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It's time has passed. Focal would be my choice between the two as well. Ten Bends' Cream Puff War is the new "big" thing around here. It is pretty damn tasty.

Even DIT threw in the hat claiming "it's over" only like 48 hours before hand. He should've stuck to his guns and gone full damage regardless of what the models say.

Nice, ORH. My wildlife includes accidentally leaving a can of Pringle’s by the pool this evening when the wife and I sat out for a drink. A friend was dropping something off so we ran inside for a bit. I came back out a half hour later to clean up and the Pringle’s are gone. No where to be found but I notice a paw print on the table. Looking around I find the container along the woodline... damn bear stole them in the half hour we were chatting on the other side of the building!

My parents said they were told “it’ll be days” in Woodstock (ie your dirt road in the woods with 10 houses is the least of our concern, there’s a guy in Tolland who needs his A/C back)... my father drove over and took everything out of the freezer and fridge and brought it back to Albany where they only got rain. They are lucky to be retired and have that option to pick a home to stay in, lol.

I think it was Hurricane Wilma in October 2005 (?) that did that same thing in Vermont. I skied Killington where they had like 50 trails open in October, all on natural snow because of like 24-36” of paste that fell on the NW side of the hurricane.

Finished with 2.07” here. The river out back must’ve peaked late last night judging by the water line on the vegetation this morning, but it’s been elevated all day. Up on the mountain today there was still a lot of water coming out of the drainages all day long. Last nights rainfall and water flow from the mtns probably hit the Winooski River in Burlington area sometime today?

True! Yesterday was a high in the 60s and today a high in the 70s! Never thought it would be so hard to stay under 80F up here. 76/58 is pretty nice today.

That's the real issue here. As soon as someone tests positive, parents will start pulling their kids anyway. Half the school won't show up the next day if it's on the news that 4 people are positive in a school of 2,000... then what do you do? How disruptive is that when every school with a case is closing, then reopening, some parents don't send kids, some parents have to send kids because they have no other option... then the way the rumor mill works in these suburban towns... probably only need a rumor of someone having COVID to pretty much shut a school down. Much different than a factory or private business.

Personally I'd rather take my chances at an Amazon fulfillment center though than the High School classrooms I grew up in (maybe fire code now makes it so the windows can open?)... I still don't think any of those get the contact time person to person that you get in a school classroom with 30 people packed into a space smaller than your Randolph living room lol. But yes, everyone should be getting hazard pay. I thought what we considered "essential businesses" was ludicrous from the start... essential business means access to all the luxuries Americans are used to...essential to living or not.

For sure. I just think if I had a union I would use it to negotiate those terms. But yes this whole thing hasn't been "fair" and honestly life hasn't been "fair" for many people long before COVID.

Sounds like a normal day in a non-union job vs. a job with a union, ha. Every Target employee since the dawn of time has been saying "Can you imagine being able to negotiate for more paid time off or better health coverage instead of them just telling us to shove it?!"

Not being asked to assume some risk? You are packing a lot of bodies into extremely poorly ventilated, old school buildings for hours and hours at a time. I don't blame teachers for looking for something other than the same ol' same ol' school day.

Now that look like damage.

Hopefully the bear living in the dumpster was ok.

I feel like you guys get 0” or 8” in a summer month with a river of moisture training over SE SNE from the ocean. But you don’t do just the sustained 1”/week for 4”/month that averages show.

This backside wind is pretty impressive. Probably the strongest wind-blown rain yet just moved in with classic NW flow. That increase is lighting up some heavy showers.

Crazy. Over this way Mansfield is either having issues or it just didn’t happen, as they didn’t even gust to 50mph at 4,000ft. Something seems off though as MMNV1 has been <10mph sustained the past 3 hours. Feels windier down here.

They keep any type of summer wind records up there? Pushing 150mph is pretty sweet.

Also relatively cool, raw day but with dews. 66/65 currently. High of 68F. First max in the 60s in a long time. Inside temperature is 66F just from open doors, coolest it’s been in a while.

Just passed 2.00” rain, about what models showed. It’s nothing excessive but it has been a much better soaker than I expected in terms of lacking runoff. It’s been raining since 7am, just a steady drenching rain, heavier at times. The heavier echoes around here were moving so fast they never really seemed to sit over one spot for long, keeping the flood threat down in the mountains and allowing vegetation to soak it up. If you are going to see 1-4” of rain across the BTV CWA, generally this was the way to do it for a soaking that isn’t all runoff and flash flood.

Sweet micro-scale observations man. I love that stuff. In the end the actual gusts doesn't matter, 54 or 62 or whatever. Once over 50mph its all strong wind. Glad you guys got a sweet wind storm out of it. Do you have power? My cousin on Long Island just showed me his estimate for restoring power by PSEG is 1:30pm on August 7th.

Yeah that's solid for an open air field even in a low elevation. Being in a forested neighborhood would probably slow it down but tree top gusts were probably 50-60mph fairly widespread in E.CT it seems.

Looks like the Mount Washington peak wind in the past two hours has been 107kts/123mph! That's impressive for summer up there. KMWN 042248Z 12068G85KT 1/16SM SHRA FG VV001 13/13 RMK PK WND 120107/09 The current observation of 79G96 is pretty solid, lol. KMWN 042348Z 13079G96KT

You got an anemometer on that Davis? Man, prolonged 65+ it must look like a war zone, especially those gypsy weakened trees!

It has gotten real windy in the past hour or so in Stowe. Really don’t want to lose power. Gusts to 40mph seems to be where we start to lose power from the damn white pines on Cady Hill. A bit over 1.5” of rain, will probably be close to the modeled 2” of rainfall most models showed here.