RogueWaves

My would be mega bliz for the ages wasted out of season.

Only 1.45 event total here since Sunday. Been very lucky with no heavy rates with much higher amounts just to my west. 3.5+ since Thursday but so far my basement pump is keeping things from getting out of hand.

Already pumping the basement after Thu/Fri delivered 1.5+ here. The two worst floods since living here (Aug '08) were the already mentioned hurricane remnant in Sept of '08 and ofc just 2 years ago in Feb 2018 when the Kzoo river valley set record flood levels due to the heavy rain on top of rapid melt-off of that deep snow pack. Autumn of 2016 (or was it 2015?) was also bad now that I think of it. Just too damned much flooding lately. Tired of drying my basement so often. It's been beyond ridiculous but as said "it's what we do"

Back when Pure Michigan was an extension of tornado alley (1950-1985), we had legit severe storms. Great interactive presentation on the 40th anniversary of the twister that made an incredibly pin-pointed strike on downtown K'zoo. Dr. Fujita's son actually contributed to this: https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=4ab7acf6be0440df9029fc7267fa21b0

In that related article on the interview with HHS director Azar, he was asked why the death toll has been so much higher here in America? His answer was that so many of us are not in good health to begin with and are easy prey for any such wave of illness. BUT, don't tell Peeps it's their fault. No! Can't have that, after all our healthcare system relies heavily on all these societal diseases for a lot of their day-to-day business. Not only should we not blame them, but we shouldn't educate them on what not to do either (other than smoking ofc which finally has been called out as an industry of unhealthy addiction).

Yep. And utter BS it is. My CAT-5 bliz during the 3rd week of May in rainer form. May was my fave month but this year has severely tarnished it's image. Horrid cold snow and freezes followed by all this flooding crap. Can it get any worse? (don't answer that) Here comes my 3+" qpf mega-storm..

Odd yes wrt the lack of formal watches but there have been TORs. Shiawasee county twister a year or two back for instance.

"Infectious dosage" Back in 1918 pandemic they tried every way possible to prove exposure=automatic illness. Every attempt failed. There was no such thing as guaranteed transmission. Apparently if your immunity was decent you weren't likely to become a victim.

2:35 am hit 27F

In a twist of irony, the shutdown to "save the medical establishment" in the short term is now in jeopardy of hosing that same medical industry which is suffering real financial hardship and going broke here in "perpetual corona hell" Michigan. Somebody has finally woken up to the fact and yet another lawsuit was filed to re-open business. https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/05/health-care-groups-sue-governor-claim-michigan-coronavirus-curve-flattened-and-call-emergency-orders-unconstitutional.html

Under 40 are typically single. So in your world, all guys go buzz, lol. l need mine cut every 5-6 wks and it wasn't cut just prior to shutdown, so I'm really needing a trim on the backside. Can tackle the rest ok and have been.

Interesting chart that gives you an idea of how C-19 stacks up against other outbreaks. The pink rectangle is the "range" expected. Final numbers TBD ofc. It could be as low as equivalent to the seasonal flu, but likely higher. And certainly more contagious.

Still, I loathe these 30+ degree "flips" in high temps. Every spring seems to go this way as of late.

Technically, that's correct ofc. What I meant was compared to the 50 Million estimated deaths (some say higher) of the 1918 pandemic, the lethalness hasn't reached the levels that impact the societal psyche like that. A parallel comparison might be WW2 and the Vietnam conflict. Everyone was impacted by WW2 in some direct way. Nasso much with Vietnam. Meanwhile, "incidental deaths" in Michigan are up, and substantially so do the fear of encountering C-19 if you go anywhere near a hospital ER. https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/05/michigan-coronavirus-crisis-causes-delays-in-other-health-care-sometimes-with-deadly-consequences.html

And when a goat and a piece of fruit can test "positive", it calls into question just what being positive for C-19 really means? Those two medical doctors in California that arranged an interview with their local TV station said the numbers were pointing towards a 99.97% likelihood of SURVIVING the virus (for healthy people ofc). I know there are plenty here who have bought into the fear factor hook line and sinker. But this qualifying as a "pandemic" has never passed the sniff test in my opinion. CBS news even staged a line-up of vehicles in Grand Rapids to make it seem worse since there weren't that many people seeking a test when they arrived with their filming crew. I was passing through Hesperia (WMI) yesterday and decided to grab some wine from their local supermarket. The only people with masks were elderly, and the workers (some of which just pulled them up around the old folks) like my cashier. To that stat wrt the Midwest not wearing masks as much as southerners, maybe outside the major cities there's some truth to it.

At least in this article, they use more proper terminology. Other headlines just pin it all on C-19. Not only was he up in years, his 2003 stroke during a performance caused their tiger to bite and drag him like dead prey off the stage, causing severe and lasting injuries including the main artery that supplied his brain with oxygen. Another quite compromised individual (who happened to be famous) pushed over the edge. They even admit he was responding well to treatments (tho fail to state what those were). The MSM hype machine is like a dog on a bone with this and won't let go until every last person is running scared. IMO, they are paid hacks. Paid/controlled to generate a narrative of fear. Fear will steal your will and when you lose your will, your freedoms soon follow. Don't fall for it! Use discernment and pull the curtain back on MSM outlets to find "the rest of the story" and most importantly, the unbiased truth.

Don't forget how this scare was propped-up with model forecasts. Some will say those crazy high numbers coulda-woulda-shoulda happened minus lock-down, to which I give you AR and any other place that didn't jump into panic mode. Those same models used to strike fear that there'd be no ice left in the Arctic. Pfft

I've personally seen cars at almost every non-automotive factory in my city and neighboring municipalities. I'm a boots on the ground source.

Nor can you. CDC wasn't issuing pre-printed death cert's and encouraging the medical community to list every death of Peeps with "flu-like symptoms" as having died due to the flu. But with C-19 this is exactly one reason death rates seem much worse. Even heard of a case in the UK where a young man died in an accident on his motorcycle but testing positive for C-19 was listed as cause of death. Fam is furious since that death certificate allows no legal avenue to go after the other vehicle operator for compensation/damages. This entire thing was bungled from the word "go". We have a ton of lessons to learn from this event. Some of us who aren't sitting on "essential" govt jobs, don't even know when we will be able to work and support our households again. It's crap with a capital "C"!!

The garden on the south side next to my driveway is full of early blooming wild flowers. Yeah, this has been the most extended blooming duration in 11 years here. Its been really nice tbh. Solar spring months acting like spring not premature summer. Shocking. Plenty of time to flip into "sweat mode" post 22-June. Heat is lasting well past Labor Day, sometimes deep into October. Been nice having reasonable working temps so far. Nothing too crazy hot.

He may be an idiot but on this his stance is shared by many who understand how the human immune system functions. Those compromised, or too scared should remain in their bubbles. Everyone else that can should be back to business. Strengthening one's immune defense against disease is another side of the coin getting very little air time. Just like the rest of western medicine..we wait for a pill from big pharma.

76F Saturday, 71F today. Pair of aces this weekend here. Hopefully, the models all fall on their swords wrt a week from now.

I saw this outside of Lowell this afternoon. Kudos to these Peeps! Other side reads: "I AM ESSENTIAL"

Comparison attempts at this point would be like calling the final score in the bottom of the 1st. Could take a decade to unravel all the nonsense numbers from the real numbers and at least take a stab at the incidental deaths caused by the lock-down/shut-down orders. Not to mention life-long scars due to increased child/spousal abuse during this scare. Those won't be tallied ofc since they aren't deaths, but they're severe perhaps even disabling side-effects nonetheless.

Those two medical Doc's in CA were off their rockers. Because their take on this goes against the majority coined narrative they are censored? Hmm. What they've deducted based on hard testing numbers just confirms what has been known outside the official narrative for some time now. It makes total sense. It's obvious the initial knee-jerk reaction to isolate everyone was typical, if not the best choice in hindsight.