Brrr! That's dedication to your sport. Hope your fingers recovere and your team does well.

A new record low temp was set at 1pm on Mt Washington today.

Where are you located? I surprisingly haven't lost power yet but I've been checking the outage map on the Eversource website and things don't seem too bad. Any outages seem to have relatively short estimated restoration times too.

Agreeg though, they need to cut trees back.

OP, you need to read the fine print because this isn't a news article... it's a biased COMMENTARY. The author is the president of a consulting firm that uses litigation to help corporations fight regulation from government and maximize profits.

Additionally, I don't see where the author fulfilled the requirements for submitting a commentary to VTdigger.org (town of residence and a brief biography, including affiliations with political parties, lobbying or special interest groups). I doubt he even still lives in the northeast if he works for a consulting firm based in New Mexico.

From the VTDigger.org website:

"About Commentaries

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Well said. The author's throwing shade on his ex-employer and the state of VT, where he probably felt like a fish out of water, and being anti-science aligns with his new job as "president of Continental Economics, an energy consulting firm based in New Mexico." They literally help corporations fight regulation and are concerned with ECONOMICS, not the ENVIRONMENT.

gatekeeping posting on the internet about weather/safety.

Christ.

Yes, and now there's the coldest weather system in 30 years hitting on a typical winter-sports vacation weekend.

Why are we gatekeeping cold/safety?

No I didn't. How does what you quoted and bolded counter that initial conclusion?

See, I can copy, paste and add formatting too.

This sub regularly has 2-3 posts a day like "Where can I hike this weekend?" or "we're visiting from north carolina and would like to drive the kancamangus, is there gas?"

So hopefully 10 posts about "You will die. do not hike." get the point across the the absolute tons of people that want to bag peaks in winter months.

it isn't just people thinking this is the coldest state or whatever. it will actually save lives. I've myself not gone out after reading some comments on this sub about really cold weekends.

You mentioned God.. watch out for that ban hammer! /s

Eh, it's uncommon to result in being quite this level of apparent temp/wind chill.

And it is notable in some other ways: Mt. Washington looks like it may break the coldest temp ever recorded there tonight (record is -47F).

Apparently the bill has 11 sponsors, all democrats. Given the makeup of the legislature and who is governor, I'd guess this is DOA for this year.

In terms of details, it sets the rate at 4% after this year and exempts $50k of income per person (instead of $2400 under old rules).

Given the high exemption (I guess $100k for couple), I wonder how much revenue this version of the tax would actually raise.

https://legiscan.com/NH/text/SB261/2023

>1 Repeal. 2021, 91:89-100 relative to the phase out and repeal of rate of taxation of incomes, is repealed.
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>2 Taxation of Incomes; Rate RSA 77:1 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
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>77:1 Rate.
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>I. The annual tax upon incomes shall be levied at the rate of 5 percent for all taxable periods ending on or before December 31, 2023.
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>II. The annual tax upon incomes shall be levied at the rate of 4 percent for all taxable periods ending after December 31, 2023.
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>3 Taxation of Incomes; Who Taxable. Amend RSA 77:3, I to read as follows:
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>I. Taxable income is that income received from interest and dividends during the tax year prior to the assessment date by:
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>(a) Individuals who are inhabitants or residents of this state for any part of the taxable year whose gross interest and dividend income from all sources, including income from a qualified investment company pursuant to RSA 77:4, V, exceeds [$2,400] $50,000 during that taxable period.
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>(b) Partnerships, limited liability companies, and associations, the beneficial interest in which is not represented by transferable shares, whose gross interest and dividend income from all sources exceeds [$2,400] $50,000 during the taxable year, but not including a qualified investment company as defined in RSA 77-A:1, XXI, or a trust comprising a part of an employee benefit plan, as defined in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, section 3.
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>(c) Executors deriving their appointment from a court of this state whose gross interest and dividend income from all sources exceeds [$2,400] $50,000 during the taxable year.
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>4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

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Goddamn right I did and I'll do it again. Ain't got time for a cover letter and shit.

We need to keep this bill.

Did you really make a post using a URL as the title?

Yep read the book 3 times. I just can’t seem to fathom some of the things people do and you nailed it “to brag”. I mean some people have to truly swallow their pride and acknowledge when bad is truly fucking bad and to just stay home

fatalities in the whites in 2022 is in line with past years.

My living room hit 91° today. Decided to close the damper a bit.

It's the number of people who have already died coming into the winter outdoors, particularly out of state folks hiking in the White Mountains

I'm curious: how many square feet are you heating with the pellet stove, do you have some sort of circulation system near it that more effectively distributes heat around the house, and is your house better insulated to begin with?

My parents ditched their pellet stove over a decade ago because it could not effectively heat portions of the house and relied on oil-fired

Back in the late ‘90s, I was skiing at Crotched Mountain (just outside the Keene area) where summit temperatures in still air were -52F, it was great! I was all bundled up in ski gear and had the mountain to myself (and a couple college friends)

Around 2005, I was living in Vermont (Barre area) and it was -30F for at least a couple weeks…

When Kate Matrosova died a few years ago, the temperature was -35F, and winds were 79MPH, for a wind chill of -88.

Weather is already more severe than that. Temperature is -35F, but winds are 89MPH, with gusts to 107MPH. Windchill is -90F. It will get worse. If someone tries to summit anything in the Northern Presidential today, they cannot be rescued. Anyone up there without a survival shelter will die. With a survival shelter, you have to hope you can live until conditions ease to the point where humans can walk again. That won't be until tomorrow, at best.

It would be possible to summit something below treeline, but the only reason to do that today would be to brag about it. Every summit will still be open on Sunday, when conditions are expected to be be downright pleasant.

Wow. How fascinating. Who knew that extreme cold could have negative impact on one's health? Amazing.

So the 10 posts prior to yours about the same cold weather weren't enough to change people's minds, but you have single handedly saved lives. Truly doing God's work out there kid, keep up the good work.