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Skivt2

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  1. Such awesome discussion here. I think there is this almost universal feeling that where we are as a society is bad with the “us vs them”. Yet we don’t seem to be able to stop it.
  2. “Taking it personally” implies that I think the things they say about nonlocals are specifically aimed at me. That’s not my issue. I’m pissed that they are xenophobic and are stereotyping everyone who’s legal permanent residence is not there, into the same “evil tourist” category. There is a huge population of part time residents who pay taxes and are part of the community. A huge rift is forming between these two groups.
  3. Just on Monday terrible things happened involving tourists from out of state: 1) people filmed two cars from MA illegally filling a dumpster they had no right to use. There was a video. 2) a beloved dog was hit and killed by a car that was driven by a teenager with her parents in an out of state car in front of the dogs family in broad daylight. They backed up, picked up the bumper of their car, said, “at least it was not a person”. And then they drove away without even stopping to talk to the family and express any remorse. 3) A killington employee was mowing the lawn by the Skyship and someone threw a full beer can from their out of state car and hit the guy in the head. 4) a guy wrote on similar forum to this that is “Killingtoncentric” how he and his friends Came up and went mountain biking this past weekend from a quarantine place and then went out partying and no one stopped them so the quarantine is a joke. 5) the outbreak went public And that’s just one day. According to folks in town, every place they usually have to themselves in the summer is full of people with out of state plates, littering and trashing the place and disregarding social distancing and masks. Supposedly the place fills up on weekends and empties out on Sunday same as always.
  4. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/31/nation/party-vermont-ski-lodge-led-covid-19-outbreak/?s_campaign=coronavirusnow:newsletter yep...this is what I was talking about Sunday.
  5. No one talks about me on those groups and I don’t talk on them either. Like I said community pages are a source of useful information. Duh......Things like a town meeting on a zoning change that effects you. New hours at the dump. What new business is moving into XYZ store front or which one is going out of business. Where/when are the Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts selling Xmas trees/cookies this year. What town elder just passed away. When’s the grange turkey dinner this year? Someone is selling just the elliptical you use at the gym only for really cheap, yay. How many more examples do I need to give you so you understand why reading community pages makes sense? Unfortunately these pages often reveal the attitudes of the people in town to political/controversial topics. I can say many people at Killington think anyone not from there are scum. It is what it is.
  6. It’s locals and they are all trying to figure out how to blame someone. But I predicted that would happen months ago.
  7. Sure. But all that $ you paid in for SS all your life....Kiss it all of it goodbye. Your not getting anything and your parents/grandparents.....they are moving in with you because their checks stop next year. For good.
  8. Manufacturing sucks. My husband was a high precision CNC machinist for 30 years. Automation and recessions reduced the # of jobs and stagnated wage growth so most machinists get raises like .12 an hour per year etc. The job is somewhat dangerous and high stress. You stand up on hard cement floors 10 hours a day breathing god knows what chemicals with not even a stool to perch on occasionally. And you do that for 6-7 days a week. In VT you might get $16/hour. On top of that there is virtually no security as companies lay off and rehire to keep wages down as contracts ebb and flow. In the old days you might run 1-2 machines. Now it’s 3-4 where you are litterally running back and forth all day. No time to sit for a second if you wanted to. And they expect you to inspect the parts and debur them too as if somehow there is time for that. God forbid you get everything running and have a second to spare there is no relaxing. Grab a broom and sweep. All while drilling on parts worth hundreds of thousands made of the hardest metals known; inconell, waspalloy, and shit that can catch fire like titanium using ceramic and metal drills that can shatter and kill you or someone standing nearby. They will tell you you can have Saturday/Sunday off but once you are there for a few months they change their tune and demand those days too. Sure lots of overtime. You can make decent money but it’s no life.
  9. It’s a source of both community information and sometimes community BS. Have any of you heard about the Killington outbreak? Probably not. It’s being called “Rutland county” outbreak if you hear any news at all. I know It’s an outbreak at Killington caused by a 50th birthday party with locals, regulars (like me usually) and possibly employees because I am staying in touch with what is going on in the community by reading the community FB pages. I read the ones for my town in CT and my town on the Cape as well. Those pages are full of helpful community information such as fund raising events, tag sales, town meeting issues, discussions about town ordinances and budgets, etc etc. You can’t tell me none of you read your community pages for these things. The comment about locals and masks was in a comment about the Virus outbreak. Honestly, as a person with a residence in the town, news about a potential virus outbreak in town seems like relevant news that I need to stay on top of, no? The politics and culture of a town are often reflected on their community pages. The fact that the culture there, in a community I belong to, has become somewhat toxic at times, in and of itself honestly seems relevant as “community news”. I mean you just moved to Randolph, NH. So I’m sure understanding the pulse of the community there is important to you. We made a 7 year plan 4.5 years ago to move permanently to the Killington area and we are still in transition. Knowing what is going on there seems relevant to me. Our plan has us selling in CT and buying in VT in the spring of 2023.
  10. On the Killington locals page they are talking about the outbreak they think they may have there. One person said that they have hear local people there say many times, “We don’t need to wear masks, we are all locals”. They think they are an island.
  11. It’s ironic for us because our 2k sq ft house in CT is in a very rural area in the woods on a dead end with no neighbor behind us for maybe a quarter mile or more. In VT our 520 sq ft apartment is in a four story concrete building with common hallways and an elevator. We are about 100 steps from the lift at the base of the ski area. It’s so much harder to avoid people in VT. No question our house in CT is safer and more comfy.
  12. Should be interesting in the next couple days as there is a rumor of a cluster due to a big house party at Killington with locals and part-time residents. Hearing 6 are positive, others have symptoms and contact tracing has begun. No one needs this for a variety of reasons but it’s sure to fan the flames.
  13. Even if the winter is not normal we expect to be able to live in our place full time there and we plan to ski if the mountain is open. But my husband currently needs to be in CT all day one day a week for his RN clinicals. Since Vermonters are allowed to travel without quarantining for essential travel is that our loophole? Become a Vermonter and then that one day a week essential travel is not an issue? Cape Cod is chock full of Vermont plates and has been for the past 3-4 weeks. So the whining about out of staters in Vermont by so many Vermonters is super hypocritical. We have been on the Cape all summer which is not a quarantine county. I was tempted to contact VT and ask the following: if our zip code is in a quarantine county but we have been living in a non-quarantine county for 6 weeks can we come to VT without quarantining? Or.....if our legal zip code is in a quarantine county, but we live in Vermont from October 1st to January 20th (7 days a week), but one of us needs to go to CT to a quarantine county for work 1 day a week for essential travel does that one person needs to quarantine 100% of the time? Do we fall under the Vermont resident rule because we are living there or does our official zip code drive how the rules apply to us even if we are not living there. OMG What a cluster. These rules just don’t make sense for everyone. Not everyone lives a traditional lifestyle. Grrrrr
  14. We have only slept at our place in VT one night since 4/1 when we left after living there 4+ days a week all last winter. A cool $5,000 down the drain in rent and utilities so far. Our official residence is in Hartford county which continues to be on the VT quarantine list. We plan to live in VT over this winter again and really don’t have a lot of reason to be in CT. We are going to have to switch our registration on our new truck in VT and change our address with Killington to a PO Box. There are calls to have VT mountains turn off season passes for those with quarantine county addresses. We bought $2400 in season passes. I’ll be damned if we can’t use it or the $950/a month apartment that we are paying for. Keeping us out is just F’ing unacceptable.
  15. I have started this thread on August 1st for about 10 years. It’s tradition.
  16. The internet is also out all over in CT and that means no landlines either so pretty much once the cell tower goes dark you can’t even report a fire or call an ambulance because all mode of communication are gone.
  17. Well obviously then there are lots of groups not being asked to take a risk. Why should teachers have to take that risk? Not to get into it but my job requires communicating and teaching difficult concepts To adults that have to then take action on those concepts. It’s Skype meetings all day long sharing screens with prepared materials and then answering questions as folks being to work on the tasks. It’s not easy but with some effort I’m sure it could be successful. Being in a video zoom type setting is not live in person but it is close. We are probably only talking 4-6 months before we at least have a “rescue” type treatment if you contract a bad case. And maybe 6-8 until you could assume most get vaccinated. We are not taking forever here. Why not find a way to make true remote video teaching the short term solution to save lives? Why should teachers, students and their families take such an enormous risk when so many others are not asked to take a similar risk?
  18. There are a ton of folks working from home until 2021. Pretty much the entire financial services industry. Everyone in back room office operations and IT. Lots of people not being asked to assume the risk of working in person.
  19. The always beautiful sunset over the Champlain valley from the top of Pico just after last chair In late December....
  20. I never engaged in the Facebook discussions as there is no point in getting into an argument like that. I was just lurking for local news which is also shared there. But I did see a lot of second homeowners and part time residents try to argue on the more public locals site. Threats of physical violence were made. No idea if they were carried out though. Because we can skin out our back door and had a stockpile of what we needed in March and early April we never got confronted face to face fortunately but knew several others who were.m I don’t know what it will be like next winter but I thought it was somewhat of a public service to bring this up since it could get ugly again if cases start to rise in VT as tourist season begins. If it comes to light that the clusters are due to tourism I would bet money that it will get ugly for folks with out of state plates. You are welcome not to believe me and think I am being alarmist. I hope I am wrong. But I have an inside seat to what has been said since March and what is still being said. Take from it what you will.
  21. I think I’ve failed to communicate this properly. I do believe friends are glad to see me.. The issue is not all about me. It’s a systemic problem in Southern VT. It’s an ugly truth that this issue exists. And sure, you can go to K and have fun and not even perceive that there is an issue. But it’s there. And it’s ugly. I think people coming to VT should at least be aware.
  22. My profile picture is looking down that chute when it was still untracked on a powder day. I’m about 150 feet down and past the “pucker zone” in this shot. It’s about 5 feet wide with a cable down through the top of it that can act like a rail. It’s gotten much narrower in the past few years since it’s growing in. It’s one of the steepest things I’ve ever skied and towards the top steepest part there is a boulder. Like star or goat at their steepest. The space between the boulder and the trees on either side is about 18 inches wide so pointing them is mandatory. It’s about 6 feet of straight lining you skis to pass the boulder. Getting your speed back under control at that steepness in a 5 foot wide chute with impenetrable trees on either side is the key to survival.
  23. I think I have still failed to communicate this properly. I will try again. Killington has a rather large community of people who generally attend the same large parties and all know each other. LOTS of acquaintances and party buddies in that house party/tailgating scene. There are parties even in off season with hundreds of the same people hanging out together. They are locals, ski house people, and second home owners. That dynamic of all of us having this “thing” in common was what made the place special. The people who moved there as adults to live there full time and consider themselves “locals” damn well know that. Yet a vocal minority of them are still bitching up a storm about “out of staters”. I know who a bunch of these people are but I don’t know them well. But people I do know well are on the same FB pages. In some cases folks with second homes have tried to express how upset they are by this hostility and how they thought they were part of the community. They have even explained that they need to visit briefly to maintain their houses but will avoid contact. The response is always the same. We don’t want you here. Out of staters are a problem. None of the people I know well ever get in the mix and back these people up. None of them ever jump in and say “guys aren’t you being a little harsh”. All I hear is crickets. The few local friends I’ve talked to about this say, “They are not talking about you, everyone knows you belong here”. But the issue is that when people like me hear that “out of staters” and second home owners are horrible and ruin everything, we are getting pissed at all the locals. We are annoyed at the vocal ones but hurt by the silence of our friends. Sadly our local friends don’t even realize how this is effecting us. But knowing the general sense that the “out of stater” is so hated does not make driving around there comfortable. Sure, maybe I get out of my car and a local friend sees me and is “so glad to see me”. But when I’m driving or parked somewhere I’m just a damn out of stater. So something to think about if you are in SNE thinking about spending some time up north skiing this winter. The welcome mat is not out in SVT.
  24. It’s a K locals page. Pico is really just another K mountain actually. Like sugarbush south and north without the slide brook lift
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