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Come hang out at a ski resort during Christmas week, lol. Employees have been spit on, hit, get absolutely railed on verbally, etc. We even have a radio code 10-77 for it. Call a 10-77 and you’ll get every manager heading your way and the PD know that code too so they are coming. Dad had 5 kids to get ready to ski in the morning, 3 of them didn’t want to go, Dad paid big money, kids crying, forgot one kids ski boots at home once he arrives, Mom is pissed off yelling at him for not dropping them off… Dad gets inside Lodge and finds one more minor issue and he absolutely loses his goddamn mind at some $12/hr front-line employee… the police end up coming. Or Dad spent 5 hours in a suburban with the kids annoying him, he’s tired, gets to hotel to check in and room isn’t ready despite it being check-in time. Boom go the fireworks. Happens a LOT. Dad often apologizes saying the kids drive him insane all morning and all he wanted to do was go skiing. And it’s usually Dad, the Karen moniker applies to males too.

My wife flew internationally last month and both European Union and the US required negative tests 72 hours prior to flying. It was a pain in the ass and she did it. Not once on either leg did anyone (not a single person) ask her about COVID testing. Not airline, not CBP officers. No customs agents in either direction. She and other travelers were baffled as as they made such a big point about it online and in Gov’t correspondence. It obviously wasn’t needed. No one cared at all. Even cost like $150 in Europe/Germany to get tested, not a peep from any country or airline she went through. Lufthansa certainly didn’t care. But a family of 6 would’ve been $900 in tests!

What a punt of a day. It just keeps raining. This swath has been a permanent feature pretty much all day. Only needed in winter. No need in summer.

The irony is then when someone says it’s not humid out and it’s enjoyable, they come back with “what do you mean? It’s miserably humid. Dew is 70F at my station. Sweating my whole run.” Like last week in CT… I hate humidity and was like “It’s comfortable out this evening” and the response was “Are you drunk it’s miserable, you should hate it!”

Yeah wasn’t supposed to rain today but it’s been steady this morning on NE flow.

THIS IS A PATH LENGTH OF 1.9 MILES. THE APPROXIMATE PATH WIDTH WAS 75 YARDS. DAMAGE PHOTOS LED TO ESTIMATES OF MAXIUMUM WIND SPEEDS OF 75 TO 80 MPH, WHICH PUTS THIS ON THE MID TO UPPER END OF THE EF0 CATEGORY OF THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE. THE TIME, BASED ON RADAR, FIRE DEPARTMENT LOGS, AND AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT, WAS FROM 611 PM TO 618 PM EDT. THIS STORM WAS LOW-TOPPED AND DID NOT POSSESS ANY LIGHTNING...ONLY HEAVY RAIN. HOWEVER, ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS...HIGH HUMIDITY AND JUST ENOUGH WIND SHEAR ALOFT...WERE STRONG ENOUGH TO CAUSE THIS ISOLATED SPIN-UP. I understand the physics and fluid motion the atmosphere possesses in many different situation (I’m a visual learner), but I still don’t visualize humidity and spinners. Is it just warm moist air rises at a lesser excuse possible than anything cooler/drier? Those thermals are more likely to form a TOR?

For sure it's a quick take. The energy tonight is definitely different but that can come and go nightly in a 162 game season. For all the people saying the Yankees are playing a AAA team, all these new players though are fighting for their careers and injecting energy into the lineup. The base-running aggressiveness has been very un-Yankee like. Not all highly paid or made players… new guys want to prove themselves. The best players and teams are those with nothing to lose. That goes for a lot of things in life, ha. Rise to the occasion.

You’d hate for last night’s crap show 6-inning rainout (including questionable rain non-delays/delays, Verdugo getting hit by a ball thrown by a fan, interesting ump calls in big spots) to be a turning point in the head-to-head series between the Yanks and Sox. The Red Sox look flat footed and lethargic. That’s how we’ve gotten used to seeing the Yankees. The energy is flipped.

Deerfield River has to be raging. 5-6” total radar estimates out of ALY in the Deerfield area. I figure ALY is the better radar there… lower elevation scan and closer to rad site.

Oh for sure, it’s largely symbolic. It’s meant to deter but there’s no ID check so it’s like asking only unvaccinated people to wear masks inside .

One interesting thing I’ve noticed all afternoon is that some rain showers are moving in one direction, while others are moving in the opposite direction. All the low level stuff is going from NE to SW… low clouds are moving southwestward that you can see from the surface. Aloft it’s going the opposite direction. Like this stuff in the northern Champlain Valley… some echos are going one way and another set of showers is moving SW to NE. If I could post a longer radar loop that stuff has been happening all afternoon.

10 minutes apart, that changed fast lol.

1.91” tapering off. Hopefully can salvage the rest of the day.

Yeah it depends on how showery that backside stuff is. Whether it holds together or falls apart as to if we can get outside today at all. We've been under some pretty solid 1/4"-1/2" per hour rain at times that added up. It is crazy how this will be almost 5" for July, already above the monthly normal, but is 10" less than some in SNE.

There are hour long interviews with him on Section 10 and Starting 9 podcasts and he comes off as a very likeable player. Him and JD together is hilarious. I got a much different opinion of him after hearing him chat on those podcasts.

Up to 1.66”. Almost an inch in there since emptying the stratus earlier this morning. Hopefully this pushes out by 1-2pm.

Yeah no thanks, I’m already pissed that it’s raining today lol. Need to figure out when I can get outside for a couple hours, hopefully this crap can turn off by midday. Mountain bike and hiking trails don’t need water. It’s been so good and dry. Snowboarding legend Jeremy Jones was in Stowe recently commenting about how good and dry the dirt is in NVT for biking this past week.

In 17 days too! Averaging 0.90” per day so far this month. That’s wild.

Miller’s Falls in Franklin County, MA on CoCoRAHS coming in with 5.63” . More rain in a day than we’ve had this whole summer by far up north.

Not sure I’ve ever seen a MLB go this long in torrential rain. It’s been pouring for a while. There’s a pond behind home plate.

3’ above flood for that type of mellower topography is absolutely wild. That’ll spread out into some surprising areas for folks who didn’t think it’s possible. 150% of flood stage.

That was embarrassing. Verdugo loves talking with the fans. That’s what they do to repay him. If he was hit by that thrown baseball out of the stands, I mean wtf.

Vaz did not swing there with bases loaded. Sox bench was right to be outraged.

Those rainfall amounts are still hard to comprehend. A quick 3-5.5" over a decent footprint... in an already extremely high water table and stressed waterways. That's some tropical storm type rain and one can imagine 50-100 year flooding from it.