weatherpruf
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we could not grow the amounts of food we do without pesticides. period. and we'd be inundated with roaches without them too. not all pesticides are onerous; boric acid and baking soda are pesticides. pyrethrins are pretty safe. if you've ever had a roach hitch a ride in your groceries and drop an egg sack, you would be much more inclined to be friendly to pesticides.....
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my son's entire job is determining impacts on wetlands. been tough to take samples this year with all the dry soil. developers often get pissed at him for delaying their projects, but there is a criteria and a set of plans to be implemented if wetlands are present. and unlike some idiots on the supreme court, he knows that wetlands don't have to be connected somehow to running water.....because he has a degree in this stuff....
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the weather must be boring.....
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sure, if you have a good down parka.....i used to hike all winter, jogged when i was younger. it was cold. very much so.
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many kids did not do well, i was working in schools at the time. motivated kids did well, others did not, and the data bears this out. but hindsight is 20-20 and there was no playbook for this. over a million dead...the worst results in the developed world. my kids did fine online, but some kids just never logged in.
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when i started teaching in 1988, teachers told me what a disaster it was in the 70s as they watched the sunrise during first period....kids at the bus stops in the dark, walking to school in the dark...
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i don't do tog anymore.....something has happened with that fishery. back in the day you could catch a mess of them, i used to fish under the verrazzano.....the block island sound fishery is a good one though, but these limits, jeebus....guys are eeling bass already up here, but those are resident river bass. gotta see what shakes out after this storm; my guess is inshore is kaput; but it might get those stripers moving our way. going to dinner now for some porgies and sea bass, the last of our catch earlier in the week. see you out there, cap....
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you don't chase the stripers? the best of the season is mid november up here...
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funds that are unlikely to come these days.....hey we don't need fema right? the states can do it all themselves......
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how would you know? have you served in government?
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indeed; the 80s were rather mild. could start flounder in late feb and get on them again in december. we did not have stripers though.
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there's always a power sailer......sailing ain't my thing, and i wouldn't ever step on a boat at all if i could catch enough fish from shore. up in maine i can, and do, right from the dock. tried taking a canoe out. well, you should learn how to do it before you try. thank god the water was warm.....
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i'm old enough to remember the edmund fitzgerald loss in lake superior....35 foot waves at one point, with computer simulations showing some 46 foot waves.....she either got swamped or had a structural failure. a sister ship reported a " three sisters" set of waves that passed over them and headed in the fitzgerald's direction....3-4 foot is enough to scare me....raritan bay gets those short chops and we got stuck in one last summer during a thunderstorm, went from flat to evil in about 10 minutes. i'm getting too old for that.....the local captains seem worried about this storm. that should tell us something.
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that was all rain. i remember it. perhaps you mean late feb?
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wow.....i was thinking to sneak out tomorrow before the storm, 5-10 northeast...now i'm reading 10 and then southeast....i'm not getting suckered again, it's lonely out there this time of the year. looked at the party boats, they reported a 'solid pick ' in other words not that great. not spending a fortune to go out there. hate to see the season end so early. it's a long time til may. you get 6-9 rollers in the sound whatever fish are around are going to head to sea. i don't remember these early storms back in the day; we had a nice long fall season. now we get these offshore storms back to back and then go into coastal rains. we used to actually have winter fisheries, whiting, mackerel. all gone. so, time to start thinking about winter, hope its not a boring one.....
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