powderfreak

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.

But if you have the active storm track without the cold...

Models with another half inch in the next 72 hours, on soggy ground. The Euro seems like the lighter model.

See any game out there? I know moose season just opened up in the Northeast Kingdom of VT today.

Ok, I guess the difference is that I have not based anything about how I feel about a given situation from postings on FB. I know that thread, commented that any civil discourse on a controversial topic is not possible on FB. I have yet to see or hear anything in public and real life, which is where I form my opinions. There’s no vandalism, confrontations or window smashing that I’m aware of around here. If you go read the comments on the latest WCAX or WMUR news story and applied those comments to every day life you start thinking very differently of people. Is it fair to approach every day life with opinions only generated by FB? People are still sensitive to COVID and there’s no doubt chatter online in places, but again jumping from internet talk to real life is I think the disconnect. That's why telling people “how they will be received” also has a disconnect because it’s not there in personal interactions. If one didn’t read that and just went about their business visiting, they would not be received that way.

You guys taking about growing this is crazy, I feel like we’ve been completely dead/dormant for a full month now.

Yeah theres no doubt in my mind the 4 days of mins in the 20s there in September cranked up the foliage. The valley went at the same time as the higher elevations, when it’s normally two weeks separated. The maples went bright red in the valley before the elevations...there was a period there when no real color was happening above 2,000ft while reds were bursting down low...night time radiation cold definitely played a big role IMO.

Yeah it’s in their heads now. Stein going Stockholm Syndrome, can’t leave your tormentor.

I truly think Facebook is the reason why so many people think this country is a complete dumpster fire. If you spend a lot of time on FB you quickly lose any hope for humanity. It used to be for photos of your kids, or sharing stuff with family and cool things.... but it's changed into one giant cess pool of "people speaking their mind" as they call it. It's all the sudden cool to be confrontational and very opinionated on there in the last year or two. Instagram is what FB used to be... pictures of cool stuff and sharing pics of your kids, things you do, etc. It's like a breath of fresh air after scrolling through FB.

I'm jealous and might be up there for some day tickets, ha. I think you are right about a once in a lifetime season there. The border closed is going to make it feel like a private ski area most days, IMO. That's taking 50% of their normal visitors and literally stopping them. That's no state quarantine rule or anything, that's an international border, you aren't getting through LOL. The most snow in the East coupled with 50% less customers. That opportunity won't come around very often.

That's one big hill 75 miles away.