powderfreak

That’s awesome Ginxy. People still wait like 5 days up here to find out.

Ha I noticed restaurants here throwing tables and chairs back outside last night as the snow melted and it’s so warm again. Lots of folks eating outside this afternoon.

Hiking to 4000ft in shorts and a t-short in November... pretty nice to be honest. Doesn’t bode well for ski season opening on time though.

Yup

November 2018 this isn’t.

56F at the picnic tables and 70F down in the valley.... full torch! Only plow piles left at my place now.

This evening's sunset was pretty good around 4:30pm. Crazy how early the sun falls below the horizon this time of year. Very mild out too... felt like a late-summer evening, happening in the middle of the afternoon. A mini-mud season. Wave like feature curling over the Green Mtn Spine.

Nah, you’ll get some front-end overrunning storm of 5” before it transitions to a hot rain. Keep the faith.

Sounds like too many IPAs mixed with an edible that dried your eyes out.

At least 69F today, hopefully MVL popped a 70F.

I could see that too, and then his son runs. I think the Trump family is here to stay in politics.

If he actually does lose, I’ve got $100 on him running again in 2024. Trump doesn’t lose. He’ll keep trying. And honestly I don’t think anyone would have a shot in any 2024 primaries against Trump.

First Female VP in Nation’s history very possible now.

75+ million Americans are pretty pleased I think, at least more than half so there’s that too.

Anyone but Trump. Thankful our country barely seems to be pulling its head out of its ass if Biden can beat that guy. Really shows why his approval polls were always so low.

I have to give it to Trump though, I mean he had this playbook running for 6 months. If elected, it’s all good. But the backup plan is voter fraud if he loses and always had been. His legal team had hundreds of lawsuits pre-drafted in the event things started going south and they needed to be deployed. He knew he’d win Election Day months ago but that most mail in votes would heavily favor Dems. They also litigated to not allow early counting of mail in votes so as not to show strong pre-election day numbers for Biden (which is a good idea to not release all those early votes) but then on the flip side if they can’t count them early, it’ll be days afterward to count them. I mean I can’t fault the playbook, he knew what he was doing and is executing it.

You didn’t vote for Biden?! <duck and run>

The polls were wrong but I think some will be saved by all the mail in ballots which everyone knew would be heavily Democratic. Nationally it might not be that far off...some of the state polls though, yikes.

Oh man I didn’t see that, thanks for the heads up.

Odd to be driving around with snow on the ground and yet I’m in shorts and t-shirt and the car says it’s 67F.

This really hit it on the head in VT.

He doesn’t lose though. He litigates everything to death that doesn’t go his way, from building permits to debt restructuring. This will be a long legal battle. The one thing I found odd was pivoting from endless voter fraud ramblings to in the same sentence praising all the down ballot wins for Republicans in the House and elsewhere. All of these races are on one physical ballot. If one part is fraud, how is the other part acceptable? One would think he’d be going after all the other races as being just as fraudulent. In this giant conspiracy where the Dems were going to steal elections, they also planned it so they would do so much worse than expected in all other races? Like let’s steal the Presidential election but to throw them off our trail, let’s lose all the other ones?

Yeah I think we could see some delays for sure. It looks mild going forward. And many areas have said they’d like to open when they have more terrain than normal to try and spread people out...so we’ll see how that goes.

Temps of 65-70F have just eviscerated what was left of the snow lol. This morning the satellite shot still had the white in north/central VT. She gone this afternoon. Mountain still has good snow but that's because it's aspect makes it very hard to get sunlight during the max heating of the day. Been in the shade since like 1:30pm lol. But snow is gone everywhere else.

Yeah this is pretty solid. I must be getting old... I loved the snowstorm but I can't say I hate this right now. Should've worn shorts.