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NEVERENDING ♾️ The NEVERENDING Weather Thread

After barely seeing rain for month+ in Illinois, there seems to be a chance of rain everyday in Buffalo and environs. Not all day washouts, but hard to plan things.
 
Temps are good here in Chicagoland, but we're at a nasty 182 AQI today due to Canada wildfire smoke.

Yuck. I had hoped we'd be skipped, but not so much.
 
Didn't seem to really notice it on my run this morning though

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Maister said:
I didn't see the AQI yesterday, but after work I know it was bad. Visibility was probably less than a half mile.
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Yesterday morning it was drizzly and foggy here. At lunch, the rain had stopped and I went for a walk and I figured it was just still foggy out. After work I took my daughter to go see the new Spider-Man movie and when we were walking to the theatre I realized it wasn't fog but smoke. When we got out of the theatre around 6:30 it was really bad and the sky was yellow and you could smell that campfire-like scent.

I was down south a few weeks ago when it was really bad here so I asked my daughter how yesterday compared and she said it wasn't nearly as bad as it was earlier in the month.

The state issued a statewide air quality alert through most of today (I guess last time around it was only issued for certain regions in the state).
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Didn't seem to really notice it on my run this morning though

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Maister said:
I didn't see the AQI yesterday, but after work I know it was bad. Visibility was probably less than a half mile.
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WSU MUP Student said:
Yesterday morning it was drizzly and foggy here. At lunch, the rain had stopped and I went for a walk and I figured it was just still foggy out. After work I took my daughter to go see the new Spider-Man movie and when we were walking to the theatre I realized it wasn't fog but smoke. When we got out of the theatre around 6:30 it was really bad and the sky was yellow and you could smell that campfire-like scent.

I was down south a few weeks ago when it was really bad here so I asked my daughter how yesterday compared and she said it wasn't nearly as bad as it was earlier in the month.

The state issued a statewide air quality alert through most of today (I guess last time around it was only issued for certain regions in the state).
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We were the worst AQI in the country yesterday. Yikes!

It's not good today either, but the smoke is expected to clear out by tomorrow.
 
mendelman said:
We were the worst AQI in the country yesterday. Yikes!

It's not good today either, but the smoke is expected to clear out by tomorrow.
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Hit 237 yesterday. Not bad here now (we had some rain) but supposed to be bad again this afternoon.

And an outdoor gig tonight :gasmask:
 
It's bad right now. Just got back in from a 90 minute enforcement run and my eyes are stinging and watering something fierce.
 
We're at a purple toxic 247 on the AQI map at present. I believe it. Just walking from the car to the building this morning made my eyes water.
 
Maister said:
We're at a purple toxic 247 on the AQI map at present. I believe it. Just walking from the car to the building this morning made my eyes water.
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We are only at 119 right now. We had a discussion about how to address the issue due to the heat and the air quality being so poor. We are just monitoring the situation since it does not look like the AQI will get much worse over the next few days, but are asking staff how they are doing and increasing the number of in-door breaks. A few of our inspectors are going to reschedule some of the less urgent inspections for early tomorrow morning.
 
We're at 220 this afternoon here on my side of Metro Detroit. I checked the numbers when I first got up this morning and it was around 150 or something and has been slowly climbing throughout the day.

Though the AQI number is considerably lower than it was yesterday, the haze is considerably thicker out there and the smell is more noticeable than yesterday. I've also got a bit of a headache and I have to imagine the smoke is playing a part in that.
 
@Faust_Motel

Are you safe? Is the rain hitting your area hard? I’m praying to all the deities for you guys.
 
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It's nice not having to worry particularly about air quality once again. But like so many other things, you never truly appreciate what you have until you no longer have it.
 
mendelman said:
@Faust_Motel

Are you safe? Is the raining hitting your area hard? I’m praying to all the deities for you guys.
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I'm fine in my part of the state. The river in my municipality will crest later this afternoon and probably we have a dozen or so homes that may get pooling, but no velocity-type flooding. Montpelier, Waterbury, and Barre are rough and southern Vermont is nuts right now.

Irene was good practice back in 2011.
 
My brother and sister-in-law live on the Connecticut River side of the state, well above the river, so they are safe and dry. But he shared this video from the Vermont State Police in which the second clip is in Queechee, not far from their home.

 
Mrs. Maister said there were new air quality warnings issued for the new batch of Canadian wildfires.
 
Maister said:
Mrs. Maister said there were new air quality warnings issued for the new batch of Canadian wildfires.
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We were hanging out at the beach north of Port Huron most of the weekend and on Sunday in particular there was a thick haze in the sky all day from the smoke. It was dark enough early in the afternoon that it could have been mistaken for storm clouds rolling in. The smoke and haze in the sky didn't do much to stop me from getting a sunburn when I fell asleep for an hour on the float.

Yesterday morning it was pretty smoky and hazy too. The sun was very red when I was out on my run.
 
One of the county waterparks was closed to the public yesterday for so that employees and their staff could enjoy it so I took part of the afternoon off to take my kids. I got home though and it was threatening to storm badly, sirens at the golf courses around our neighborhood were going off non-stop, and there were thunderstorm and tornado watches. It didn't look like it would rain long but I still couldn't convince my kids to go to the waterpark so we stayed home and played some Zelda.

A few minutes later the skies opened up and it was absolutely pouring and the wind was really blowing. We had hail the size of ping pong balls (thankfully no damage to my Jeep that was parked outside). Further northeast of us they had hail the size of tennis balls!

The rain and wind stopped after about 15 minutes and the sun was out again. I was tempted to take myself to the waterpark and just sit in the lazy river all alone but the temps had dropped down into the low 70s so I decided against it. Oh well... we have a couple more days for employees at the waterparks later this month.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Further northeast of us they had hail the size of tennis balls!
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My sister's car was caught in this hailstorm and her rear window was blown out. Eek.

But...if you're willing to live with a salvage title 'new' car, these situations are times for great buys from dealerships.

This happened in the Yspi/AA, MI area in 2000 (I was caught in this storm with my parent's 1992 Caprice wagon) and the local Volvo dealer had a bunch of new Volvo S80s on their lot that had most body panels superficially damaged. Insurance covered the damage, the titles had to be reclassified and the dealer still got to sell the 'salvaged' vehicles at huge discounts. In an area with alot of college students, this was actually a great opportunity for 'eyes-wide-open' buyers. The dealership didn't mind at all.
 
Planit said:
Sometimes insurance companies won't insure a "salvaged" title vehicle, just need to check.
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I think simple liability insurance is often still available.

Getting a loan on a salvage titled car is likely the major issue, but if the damaged car discount is large enough, paying cash may be more viable.
 
mendelman said:
I think simple liability insurance is often still available.

Getting a loan on a salvage titled car is likely the major issue, but if the damaged car discount is large enough, paying cash may be more viable.
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I bought a Honda about 17 years ago with hail damage. I had to sign an affidavit that I understood there was hail damage and they marked the spots. I was given a regular title and they made me get full coverage which wasn't an issue. They wound up dropping about $5K off of new price $22K with 6 or so dings on the roof and 1 on the hood. They had about six cars that were about the same and they wanted to get them off the books. I picked the best one of the group.

I still have the vehicle and it has a lot more dings and scratches now. I was worried the hail damage would lead to rusting, but it never did. I don't really have to deal with salt water or road salt though.
 
mendelman said:
I think simple liability insurance is often still available.

Getting a loan on a salvage titled car is likely the major issue, but if the damaged car discount is large enough, paying cash may be more viable.
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I looked at a couple salvage vehicles while looking for one for my daughter. Liability insurance was the only coverage that I was able to get, which make since. You wouldn't be able to use the vehicle as collateral on a loan because you wouldn't be able to carry collision and comprehensive coverage. I wasn't able to find a salvage vehicle at a salvage vehicle prices.
 
I was in a meeting in a room with no windows from 2:30 to just before 4:00 p.m. yesterday when we could hear a lot of thunder and wind outside. The room is in the middle of a pretty large building built like a bunker so when we can hear the weather in there it's a pretty good sign that there's quite the storm going on. When I got out of the meeting and back to my office and could see out some windows it was very dark out there; dark enough that our exterior lights turned on thinking it was after sundown already. I sat back down at my desk and my wife texted to tell me our power went out... it's still out now 18+ hours later. :mad:

There were tons of trees down in our neighborhood when I got home, including one blocking my street around the corner from our house which had narrowly missed somebody's car who had parked on the road and another tree that dropped a massive limb on the roof of the house across the street. The family is from France and had just left to go back there for a few weeks. It doesn't look like there's much damage to the house other than maybe to the gutters and some paint on the porch but I emailed them and sent them a couple photos to let them know. Whenever we go away for a few days, one of my fears is coming home to a house with a tree through the roof or something. It always seemed like an irrational fear but maybe not so much anymore!

I got up early this morning and walked into town (where they still had power) to get some pastries and juice so my kids could have something they'd enjoy for breakfast (pastries always make them smile) before going off to their camps and there were a ton of trees and tree limbs down everywhere and the constant, all too familiar, hum of household generators running everywhere.

It's supposed to get pretty hot and muggy this afternoon and tomorrow so hopefully we get some electricity sooner rather than later.
 
Brief period of thunder and lightning this morning. Just enough to freak the doggo out and not adequately water the garden, really.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Whenever we go away for a few days, one of my fears is coming home to a house with a tree through the roof or something. It always seemed like an irrational fear but maybe not so much anymore!
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I've had trees land on the roofs of both houses I've owned (welcome to Atlanta - it comes with the territory) - that's actually a rational fear.
 
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