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I find that aspect of republicanism interesting. If you follow that belief to the end point you end at libertarianism. How come a vast majority of Republicans force anti-abortion legislation, drug legislation, marriage legislation, religion in school ect.. If you believe the government has no right in an individual's life than how come they have problem with those? At least libertarians acknowledge to the most part that since they believe in little to no government (like some have mentioned on this board) they find it hypocritical to enforce with laws aspects of society they don't agree with (see above) Don't want to wear a mask cool, then keep your hypocritical mouth shut protesting that government needs to enact laws restricting other peoples rights because it makes you feel uneasy. (this wasn't in reference to anyone here, just in general)

Just got back from the Dunnville region. Haven't seen waves or surge that high in 7 years of living/visiting in the Lake Erie region. I witnessed the halloween storm but this was the first time I felt like it was actual chasing. Started outside of Dunnville and made my way to the inlaws. Had my Kestrel and registered a few gusts at 109km but not close to what Port Colborne or St.Catherines saw. Waves built steadily and just after sunset the lake overtook the 6 foot break wall (sunk and damaged from previous storms its getting fixed soon) Id estimate the wave height was about 10-15 feet. Looking directly out we can see the towns of Angola-Dunkirk. Just non stop spray from the top of the waves out in the middle of the lake facing that direction right before night fell. Nothing to do with this current topic but can you guys Haldimand-Norfolk and Port Colborne from the south towns? You guys have the quick elevation gain away from Lake Erie on that side while we are just flat farmlands like the Midwest on this side.

wow, thanks for sharing that. I guess it sets the precedence that it can/will happen again at some point

Ya, those are starting to become some legitimate gusts.

Do you think KBUF registers a gust over 65mph?

Aside from that part though the event is starting to look legit. The Grand River conservation authority over here is calling for significant storm surge and flooding in areas near the shoreline. Ill be heading down to the Dunnville-Port Colborne region tomorrow to check it out.

for Lake Ontario or Lake Erie? Lake Superior holds the record for largest wave recorded in the Great Lakes at 28.8 feet in 2017, so though it might be routine getting over 20 feet it starts maxing out the height the waves can get. I tried finding Lake Erie data and almost every article discussing 20+ foot waves had it for Lake Ontario and Lake Huron. Superior routinely goes 23-27 feet in the worst storms. It can happen on Erie but it seems to be the least likely of the Great Lakes to routinely get 20 foot wave storms.

While I enjoy snowstorms, for late November and December I can live with getting 1-2" every 4-5 days from streamers/clippers and temperatures consistently below freezing. Gives it a better Christmas feel haha. Come January-March though I agree that below average temperatures and 1-2" starts to lose the allure.

Lol don't forget elon also said there would be no cases by April. Hes wilfully ignorant with science pertaining to covid but pumps it up for global warming. Not starting a debate about global warming, I just find it funny how when the science helps his pocket book because the government is regulating fossil fuels he's down with it but the moment it impacts his factories its fake.

This is shaping up to be a nice wind event.

Ontario came out with new modelling and best case scenario we have 2500 new cases a day by December and worst case is 6K+. No matter what though ICU is strained within 2 weeks and if worst case happens we join you guys with our hospitals just being completely overrun.

Ya, looking at heading down to Lake Erie Sunday to check out the waves and possible lakeshore flooding.

what's everyones thoughts on the Sunday storm? Looks like there could be some big winds and lakeshore flooding along Lake Erie

Pretty sure the 20s are gone. It took over 4-6 years to claw back to normalcy after the 07-08 crisis. You seem very capitalist and nothing wrong with that, but my issue is this. In Ontario small businesses said "please government get out of the way and let us open" while at the same time lobbying the federal government for payroll subsidies/tax deferral/an assortment of goodies. Thats straight up socialism. My mindset is to have the government spend its way out of this but I also think businesses can't have it both ways. You want to be open then Bleep off with asking for help from the government. In case there's any misconstruing what I mean. The government should shut it down and support the businesses and individuals impacted. health comes first.

Hows everyday life out in St.Johns? Here in the GTA we keep trying to open more and more even though were seeing nearly 1400 cases a day now. Gyms, restaurants and stuff are open everywhere aside from Toronto itself.

Ontario and Canada in general is falling apart with handling it properly. Ontario is having record day after record day. You guys out in maritimes/Atlantic Canada are doing well but everyone west of Quebec is failing.

While 70s and sun is nice and the average temperature is still in the 40s, looking at the extended and it looks like November will be a nothing month. We only average 3-4" so not crazy to go with nothing but an awful start to the season compared to last year.

wow that's crazy, Ontario is now over 1100 new cases a day (a record today) but we have nothing like that as far as I know. How does something like that work for the tri-state area?

If were going to have warmth im okay with it in early November. The averages for the first half of November are still in the 40s/50s here so even -5/-10F below normal barely gets us to wet slop while the + departures gets us great early October weather.

Freezing rain and snow is accumulating in Texas-OK-MO right now. If it can do it down there in late October mid day it can definitely do it up here. Though I admit id rather it snow at night in October/November and March/April

haha. I do think were tossing around the lockdown way too liberally. My friends that go to the gym and enjoy downtown night life say this "lockdown" sucks (both are heavily restricted currently). Since I do neither and I travel to the mall, grocery store, heading to a small wedding this weekend I respond with what lockdown? hahaha they get defensive fast. Lockdown and masks have certainly become very political and clear cut lines either your with us or against us mentality.

Fast start to winter across the midwest. Someone in this subforum (forget the name) keeps putting out long range predictions and they keep nailing them. Convinced he/she is a time traveler haha

Ive never understood the anti-maskers. I have to wear a mask when working with cement, concrete sand, grinding/cutting various things at work. If I can do that in 90+ heat pretty sure they can put on a mask for a quick 15 minute stop at Wal-mart/grocery store.

I said it in another forum, but im down for doing this but you can bet I want this to be across the board type acceptance. If I have to accept defeat then I want all work from home stopped and all CEOs and mid-high management also crowding into workspaces with the rest of us. There will be no mid-high level manager directing me to work from the comforts of his/her suburban house.

I understand the herd immunity route, however what I don't like is that those pushing it (not saying you) are the from the work from home class. If they all agreed and said okay Ill go back to my office and sit 3 feet away from my coworkers ect.. Instead they want restrictions on bars, sporting events, outside of work restrictions lifted but generally still say they don't need to go back into office. I work construction and feel relatively safe but if we went down this route you'd bet id want my boss out there working with us putting "skin in the game" and not just sending blue prints and work orders from the comfort of his house because he can work remote and we can't.