than enough families that almost seem more stressed on vacation because every minute was over-planned… or if they are less stressed I can’t imagine day to day life. Airline employees have to have the worst of it. There’s not enough money in the world to stand at an airline counter and be a punching bag of over tired travelers.

Nothing like -2.4 and 15” of rain as a great summer month .