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Ah very interesting. Big increases in BTV but I guess I still don't understand some of the tax stuff. Or maybe I do, ha... why would someone who saw their property assessment go up 40% see their taxes increase, but someone who say only sees a 30% increase would actually see their taxes go down? Is it because it's the same sized pie (the budget) and they are just altering the proportions? So if your home value rises but not quite as much as your neighbor's, you pay less and they pay more now assuming it was equal before? "If the city budget is the same as the current one, people whose property values increased by more than 40 percent would pay higher taxes this coming fiscal year; those with smaller increases would pay less.... some high-profile names — including Mayor Miro Weinberger, whose Hill Section home went up just 29 percent — would likely see their taxes decrease." Also interesting how they do commercial properties...I had no idea that commercial property was valued based on the amount of business it does. I thought it was purely a real estate valuation, not a valuation based on how the business is doing. So if your business was effected by COVID like BTV hotels (say the Hilton, Marriot, etc), your assessment is lower? "On the opposite end of the spectrum, just 66 of the city's 10,400 properties lost value since they were last assessed. Many of those were commercial properties. The Burlington Country Club, for example, dropped nearly $1 million in assessed value. Hotels, too, saw marked decreases, losing a combined $13.3 million in valuation, largely due to travel restrictions and lost business during the coronavirus pandemic, according to City Assessor John Vickery.

Drought every day it seems.

Ahh that makes sense. I just always figure they’ll want more money. They seem to buy fire trucks here like they are going out of style and it has to be the most well funded police departments for a small rural town on the planet lol. But it’s also from tons of tourist tax. Meals tax, rooms tax, etc.

Yeah I just wander around mountains all day. This is new to me. I just picture investing like Wolf of Wall Street... total mayhem, drugs and cash.

It's been insane up here too. Everything is going over asking price and most are selling in cash. Not a single home or condo under half a million on the market right now in Stowe. Honestly an article this week in the local paper reads very familiar to what Phin did... just buying stuff sight unseen and in big transactions to escape the city life. Not going to lie, I'm not excited for a tax assessment in Stowe. They are already talking about it and I know even where I am, our townhome is assessed almost $100K lower than what adjacent units have sold for.

I think that's what most feel like. I know several who say they'll get out on Friday before SNL. I think each time it goes up another ten cents it levels off pretty fast. Yesterday it did it right around 0.6.... today it shot up to near 0.7 and has sense leveled off back down a bit. Human nature is to like round numbers to get out at... it's an interesting pattern to me. It gets right up to a new multiple of ten and then people dump some, it levels off back down about 5 cents for a while under the peak.

It's the American public, nothing surprises me anymore, . I got in at 0.22 and got out at 0.6 yesterday in Doge. Its hard to watch it go up another 10% today but I had 0.5 as my "out" and then when it blew past that I mentally said 0.6... and feel pretty good that I stuck to that one finally. Made several thousand in free money to get some home improvement plans rolling this summer. It's definitely straight up gambling and definitely feels weird, I'll be honest. Certainly not "earned" money. Feels a little dirty for some reason, ha.

Crazy this was one of the better events of the season in the lowlands up here. November 2-3, ha. Such a long time ago.

A bunch of people did. I looked it up, it’s like a decade old but a town near the Mississippi River had a lot of people build walls around their homes to protect from a coming flood.

Happy Bday Dendy. One of the boards best.

I dumped half of mine at 0.6. Even if I lose the rest I'll still come out ahead.

Oh yeah this is definitely in the public delusional stage. Chart makes perfect sense.

I’m with you on trying to find the exit strategy. I feel like it may be getting close? But each day it goes to the moon again. I got in late but right now I told my wife I’ll hold for a little longer and hopefully it’ll pay for our new hardwood floors in the living and dining rooms, ha. It’s scary how it prints money, it feels very odd. Definitely legal gambling.

44F. A very mundane temperature. As boring as temps get.

Poor kids when Dad is militant about being home, lights out and at rest early, ha. It's funny, as an adult you do remember those parties/gatherings as a kid and you still remember who left earliest each time. I'm probably on the other end of the spectrum, it would do me better to skew my day a little earlier... but the late daylight this time of year is one of my favorite things. I love that long, low glow in the evening that seems to last forever this time of year. Warmest time of the day too, especially up north where outdoor recreation temperatures are most ideal in the evening. It keeps me too energized into the evening, though I can usually fall asleep by midnight.

5:30 this time of year is like the middle of the day. Can work a full day, go home get the dog and then start 2+ hour hikes at 5:30pm when it's light until past 8pm.

Yup, late, late dinners abroad most of the time.

Yeah need to have multiple apps... I use Schwab and Robinhood for now. RH purely for the crypto stuff and Schwabby for other stuff.

Raining up here. Widespread mid-40s from BTV/MVL/MPV...be glad you aren’t here.

A friend shared these. Bear clans wandering neighborhoods in the Green Mountains. With Vermont's Compost Law, everyone has a separate compost bin (that looks like any other suburban trash can)... it's easily figured out by bears as they just knock it over and smash it around a bit. The dumpsters get the bear proof bar across the top. They can sometimes beat that bar with brute strength. It's definitely an on-going problem. Bears are learning that these human trash caches provide food. Even if they don't "learn" it, they can smell it.

That's nuts, I've always wondered why people don't do more drone tornado footage but then I realized they like getting their drones back at the end of the day.

Good husband. I'd have my neighbor call saying something happened at the house and needs me to go solo up there for a couple days to check it out LOL.

Look at that dynamic cooling on the 18z GFS bomb. Just top down cooling at 925mb.

Early and late season is when the NNE higher elevations get their business done for sure. Mid-winter it's usually pretty even as you saw when everyone has chances for snow. It's the October/November and April/May snows that really separates the high terrain. Head down to MD in the middle of winter and then come back north for the late season bombs. The big spring snows always happen because we usually have more moisture to work with and systems seem to be slower moving. Just need to be high enough in elevation. Getting the kids in the car for this one? If you don't, then @cpickett79 will be camped out on your deck.

Nah with an average like that you'll just always get crushed... or at least "struggle" is a very relative term . NNE climo is all about wind flow, you are right though... you saw what wind direction worked better than others. As suspected, E/NE flow is your bread and butter. W/NW works too. SW through SE seemed like the events you were more mystified about. About as one would expect though, a more northerly 925mb wind component is going to be better on that north side of the Presidentials than a southerly component. Good learning experiences.