PhineasC

Amazing fall evening here.

72/49 with a breeze and peak colors. Bully day!

Was up there today too. Very nice.

77 here. Full blown torch to go with my Stein.

This is like the heat in late May where it came down over the top from NNE first, I guess.

71 here already. Torch day today for sure. Humidity at 58% so not too bad however.

My camera just doesn’t capture the colors. The orange tree in the back is bright neon orange. Doesn’t even look real. Looks like someone spray painted it.

Ground is still a little moist just inside the tree line here.

A few life-giving drops falling now actually. By few I mean I can count them.

2" of rain would be awesome. I'd prefer 4" or more however.

LOL did you read the rest of my post. We are saying the same thing. By "peer pressure" I just mean you get into the habit because everyone else is doing it and you want to fit in, not because you are thinking about COVID death. Public pressure is a much better way to motivate people than fear.

For most people I know, wearing a mask has become more about peer pressure than fear of the virus at this point. It was the other way around in early summer. I think most people have a bit of COVID news/stat fatigue and have been tuning it out, and the hygiene, social distancing, and mask practices are really just habits now versus something they think about actively. That's not a bad thing, really. Fear of dying from COVID when that likelihood is incredibly remote is very unhelpful. Better to just get into good habits that becomes second-nature. I do know a few people who are still "on lockdown" (of their own choosing) and basically never leave the house... I am little worried about them now. It's time to come out, folks.

In order to determine the rates and severity of these long term effects, we need to follow survivors for 5-20 years after recovery and also control for the many other factors that could be causing their lingering issues (such as existing lung tissue scarring from smoking). There is no way to be speaking definitively on long term effects right now. It's just not possible.

The last 2 feet of water or so seems to be holding on for the moment. Hopefully that is where the water table is sitting. The guys up here keep telling me I am worrying for nothing and that well hasn't ever run out because there is "plenty of water on the hill." We will see. I am a worrier so I keep looking in there...

I know. It’s now on the agenda.

Oh yeah I have been out and about. Lots of stuff to do with the house, hoping that winds down soon so I can enjoy that recreation more. Ice gulch is a really neat hike. We did that back in June.

LOL yeah hindsight is 20/20 on that one.

Wow, that’s interesting. I had no clue that was there.

Yeah, trying to line up getting water delivered and dumped into the well. That would tide us over. I will be getting a drilled well put in at this point. They are backlogged to December however.

It's a shallow well so it needs groundwater. I have no frame of reference for how full the basin should look so maybe it will be fine. I am getting nervous however.

Pretty sure my shallow dug well is about to go kaput. Unless I can get water delivered or it actually rains I will have to head back to MD. Damn Stein.

The flu is much deadlier for kids than COVID. Stats show this.

It’s doesn’t necessarily apply to any pandemic. Past flu pandemics killed healthy young people and children at a much higher rate, for example.

About 4%, according to the CDC. https://fox8.com/news/coronavirus/new-cdc-report-shows-94-of-covid-19-deaths-in-us-had-underlying-medical-conditions/