powderfreak

Not if this fall is any indication. We've had too many people to handle 50% restaurant seating and the regional ski area activities. Wait times at the Stowe and Killington gondolas were 1-2 hours for a month worth of weekends in a row. This is why I was saying people have been getting angry because they can't go out to dinner (sold out at 50% occupancy), they can't ride the Gondola (1-2 hour wait), they can't take the Toll Road (huge wait and traffic)... These are crowds with severe quarantine restrictions! Backed up a good half mile from the summit. Bumper to bumper grid lock... like Cape Cod on July 4th! A very long way from the Gondola. Cars parking as far as you can see. Only reason for the open spaces is they stopped letting cars in.

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You know where the airport is relative to the city?

That is a massive area of 30dbz or higher and it’s not moving.

You should hear the Canadian public service announcements on the radio up here. My wife is always like “What the hell was that? Oh that’s the Canadian station.” The Montreal radio stations have these dire warnings... “Gathering with family and friends is prohibited. We are now back into Level-4 Maximum Alert. Bars, restaurants are now closed. All activities cancelled. Visit website.Ca for more information.” Etc. I should record it. It sounds like end of the world and they play these alerts like every 15 minutes.

Yeah not going in the right direction. Today’s news was that per New York’s criteria, Conn/PA/NJ would now require a 14-day quarantine to enter New York but Gov. Cuomo made the smart decision because of NYC to only strongly discourage travel from Connecticut, Jersey and Pennsylvania to New York. But they would be red otherwise by the metrics. Lucky for NYC... or New York would be a no fly zone for all neighboring states except VT and MA. Everything going in the wrong direction with more states and areas added weekly to different state restrictions. #BREAKING: TECHNICALLY, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut now qualify for the quarantine list. However, Gov. Cuomo says they're too interconnected to quarantine from, so travel is just highly "discouraged" there. >>

Nice Ray, I like that format of having those instead of integrated in the actual outlook.

Yeah there’s nothing I can’t do... everything is open. Movie theater and bowling alley and all, but I’m not big on that stuff anyway. Don’t know one thing closed around here. But I do think folks are still quite sensitive to the public health guidelines, maybe more than other parts of the U.S.

Yeah build an X-Games moto track in that field out front for the kids on their skidoos. That’s the way to go. Brap brap.

4 years ago on this date... crazy to see the foliage compared to stick season this year. I remember this photo even made the Weather Channel thanks to Jim Cantore.

Been raining steadily up this way. 0.35” in the last 24 hours. Ground is just water logged and soggy.

Hard to say IMO. I go more with people over profits type mentality but that’s Vermont bleeding into me lol. Then again if you tell people we might get another $1200 stimulus, the answer is usually “Why?” Plenty of jobs available, can’t fill them. I think the small businesses need help but I don’t see or know of anyone out of work due to COVID anymore. I think we might have struck the right balance inadvertently.

Yup, definitely more liberal state plays into it here despite the Republican gov. He’d be a socialist in Florida, ha. But I am sure if I didn’t go to work I wouldn’t hear about COVID except online. You just wear a mask indoors and do your business.

No vaccine and the state guidance. Do you know if NH workers do the same checkpoint and screening like here and Mass (like TauntonBlizz said)? I think working at a physical location and not working from home you get exposed to it a lot more. If Mass does this too with workers, then it’s not as weird as I thought lol. I truly think if you were up here at a second home like you are in a rural area you wouldn’t know it either. Go into the NEK, COVID gone, lol.

Was something wrong? I know this is extremely stressful for you, but if you are doing you then just live your life. I get what you see online, but don’t let it ruin your day... just like taking comments personally regarding politics online. I still haven’t seen anything in real life or heard from any tourists and I come in contact with A LOT of them. Thousands and thousands the last few weekends. They seemed to be smiling and laughing and having fun. Don’t let the internet ruin it for you, people are having fun it seems.

Yeah it’s a tough spot to be in. A friend (not a ski area employee) had to go to a funeral in a hot spot... he had to take two weeks off before he was allowed back to work! Luckily he was salary and could do some work from home. Hourly employees would be screwed in that case. But yeah, the losing your job if you violate is a pretty terrifying position to be in, so no travel for now.

I just like stoke, weather and ski/mtn photos. Its such a shame the way the travel quarantine has evolved. I haven’t seen my family in a while and we can’t travel to any red counties without taking two weeks off from work. That definitely plays into it, it goes both ways for visitors and Vermonters. We likewise can’t travel out, as part of the COVID regs is employers need to screen their employees...so my wife and I need to answer questions every day before work about if we’ve traveled to a spot necessitating quarantine. If you lie, it could cost you your job. Friends who work at UVM or professors at Johnson and Lyndon State colleges also report the same thing. They will face serious disciplinary action if found to travel to red counties and not follow the guidelines. Employers are following the VOSHA and state COVID guidelines by asking daily questions prior to work. But it’s certainly both ways (inbound and outbound), and honestly when you are reminded about the quarantines every SINGLE day before work, it’s always top of mind. Before going to work I stop at a health screening checkpoint mandated by the state and someone literally asks me out loud every day if I’ve traveled to a location requiring quarantine. My wife gets the same thing at her hotel/spa too. Its almost like a brainwash for people in the state to hear that question every single day.

Yeah I’m not in the smoking side. Mine has been edible when done. None of the smoking side effects. Not a fan of cigars at all but not judging anyone on what they do to relax. But again, back to the main point if you are ok “by all means do it!” with it then you should want those tax dollars. It’s not about whether you do it, it’s a good way to get revenue like cigs or booze tax. Cigarettes are another that’s hard to understand how that’s legal given the public health issues that arise.

Yeah plenty but they are likely drunk and on meth too. I get the type you are referring to. Drinking has been proven without a doubt as the primary catalyst in domestic violence cases though.

No offense but you come off like it’s the 1970s dirty hippy image of weed smoking. That’s long gone. Now your financial planner and grandma are relaxing with it. I’m not a regular user but fully think it’s out there in such quantity that if booze is ok, we should take the tax money. Same with sports betting, though I do think that destroys lives more than weed and booze.

The vast majority of domestic abuse cases involving spouses or their kids has something in common... heavy alcohol use by someone. My grandfather was a bad alcoholic to the point where you find vodka bottles hidden in closets...made my mom’s life hell and her mothers the same. I have no doubt if he just smoked a joint on the porch at night instead of a fifth of vodka the experience would’ve been different. Drunks like to destroy stuff, fight, get angry... stoners like to sign up for a Netflix subscription. No one goes outside to smoke a bowl and came back in to beat their kids or wives.

Euro keeps us soggy over the next 3-4 days. 7+ inches in the past 3 weeks, but every event lately has been moisture laden, the firehose just changes angles a bit. Every few days it seems there's an axis of multiple inches of rain through the northeast somewhere going back to late September.

Ha yeah my bad that’s what I meant.

I love his tactics of getting an opinion out of Scott or Will... it usually works pretty well. Tried and true. Paint them in a corner and make them remove themselves.

He played a key role in extra innings in 2004’s “Four Days in October.” Wakefield entered Game 5 in the twelfth inning with the teams locked in a 4-4 tie. His knuckleball had been effective against the Yankees in the past, and this game was no exception. He wound up throwing three scoreless innings, and picked up the win when David Ortiz hit the game-winning single in the bottom of the fourteenth.