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I read them and agree. Unfortunately for my wife, I have been privately voicing the same thoughts, albeit not so eloquently, for a few years now.

Sorry Hoosier, that was my fault. I know 4 people who have contracted Covid and three of the four may not make it. Then Jack's post upset me. I'm trying to stay neutral and do my job of helping those in need, but it has hit really close to home. Our agency's work right now involves trying to get our frontliners the PPE to do the job safely, as well as keep residents in long-term health care facilities safe. That's close to home too, because I have several friends working with these high-risk residents. This is not official, but I can foresee the stay-at-home declaration remaining in Indiana until at least the first full week of May and maybe the second week. Once again, I didn't mean to inject politics into this, I'm just frustrated by how slow the wheels sometimes turns.

I'm very sorry for your loss Jack. From your description, he sounds like the type friend that everyone wishes they had and needs. My prayers go out to you and his family. My job has me right in the middle of this and that story just breaks my heart. In my position, I can't express my political views. I have to be apolitical. That being said, I know that it is water under the bridge now, but when the CDC declared a public health emergency on January 30th, THAT's when action should have been taken, not waiting until the middle of March. Talk about closing the gate after the cows got out. Instead, what we heard from leadership was that this was a Democratic party hoax. I don't care if the President is Republican, Democrat, Independent, or a Martian, that was poor display of leadership. This type of event is a REAL type of threat to our great country. Sorry that I made this post a rant, but when I hear a story like this, it hits home pretty hard. Once again my condolences to you Jack.

You can have it. Nudge it north 150 miles.

Chris at IWX isn't ready to buy what the GFS is selling........yet. WITH COLD AIR ACROSS THE REGION, MODELS HAVE BROUGHT ACCUMULATING SNOW FOR LATE WEEK. THEY ALSO HAVE VARYING AMOUNTS OF PHASING WITH THE GFS SHOWING MORE PHASING AND, AS A RESULT, HIGHER SNOW AMOUNTS THAN THE EC/CMC. WILL CONTINUE SIDING AWAY FROM THE GFS FOR NOW UNTIL BETTER CONFIDENCE COMES IN FOR THIS PERIOD. If that map would happen to verify, it would be the ultimate in stat padders for the D- winter of 2019-'20.

Agree. The models overdid moisture on the last storm right up to the last minute, something they were consistently guilty of all winter. Anecdotally, my "heavy rain" turned into 0.16" over two days. Granted, it may be comparing apples to oranges (Convection-robbing moisture throughout the south with the last system), but it has been a constant theme.

Had a squall here about half an hour ago. Large dendrites blowing sideways with gusts to 50.

Just curious, do people find any morels in that area?

I had some real nice boomers this morning between 2:45 and 5:30 this morning. I got up and threw a window open to listen to the rain/thunder and smell the petriclor. Ended with 1.09" although areas in the south part of the county had well over 2".

Enhanced Risk Incoming

My thoughts exactly.

Marion County (Indy) has 44% of all of the cases in Indiana. In fact, the only other counties in triple digits of cases are Johnson and Hamilton which are both suburbs of Indy and Lake which is next to Chicago. It's very obvious that social distancing makes the difference.

The GFS providing a little levity at hour 360.

Yeah, they do have low density populations, but there's also very little business and industry. Many of those people in the southeastern counties commute to Cincinnati. The same goes for the southern counties along the Ohio which are part of greater metropolitan Louisville.

My hope is that that the Covid-19 model being used by the CDC is not the GFS.

Thirty days has September, April June, and November, except March which has 8,000. Looking forward to warm rain vs. cold rain.

I'm depending on you to get some quality footage tomorrow.

This is the kind of crap that is showing up on social media. To my Canadian friends, tell me that this is not true. "All schools in Canada are closed for the rest of the school year, each family will receive $950 every two weeks for the next 15 weeks, banks were notify to suspend mortgage payments for at least 6 months, and student loans deferred. Imagine if the United States did this."

That, if true, is a prime example of what will be the downfall of this great country.

Wow. We had storms with 20 page threads this winter that didn't put down that much snow. Sitting 1.2" here, but it looks like WAA is going to win and flip us to rain soon.

I attend a large church which had already started broadcasting the services long before this happened. That's a great ministry for taking care of the high risk elderly. At least you're reaching out. I hope you're right about possibly only a couple of weeks. As Stebo mentioned above, the Detroit area was completely devastated back in '09.

Oh crap, the Big three shutting down? This will have a disastrous economic effect around here

I did the same on Friday. No fever, no respiratory problems. I assume that it's just a head cold. So, I stayed home from work and stayed home all weekend. I am working from home today. Not only would people freak out if they hear me coughing, I don't want to be exposed to something worse when my immune system is already taxed.

I resemble that remark

Heckofa cutoff. Nary a flake here