Just saw something about wildfires in the Carolinas. Figured that there might be 2-3 going on; but the number was in the triple digits for the weekend (don’t remember the exact number)! One big one near Myrtle Beach; not the type of area I would expect one. Thankfully, no injuries or major structure loss, but I never remember hearing about more than one or two at a time when I grew up there.
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Awesome… I have Jury Duty on Wed and there’s nowhere to park there so mass transit and walking should be a pleasure…
I wonder if walking in completely soaked is a way out of it?
I will be telling them to pick a new address to get jurors from. My wife got stuck FOR A MONTH in the same courthouse just 7 months ago!
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Called my aunt who is in South Carolina today. She was okay and was clueless about all of the fires. We chuckled when she said she hadn’t been watching the news but was pretty sure the fires were all in North Carolina. Had to get off the phone with her as she was practicing for her singing gig tomorrow. She’ll be 80 in May.
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Remember, weather-related issues don’t just affect Sellers in the area, but also warehouses, supply chains, shipping logistics, and deliveries.
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Nice… NYC Reservoirs are getting hammered right now… If you go back to August, we’re down a freaking foot in rain… Reminds me of the drought from 42 years ago. Hope we don’t get there…
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ASV, we have always had droughts in NYC and in the Mid-Hudson Valley, where I grew up, but none were serious.
Not sure why you are so worried. We have never really had serious water shortages in NYC and environs. It rains a lot here.
One of my grandfathers, who grew up in Michigan, used to call them dreuths.
One of my other grandfathers, Cornell U vet school class of 1907, took care of the mules that built the Ashokan Resevior.
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I’m just looking forward to the road salt getting flushed away, and hopefully some more rain coming soon. This year has been bad enough that the iced tea is starting to taste salty!
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It is coming down hard here right now and has been for the last 2 hours + what we had earlier. Intense winds too. I could do without the wind but the rain is just what the Dr/ ordered especially since there isn’t any more in the 10 day
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I went to the Ashokan preserve with my kid in 2017 on a 3 day trip. Very cool place. The bunk beds the parents had to sleep in, no so much…
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Yeah, wind was pretty intense. I took a short walk about 3:00, just before the storm was due to hit; nearly got blown over a couple of times. Had to put a cinder block in the trash can to keep it from blowing away.
And we got a really strong downburst a bit ago, so streets should be washed down pretty good. Hopefully the same can be said about uphill from here.
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I got lucky tonight. It’s trash night and I was taking out the recyclables out my basement door to the cans, not knowing how hard it was raining. There was a bag from the weekly circular that must have blown off someone else’s property and landed squarely on the drain down the stairs by the basement door. About 3" of water had collected in the area. Another couple of inches and we would have had some flooding inside.
If it wasn’t garbage night, and I didn’t think it stopped raining, I’d be shop vacing / mopping right now…
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Not weather related as such, but we were on a two week vacation for the first time in about forever. Left Kahului airport last night at about 9PM Hawaii time and got back here at about 1:30 PM CST. It was about 78 degrees when we left. When i looked at my security EUFY camera yesterday all our snow had melted. Landed this afternoon to 17 degrees and SNOWING. Just enough to coat the lawns and roads, but seriously?
And to top it all off, we just got (almost) adjusted to a 4 hour time gain and we now are going into Daylight Savings Time on Sunday.
How much interest are we getting on that savings account? 
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I thought someone was supposed to get rid of this? Promises made, promises made…
TBH, I like it light out at 8PM in the summer. Makes it feel like summer.
The only advantage of getting rid of it for me, aside from a slightly less screwed up sleep schedule. is I can do my 4th of July fireworks an hour earlier…
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Something like 70% of the public wants it GONE. Actually, they want changing the CLOCK gone! The problem seems to be that there is no agreement about which way they eliminate the clock changes.
Keep it as “Daylight Savings” or keep it as “standard time” I don’t care – just QUIT screwing around with changing the freaking clock twice a year!
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I think it has to be an act of congress. 70% sounds like the highest approval for any policy change
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We could split the difference and take 30 minutes from both ends and just call it “American Time”.
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So many non-connected devices are already programmed with DLST in them. That will be a pain to deal with but it’s better than losing sleep, or not being able to go to sleep
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Oh crap; we’re already at that point??!!
I like being on Standard Time, because one of my favorite radio shows to listen to comes from Arizona, that doesn’t change their time. So when we’re on EST, it comes on at 8:00, which is perfect; during Daylight Time, I have to wait until 9:00.
And frankly, I’m okay if it got dark at 8:00 during the summer; can’t we flip it around so that I’m not dealing with sunset at 4:30 during the winter???
On the bright side, it’s Nisha’s spring break week, so at least she’ll have an extra week to adjust to getting up absurdly early (you think 8:00am classes were bad as a student when you were in college? Imagine the instructor who has a 40 minute drive to get there.)
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Move to AZ, where most of the state( except Native American Reservations) never change its clocks! It’s cheaper to live here than in HI(which also doesn’t participate in Daylight Savings) -though the desert has its own beauty… except in high summer, when observers might be fried!
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This.
I think getting rid of it would cost untold $$$$$$$$$ and that’s why congress doesn’t want to act. No one wants the fallout.
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