I was a little skeptical of the amount of rain the mesoscale models were putting down, but it looks like they are right. Already about a half inch and moderate to heavy rain currently.
I generally do 10 every other year. This is an off year so it is bags only. I don't really want to think about how much I've paid to have trees removed and then paid again to have different shredded trees returned.
Speaking of which, what would you say that the difference is in climate between your two locations in terms of growing season start, leaf out, etc.? Is McHenry like a month behind Arlington?
I cleaned out the garden beds Thursday and ran the mower to collect the junk. There was a lot of dust. Amazing how quickly it can change without rain around here.
I had occasionally be checking in on lumber prices since (like everyone else who retained their jobs) we were looking at a renovation. Commodity price movements have been aggressive. (Lumber top, copper bottom)
If you compare modeling, though, it does look like this is the storm that finally broke the GFS. None of the others are even close to the QPF that the GFS is spitting out.