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The carnival barker is back, "Step right up, see if YOU can be the first to win whack-a-mole! Take on the challenge of whacking at 'a bunch of lies...' and win a goldfish or a box of chiclets, your choice!... Pay no mind that the previous innumerable attempts have failed to make it see even a single error in its ways, YOU could be a WINNER! Step right up, who's NEXT?..."

...aaaand there it is, step right up folks: the self-appointed arbiter of intelligence and truth has opened its booth. Take your turn, one booth multiple games: strawman knockdown; whack-a-mole deflection; link-me-up; and dodge-the-hive attack... step right up, who's next?...

Ash trees are just starting, they're behind everything else here except the two 130+ yr old Mulberries that are always last to leaf out (may be why they've endured)... they otherwise look healthy and are well-established, it could be an early sign of EAB damage

Generation has nothing to do with it. Ideas and statements do. Taking responsibility for one's own views and statements, rather than attributing critique to a false generalization, is liberating and highly beneficial to learning.

Faced the same situation in a new suburban subdivision. Decided against the variance route, and the permit - it was a 12x16 I built myself. Put it on cinder block supports. Never had an issue, town re-appraised on a routine schedule and just added the shed to the property tax. Sold the house and never had an issue. I got advice from a neighboring town building inspector who I knew personally: if the shed isn't permanently anchored to a foundation, it could always be moved (dragged) to comply if there was a forced issue. Went with that and worked out great.

May 9, 2020 daytime snow led to one of the funnier memes in that awful time period:

About 1 foot, tough to measure due to late drifting. Just a pasting for the first 3/4 of the storm, snowed hard with temp at 32.2 most of that time. Power went out at 10:30pm and still out.

33.4 mod snow wind NE 7.6mph

Flipped here, SN- 35.6/35.2 0.21 precip NE 3.8mph

35.6/35.2 rain/mix 0.21 precip

Light rain started about 7:30am, temp was 37.5 with dew at 35.6. Now seeing mixing at 8:10am, precip a bit heavier. Temp 36.0 dew 35.2 Farmington NH near New Durham line

"April is the cruelest month." That's beyond dispute in my book. If I had $$ for every time I heard Barry Burbank reference a "Wheel of Misfortune" spinning endlessly in the western Atlantic during April, I could retire. Cruel but unfortunately around here, not unusual... punishment.

Same thing happened on my Ariens beginning of this season - easiest way to fix it is drill a hole to make winding the spring simple - found this video that shows how it's done plus a few good other tips, made the whole repair 15 a minute job (not counting the 11 mins to watch the vid) Worked like a charm, Good luck!

2" - 3" per hour stuff here, lots of whiteouts & drifting with gusts picking up under that band

Moved May 2016. Couldn't help noticing the Auburn wall of defeat in action on radar this morning - there was a continuous hole centered on them for about 2 hours, while things were ramping up here. I don't miss that a bit. Better convective stuff here in the summer too... But it's wild outside right now - the treeline 60 yards away getting obscured and disappears in any gusts. Interesting to see where this thing pivots later...

Thanks, curious what creates it. Up to 8 or 9" now, on a ridge with eastern exposure so drifting is an issue. Band seems to reform overhead with good inflow from GOM still showing. Hopefully it expands west to get you into the goods.

What creates that attenuation angle running thru Sanford down to Rochester-Dover? Looks like the heart of the band extends Farmington to well off Kennebunk including under that attenuated wedge?

Perhaps radar presentation of the Auburn wall of drought (works equally well in winter as in summer)