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Walpole Joe

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  1. The Belichick / Burton halftime interview disappointed.   No awkward silence, BB was was almost conversational, though he said nothing. Those interivews are the most intriguing part of the exhibition season. hopefully next week is more awkward. 

    Jones doesn't look bad for a rookie, he will start this year

  2. 8 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

    I mean if you want damage, the October derecho was epic. That is legit. Not some half eaten Norway maple falling on a Mercedes on Beacon St.

    I have no desire to repeat October, hole in roof and multiple trees down. 

    Was at my son's baseball game last night and they called it right as the winds whipped up and the infield kicked up. That was cool, but that was pretty much it, just heavy rain after that. I'll take the rain without the derecho, that October strom was intense. 

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  3. On 7/20/2021 at 5:24 PM, Baroclinic Zone said:

    I’ve been looking into renting a peat moss spreader and mixing the seed in with either peat moss or loam.  Seems to be a good way to get seed down evenly and covered for good ground contact.

    I used peat this spring when I re-seeded a section of my lawn that had trees fall on it during last October's microburst. I had never used peat before, had researched that it worked well and it did. Grass came up great, I will never seed again without using a thin layer of peat on top. 

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  4. Got back from Glacier National Park this afternoon...spent a week out there...spectacular....I love New England and would never leave, but Glacier was awesome...pictures don't do it justice

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  5. 44 minutes ago, Henry's Weather said:

    Lucky I got the insurance of a coastal front. We're usually guaranteed to not suck subsidence here. About a foot on the ground and the snow is super heavy.

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    I lived in Brighton on Cambridge STreet during the great winters of 1993/94 and 1995-96; that is the one scene from those winters I don't miss...was tough owning a car those winters, got towed a time or two

  6. I'm in Walpole, holy shit it was something in our neighborhood. Knew it was coming and was outside on the deck waiting for it, we live in a neighborhood with a lot of trees and woods, so I am used to the sound of wind as it approaches. This one was like a low rumble that got louder, at first I thought it was thunder but was too continuous and I thought, that's the wind. It was really dark and I Went inside and the wind just came, blowing west to east in backyard with pine needles and leaves blowing through the air. I could hear shit hitting the house, the pelting was obvious; my sons were in their bedrooms when a big pine toppled, scraping their windowns.  They saw the tree has it went by, the very top of the pine is on their roof!  I also abut Norfolk Aggie HS, i have a huge oak that is on their side, but hangs into my yard. I'm not good on age, but it's old and big, I think those woods are about 80 years old; it always survives big winds, not yesterday, lost a pretty big leder that's hanging into my yard. By far heaviest wind I ever experienced, driving around town to get to the my office was like a puzzle, roads closed all over in my part of town.

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  7. Quite the afternoon, been teeming for about 90 minutes with lots of lightening and wind. Still bolts and thunder as the best moves south of us, this is the best we have experienced in years. For about 90 minutes before it started to rain I could hear the thunder and see the bolts north of us, I was windering if it would dip south and we finally got in on the action. Has to be 2 to 3 inches of rain, I went out for a ride around Walpole and lots of street flooding with the trees blowing pretty good.  Very impressive event

  8. in order

    Blizzard of 78 by wide margin....never to be surpassed 

     

    April Fools 1997 

    Perfect Storm in 91, not as bad as east facing massachustts, but living in narrangansett and seeing things I had never seen before...high tides and fishing boats in Galilee higher than I had ever seen

    Hurricane Belle in 76......I was 9 years old and had no idea what to expect, but mom and dad remembered '38 and the hurricanes of the 50's, so I thought it would be devastating: it wasn't and I was dissapointed by Belle

    August 1975, 104 degrees in PVD....my mom was a nurse and working that day,  I remember complaining to my dad that it was too hot 

    honorable mention is the 78 combo of the ice storm and the 21 inches in January, before the blizzard

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