powderfreak

I posted some shots a few nights ago in the banter thread I think. It’s been just as busy in Stowe as any other fall foliage season. Huge traffic jams, long waits for everything, etc. Just packed. IMO the quarantine guidelines seem to be just that... guidelines (with no enforcement) not laws. Its like the State said “The speed limit guideline on the highway is 65mph, but no there will be no enforcement, no troopers, no radar guns.” Everyone would drive however they please. Just this morning was chatting with a car rally that stayed overnight here and they were from all over the country. Lamborghinis, Ferrari’s, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Porsche’s, etc...impressive cars. They were over in North Conway I think and next stop is Lake Placid. There was probably $2 million in the parking lot in vehicles.

The mountains are very soggy, ha. My total is low compared to 1500ft I’m sure. Yesterday was a lot wetter at the office, seemed to rain small droplet stuff all day. Got home to dry roads after it rained all day up here. I don’t think you have to worry about the well there, lol.

0.76” in the past 4 days. I’m at 8.01” now for the last 30 days. It can stop anytime. Looks like another round lining up for later.

You’re a tough one to figure out. Talking non-stop about Stein, but also don’t want the rain.

It’s been raining off and on for days now. Not impressive rain, just like 0.2-0.4” a day, but this is day 3 of that I think.

It snows.

Yeah if it was big up here and big in SNE, I’d imagine your area had to do well too, but who knows. I just remember a very active winter from Nov - March. February I remember did melt in the second half of the month but then we recovered and then some in the early March event.

One of my favorite winters 2010-11. Hit 40” depth, 160-170” total snow, many upslope events, several big synoptic events (27” March 2011 was biggest event), 330”+ at the ski area. We had a fun February thundersnow event that dropped like 8” in a quick 6 hour system.

Ha! Well played.

Some just never call for a mundane forecast. Never say just below normal or even normal. It has to be a full ratter or the deepest winter ever. No middle ground because what’s the fun in that? Those are sometimes the only two options for certain folks lol.

Reverse psychology has been around the forums for a while. I’ve used it. Set expectations at zero lol. But don’t project that on everyone else.

I still don't think I see enforcement. It seems like that moves into an uncomfortable level of state's rights. I personally am not for enforcement. I think it can be an ask, a request, but legally I'm not on board with actual enforcement. I think the only reason for some sort of control valve is from how busy it has been this fall. Any outbreak, tourist and especially employees, has the potential to shut things down at least on a local or business level.

I believe it. It has not been "dead' and you don't hear the tourist industry cratering, to be honest. You made a great choice. If I was working remotely or owning a company on cruise control as I think you put it, I'd probably be heading further away and out there. We really enjoy the services, restaurants and general stuff going on here at this time in our life, but at this rate we'll be heading further out in the next 5 years. Might be too late by then with the real estate market though.

It has been incredible! It's so crowded the experience is actually negatively affected on that end. Some of these people think they are going to be "sneaking in" to enjoy a less crowded area... LOL joke was on them. Thousands of people in town lately... the Waterbury/Stowe stretch of RT 100 from I-89 has been bumper to bumper for a month straight.

What would this look like without any travel restrictions!?! Just overwhelmed as it is. There's money flowing.

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.

2” last hour, 4” on the ground lol. KMSP 201953Z 09009KT 1/4SM R30L/2800V3000FT SN FZFG VV006 M01/M01 A3011 RMK AO2 SLP205 SNINCR 2/4 P0010 T10061011

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.