powderfreak

Despite a decade of phallic references on this forum, this might be the first time those two words were used in the same sentence .

Yeah sharp differences between tourist towns and then the other towns that are just “where people live.” Like the difference here between Stowe and Morrisville. Stowe feels like a Boston suburb (which I like as I still feel too young to just live out in the woods) in the mountains… but 10 minutes north in Morrisville where the huge grocery stores are, McDonalds, Tractor Supply, (things normal towns have) and we do all our shopping etc is merely just NNE town of “where people live.” Zero tourists and the Suburbans and Escalades are replaced with lifted pick-ups with muddin’ tires and camo trim, mixed in with Honda Civics that have modified exhausts (and a lot of just normal daily drivers). All in about a 10 minute drive up RT 100. There is without a doubt a difference between tourist towns with name recognition and then just nearby towns where people just live and daily life has very little to do with people from elsewhere. They both have their pluses and minuses. I think once older I’d go for the quieter rural aspect. But hard in your 20s and 30s to live out in the middle of the woods alone ha. Enjoy the hustle and bustle of a bit more activity right now.

A little thunder and brief rain this morning. Clouds still in the trees. Just amazing. True rainforest.

For sure vigorous activity will lead to an overall hotter experience than someone sitting idle outside. I sweat skinning up the mountain in January and definitely get drenched going up 2,000 verts with dews in the 60s, its exercise. No argument lol. It is funny though, I just told my wife if she would go for a 3-5 mile run right now she’d think it was hot and humid. She replies “Are you high right now? What the f*ck are you talking about.”

It’s showing 64F here. Would be hard to have an upper 60s dew I would think. And no, she isn’t going for a 5-mile run right now. If she was, I bet she’d be in shorts, lol. I dunno man, just doesn’t feel “summer” but to each their own. Do you have your A/C cranking?

Now that I’m like a couple towns over from you I think you are more drunk than before. My folks have central AC and haven’t used it in a week or more. My wife’s in a hoodie and long pants, ha. What do you notice the second you walk outside? It’s damp and cool.

Damn. Yeah this was like 2003, who knows what it is now. You wouldn’t get a ticket per se, they’d just move your car down to a lot next to the Coast Guard building in BTV and you pay the dude to get out. Don’t pay, don’t get your car. But I don’t remember an official ticket per se.

Most of the time cities aren’t messing around. I got towed in BTV twice in one snowstorm for violating the Snow Emergency. Had just walked down to the Waterfront to get my car from the tow lot, drove it home, road was plowed so figured I was safe, went inside to have dinner, came out to go to the girlfriends like an hour later and the car was back down at the Waterfront. $150 a pop or something like that. Dude at the lot was laughing his ass off, don’t think it was funny at the time but later had a good laugh.

You guys got a lot of water down here. The old railway/trail at the Thompson Dam in NE CT that’s usually like 5 feet out of the water is completely gone. Water up into the tree canopy. I honestly think last summer that thing was almost 10 feet out of the water with dried mud around. For reference:

It is like a heavy mist. Can’t see the treetops in fog and misting enough to wet the ground again. This is absolutely amazing weather.

It’s true, don’t have to click on it. But it’s the same stuff over and over. It’s more a joke now “we made it a day without COVID disco!” Then again in the past this thread would move two pages a month, lol.

No ones opinion has changed in months, maybe a year. Then folks who say they’ve turned off the news and no longer pay attention to it seem to know an awful lot about what’s going on and love to share .

You guys are growing mushrooms the size of hubcaps down here.

Violent spin. Being down here, this is like the darkest uninspiring day I’ve had in a while lol. If it’s done this for 2+ weeks I get why folks are sick of it.

I never would’ve guessed you had 5-6” so far this month . I think we are around 3” up north, even with today’s rain. Still on pace for a healthy above normal July at that amount if we get 6”.

We are trying to play down here but they had the back 9 closed yesterday due to water and are trying to figure out what holes are playable today in NCT, lol. What a summer.

Already rained twice this morning, like 6am and again at 8am. You guys are living in quite a world down here. Though I see back home the Stowe PWS are 0.40-0.50” this morning so guess some water is making it there too.

It is wild. Left Stowe in the sunshine and 82F, normal warm summer day, and the car said like 66 or 67F in the murky forest pulling in down here. Like where’d summer go?

Got down to the swamp in NE CT, hit rain on the drive as soon as we crossed the Mass border from VT. In North Woodstock at like 750-800ft I think (can’t be far from @DavisStraight as we are only a mile from the Southbridge line)… misty, maybe some drizzle and low clouds kissing the treetops. Very jungle-like, half expect a gorilla to walk out of the woods. Tons of standing water on the dirt road in here and the pond is even over some docks lol. My dad has a crude/simple rain gauge and he thinks he’s at 11-12” in like the last two weeks. One time the 6” gauge was overflowing this week.

Yeah I agree with that too. For sure, they pick an Avenue and generally stay in that lane. Once they get a viewership they don’t want to alienate them, but I still think that’s largely any company. Once you get a customer, you don’t want to piss that customer off (with a story that goes against their politics). Now the real muck up is when political parties start funding media channels… it has to be happening even in obscure ways.

I mean this is literally what they teach you in Website Marketing 101 in college. I've done enough of it with even ski resort websites. It is 110% all about clicks and click through rate. It's about exploiting emotions of humans (well, really that's what marketing is in general). What emotion am I going to pry on to get you to do an action that will make business xyz money? How do I get you here? How do I get you to stay here? Those two questions are the only questions that matter when it comes to business websites. It's nothing more, nothing less. CNN, Foxnews, MSNBC, LA Times, NY Times, Boston Globe, whatever. If people do not click on it, it will not be there for long. But as soon as you click on an article, you are giving that article a "vote" of yes this is what I want. Humans vote with their mouse pads or their touch screens. They don't care if you agree or disagree with the article, that's irrelevant. It's all about the click.

IMO it’s solely revenue, ads and clicks. That’s how business websites work. They’d dump it all tomorrow if their advertisers started seeing drastic drops in clicks on those stories. But I guess to your point it’s the same thing, they need to keep you engaged. They won’t pick a path, they need you on the hook, swimming around. Check back every day for updates! With news print prior, you purchased the whole paper so it didn’t really matter once past the front page. Advertisers would get seen because once you got the newspaper you’d flip through it. Online they may only get one shot at you before you close the window or click back on AMWX. So they have algorithms that will tell them exactly what story they need you to see and then what links they want to display (probably the next top 5 clicked on news stories in the past half hour) to get you to stay on their website. Website retention is an absolute beast… it’s extremely hard to get you to stick around for a second click most of the time. They aren’t fukking around with this stuff… it’s not news it’s pure business.

Because we keep clicking on it and sharing it. Every single click increases the chances of another one of those stories. Everyone needs to go to every news site out there and click on the stories that are like “Grandmother gives away puppies to orphanage.”

Partly sunny day up here in the desert. Not sure we even had much in the way of clouds, much less measurable precip. MVL had a couple FEW obs amid CLR overnight.

Looks like SVT towards Mt Snow is getting smoked. Already 1-2” in the Albany area with 2-4” west/southwest of there towards BGM.