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There's a new disease going through the bird population that causes blindness, confusion and ultimately death. It's mainly been down south so far, but perhaps it's starting to show up here? We've been eschewing our bird bath and feeders this summer to cut down on the transmission risk.

Poor New Orleans. I hope more people evacuated than prior to Katrina.

This one's gonna be real trouble. Yikes.

Nah, the summer two or three years ago blows this one away in my mind. My walls and banisters were sweating into October that year. Mold wanted to grow everywhere. I believe sites on Long Island obliterated their record for most hours with dews over 70. This one has been a walk in the park by comparison.

That Fatboy Slim makes that even more epic. Awesome!!

Used to get swimmer's ear all the time as a kid. The simple solution is to put a little isopropyl in your ears after you get out. It gets the water out and makes the environment too hostile for bacteria to take hold. Quarry swimming is special, but sadly frowned upon more and more nowadays. A friend and I sneaked into one up around Cape Ann years ago and got ushered out by the law. Speaking of special, I got back to Fishers yesterday and is the water is just beautiful in the Sound right now. Spent an hour just floating on the sandbar. Very few jellyfish. Neighbors were out with their kids on paddle-boards and setting up tables on their dock for a dinner party. Just a very summery scene.

My brother in Berlin had a close call with the tornado earlier today. Couldn't have been more than a half mile from his house. Said he turned the news on and the weather man was zoomed in right over his house and saying to get in the basement. Grabbed his two kids and did just that.

Are those Asian tiger mosquitoes up there yet? I see them at Fishers. They are super aggressive and fast.

I just can't believe how green it is. Like mid-May in a wet spring.

We have approximately 5.7 million miles of electrical distribution line in the U.S. At a rough cost of 1 to 1.5 million per mile to bury them, it would cost roughly our entire accumulated national debt from our founding to 2001, or roughly two full years of all U.S. tax revenues just for that one project. You're dreaming.

Thank you for participating in this hurricane dry run. See you all for the real show in a few weeks.

I regret that I have but one bleep to give for my country.

It must've been the Cleveland storm. It happened between the big snow in mid-January and Feb '78.

I was just thinking that. Imagine if a real major CV system is approaching in a few weeks. Nobody in CT is going to prepare. It'll be like the folks in Boston dismissing Feb '78 after the busted forecast in January.

Oh look, stuck in subsidence. Good practice for winter.

Tropical Spritzer Ennui?

Light breeze with occasional drizzle. Looking made in the shade relative to 24 hours ago.

Yes, sorry. When you gotta go, you gotta go.

Really doesn't look half bad on satellite this morning.

Lol, I thought the exact same thing when I got up and looked at the radar just now. It's uncanny how he can downplay himself into the thick of these things.

Now that would be lol worthy. Just send it right to the Gulf of Maine to sputter out.

What a starved looking thing this is.

Too late to matter.