powderfreak

To your north and to your south. Also to your west. It's pretty much got you surrounded.

It is mind blowing that Nature puts on this type of display each year. Every year it's mind blowing to see just acre after acre of a kaleidoscope of color.

Yup already 71F here too.

Defense mechanism running overtime these days. The models look widespread very wet, hard to argue against it right now.

I've seen worse foliage at the ski resort. I think the thing that's making it really nice is that there's still green mixed in with some incredibly vibrant reds. All colors represented on the hill sides right now.

Backyard cell phone shot this evening on the dog walk.

Hay the field today? That’s great color for a cell phone.

I want that. We decided to get my wife tested tomorrow. She can’t work until the results come back and they said likely by Tuesday sometime. 4 days to find out up here. She truly just feels like a head cold, nothing in the chest (ha, in another context that sounds bad to say about the wife). But everyone looks at you side eyed if you have the sniffles and voice sounds stuffy, so we are just going to do it despite the PCP saying it’s not a requirement and up to her. Going to be a long winter for head colds if that’s what it is.

-2.8 on the month now after yesterday’s +7. We are going to eat into that pretty good but I bet we can get a BN September for the first time in a while.

Straight fire. Got a memory card full to go through tonight. Rowdy Friday night coming up! Ha. Earliest peak I can remember. FB showed me a memory from three years ago and it was 100% green still. Like mid-summer.

So Connecticut should be prepared to go without power for the second half of October?

So by the following weekend, most are under 0.75”. Fair line to draw. I’ll go with 1” or more for you by next Saturday. One of these times it’ll work out lol.

So the benchmark is everyone gets 3+ (several) inches of rain? Seems like a high bar. Some will may get 0.75” and some may get 2-3”.

Yeah cell phones will never capture the real color. Stuff is intense this year.

Haha yeah looks like that’s hitting you now... we got 0.02”. This is what trying to get snow in 2015-16 was like... you cheered for flurries.

You have to chuckle at this with the minimum over DIT, even if it is 1.5”+.

Yeah like this is the wording they are using which is the same as the CDC (a fever AND symptoms). It’s a very uncomfortable position to be in, just wait till everyone is getting colds. If you think you have been exposed to COVID‑19 and develop a fever and symptoms...

Yeah I think we are leaning towards a test anyway once she can get home. But primary care and her General Manager guidance was to watch for fever. It’s really the first instance of trying to delineate between normal cold and COVID. I know at the ski area the fear here is getting into a practice where everyone with a runny nose needs to go home and get tested. It’s really tough to think about managing a couple dozen people and knowing when the right time to pull the trigger is. I think that’s why they look for fever? When my sister and her fiancé had it, they were firmly in the fever camp...101-102 for a week. Rapid testing is key.

My wife just came down with a really bad cold in the last 24 hours... runny nose, sneezing, sounds terrible, no energy, etc. Her work is allowing it fine as she has no fever and after contacting local PCP, they said it's fine as long as there's no fever. She's taking her temp every 3 hours or so. Will likely go home early today anyway but her spa has no employees and no one applying...so she needs to be there for now until someone comes in at noon. But it seems like a good starting point that everyone with a head cold doesn't just get sent home for two weeks or presumed to have COVID. The fever seems to be the really big part per the hotel group's SOP and the physicians advice. I always get at least one crushing head cold per winter...usually lasting 1-2 weeks. Maybe this enhanced hygiene though will cut down on those things like you said.

WTF is this liquid? Even enough to wet the ground! Might even get up to 0.03” lol. It's been like 3 weeks.

Ha misinterpreted it. I thought you were saying peer pressure is a negative. My bad on that (hat tip) . But certainly agree people have tuned the news out. I haven't looked at any COVID news in a long time except when prompted in this thread to be honest. Just go about your day with the new normal and you're good. No huge gatherings, wash your hands, wear your mask, and have a good day. This is certainly sustainable until

Really? Around here it seems that masks have become like washing your hands. Just something you do, like a good habit. Like it's second nature, you can see how it happened in the Asian countries. You do it for a while and it's just part of you when you go out... like putting pants on. Not out of fear anymore than using hand sanitizer every time you get in your car, just a good safe practice when in public.

I feel like the media has been doing that since the dawn of time... from everything like “drinking white win over red wine may cause you to die earlier” to various just odd ball stories sensationalizing every little study done on the planet. The media has always put out shit it shouldn’t and claimed it as gospel but no one cared when it was random studies about owning a dog makes you live 5.6 years longer on average than non-dog owners. Peer reviewed? Ha. The problem is this is the first time doing that seems to have really impacted public policy.

Yeah I was going to take Monday the 5th off with the wife to do a NNE day drive maybe over to the Whites and back through NEK of VT for some foliage viewing... I think we are going to go this Monday now. I'm afraid the 5th will be too late for this northern band from here to Alex/Phin.

In a little bit, got a bunch from this morning that may need to wait till this evening to get off the real camera. You know the pics are coming as I get them .