SomeguyfromTakomaPark

We’re all fine, glad to hear you don’t have it also. I’m the only one who has any symptoms and my only symptom is still just loss of taste/smell. I’ve been feeling fine, can’t go running til my 10 days are up but i have a home gym so I’ve been lifting and doing row intervals in my basement. I’m having a beer on my front porch that I can’t taste at all watching this storm come in.

Cool clouds too, do these have a name?

Pretty nice wind out ahead of this storm, getting some nice 20-30 mph gusts.

At least we’re not Phoenix!

For anyone interested there a lot of places offering rapid tests now. I got mine at Medstar urgent care in Wheaton and had the results in 15 minutes. I also saw there is a saliva test now which is fast too.

Hey, I’m still ok. The main thing now is my senses of taste/smell are completely GONE. Not just like a little dulled, straight up nonexistent. Other than that the only thing I notice is a slight sense of lightheadedness/brain fog type thing, but it’s pretty subtle. This whole situation is kinda a mess though. The only reason someone in my household had to break social distancing was to fly on an airplane to get a potentially life saving medical treatment, and that’s where the covid exposure happened and now the whole household has it. Luckily no one has had any symptoms that are that bad though.

Yeah pretty much, I was *maybe* a little more tired than usual yesterday but I still ran 5 miles in the 85 degree soup air and didn’t feel terrible. None of it was/is very severe at all. I usually get at least 1-2 colds every year that are way worse than this. **knocks on wood**

*knocks on wood*, it seems to be. I wouldn’t even consider my symptoms to really even cross the threshold of a mild cold. Only reason I got tested like I said was proximity to someone vulnerable.

Well, opposite of @WxUSAF, just tested + for covid. Had a minor headache the last few days and a stuffy nose, went in to get tested just to be safe because I have regular exposure to someone who is immunocompromised.

It would be hard to overstate the amount of lightning I’m seeing to my south from takoma park. Saw some incredible gigantic Zeus bolts.

So much lightning with this one....just nonstop rolling thunder and flashes.

On that point, to each his own. As a teacher I only feel qualified to expertly teach my level of course (high school physics). If all of a sudden I’m trying to teach world history or reading to a kindergarten student I don’t think I’d do a great job.

It’s hard to blame the school system for the failure of society at large. In order to open schools you needed to get a) transmission down to an extremely low level, b) have rapid testing results (like China), and c) have enough contact tracers to track down contacts. In the northeast we’ve mostly succeeded at A, and in some places (MA, DC, VT, NY) at C but not really at B. You really need to have all 3 to open up safely.

I was in a gas station off I-81 near the 3 really big crosses and no one had a mask on in there.

Agree totally, also doesn’t help that schools really water down the grading policy. In dcps all the kids automatically passed for the most part, once they figured that out most of them didn’t log on very frequently.

I see some mid level rotation in takoma park.

Wow it is way grosser than yesterday morning, dew points 74-77 around my area.

It’s been pouring here basically all night, well over an inch of rain now.

Heck of a storm in takoma park, we’ve been getting hit quite a bit here this summer. Nice for me cause I planted new sod this year.

That does seem fun. Teaching at that level seems like a different universe than teaching high school.

What do you teach, if I may ask?

I know this probably isn't even being considered, but outdoor classes would be a good solution. This would especially make sense for rural districts that have more space. You'd need to set up those big carnival tents and figure out bathrooms and stuff, and of course you'd have to deal with the kids and families complaining about the bugs/heat/cold/whatever, but IMO it's a much better solution than Zoom classes. As a teacher I'd be excited to do it, all I'd need is some kind of portable white board. In this region we could probably run it almost to Thanksgiving without major problems.

Pretty impressive heat again today, 99 in Silver Spring, 100 in Chevy Chase, 101 at the zoo.

National Zoo is at 99

Clear sky, lower dew points, 90 already at DCA, maybe today we hit 100.