If anyone tries to sell you on a tesla power wall, tell them to get fucked. They're trying to sell you the lexus equivalent of a battery. It stores power and sits in a room. You don't need the lexus model to do that.

Edit: Catamount did our install and they were great.

With it this cold, there's little to no moisture in the air which means there's very little resistance to sound waves.

Couple that with everything freezing to the point of brittleness and you get all sorts of weird noises from all angles and distances

It's pretty neat

Right now I can hear snaps and cracks up and down the mountain. It's loud enough to hear clearly through double pane windows

This website is leading in its wording. "A startling discovery" as a pretty glaring example. Just gimme facts and let me do my own pearl clutching

Oh I agree, but it would be a huge project. When was the last time we made a mountain rail line?

That Rutland to WRJ line would be one of the biggest developments for the state and (likely) would be a massive boon to both those cities and surrounding areas. That would be one of the few rail lines bridging either sides of the Hudson based lines (and their respective giant communities on either side of the river.)

Otherwise you have to pick your train line down in the city because they diverge from there with only bus service connecting across the Hudson. That tiny piece of track would effectively create a loop with NYC, open E<>W train travel mid way through the state + give the ability to go further into New England or Canada

I'd be ok diverting some of that Fed grant money that Burlington sops up to the Rutland area.

There are counterfeit collars apparently. Vets are a reliable source for them though

Mm... No the weather is not like this every year. I think we're well into the "exceptional weather" territory for this year.

Seresto but only get them from your vet.

Yep that's mostly what inspired the thought. We're getting ready to touch up some old cedar siding and I want to keep it in good condition. There's some obvious backsplash areas around the house so, might be worth funneling it away

This is fine. It's a school team. I don't know why people invest such emotion into such trivial things.

Excellent, thank you

Is it a pain to repair?

Thaw implies frozen in the first place 😔

Happy New years folks

Who's driving with tire chains? It's 60°. We had like...a day of snow

Sort of aside - our red tick coonhound is completely camouflaged during the autumn / stick season, so we put a neon green collar on him and switch it out for orange during the spring/summer

I'm pretty over treating college students as children. College isn't babysitting. I mean, imagine someone did this in any other environment? It's objectively criminal.

Thank you, yes that's what I was looking for

So, I don't think any of these address the major point that links a lot of these together- charge times. It takes a long time to charge an EV right now. I think that alone is a significant burden and barrier to adoption vs just driving up to a gas station and being on your way in a moment or two.

I think partial adoption is fine - cities in particular will be grand. Rural folks and professionals/contracts though, I don't think that's practical with current configs.

Honestly after looking them both up I don't think either fits

But to the point-

1. Recharge times are still long for EVs- I don't know how you leave a car to charge in a non urban area. Do you just hang out in your car until it's done? What happens when everyone needs to charge up and we only have a handful of stations?

2. Hauling, especially hauling up hill, drops the range of EVs by a lot. Plenty of folks haul daily for their jobs. How does that affect them?

3. Emergencies- we're not exactly known for cell service. Right now a small tank of gas in the back of a pickup can get you down those last miles to the nearest town. What happens if your EV dies in the middle of nowhere? Do you lug a gas generator around? How do you charge it in the middle of nowhere? I'd imagine you'd need to call someone to get you charged up. And how long would that take to get you to the next stop and then how long after that to get you home? Vs pulling into a gas station and being on your way

I appreciate electric vehicles and I do think they're the future. I'm just concerned about the practicalities of the current state technology.

Gas to electric is a really interesting question. Our house is solar run and we use batteries and electric everything when we can (which is so damn satisfying, we really love it) but I can't imagine driving an electric car in a state like Vermont. At least, logistics wise it doesn't jive with the state. I'm open to learning more about that though

Randolph!

With 247 towns measured, and with Burlington being the top Welch supporters at #247, Randolph ranks #214 - so strong Welch supporting (70.6% Voted Welch)

Of the total vote for Welch (195,409) Randolph made up 0.77% (1496/195,409) - which is in the top 30 of contributions

Right but it's not a scale of the same size. You've got places like Burlington vs places like Pawlet. So 70% Burlington going for Welch is not comparable to 70% Pawlet by several magnitudes.

I was more interested in raw numbers per town and total % of votes contributed to a given candidate (both stats arbitrarily chosen between glass 2 and 3 of wine)

You're not wrong, you're just looking for a different view than I was with this

OK give this link a try. Lmk if it doesn't work - should open up to the town-by-town tab:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i91cTlXq70N-JbtPFihh9mmOgOJMiOCj/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=116477250285210708041&rtpof=true&sd=true