Kind of rules

As somebody who has works at yacht clubs around the bay and Burlington area, I don’t think you guys know what pretentious means. Believe me, at other clubs around the US I have been treated like “the help”, but in Vermont I have never gotten a pretentious vibe from any club or club member.

Nonsensical is the word

When we got our home inspection the guy doing it showed up carrying a firearm, my wife kindly asked if he'd leave it in his truck, when he came back from putting it away he explained he had just come from orange where i definitely remember him saying something like "people in that area have shot at my truck when i'm on dirt roads heading to inspect houses" and making the sound like bullets whizzing by

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If I had a dollar for every time the wife said “they must have their high beams on” and I was like “nope”….

Town clerks print an index of grantees/grantors with the book and page where the deed/mortgage/etc. can be found.

I know the Town Clerk in Manchester used the one day the website came back up to get those indexes printed. But a lot of Town Clerks are part time and grossly understaffed so not all clerks could pull off what Anita did for Manchester.

Was that taken yesterday? Looks like quite abut of snow

Someone must have went crazy with the sharpie on that phone call

I put up the cheap-o plastic gutters and brackets from Lowes 10+ years ago and have yet to have an issue. They fill with ice and snow but I spaced the brackets fairly close together so that helps.

It depends. When I was looking at houses in the Rockingham area, one of the places I looked at outside the village had double the taxes of a similar square footage house within the village. There were probably a number of reasons why, such as more acreage, the view tax, etc.

Probably because you have to drive through towns on those routes and it can get congested due to lots of signage, 25mph, pedestrian traffic, single lanes, overly courteous VT drivers, and so on. VT roads were made before cars so everyone built up to the path that existed then. It's really hindered expansion of roads, which is part of the charm of VT I suppose.

I, too, was here for the party

Correct, and that's why it's not the reason we call them pretentious.

Paralegal for a real estate law firm here.

Per my local Town Clerk, it was a Christmas Day hack. No ransomware detected, per the host sites (Cott Systems/Record Hub) Forensic audits are being run, according to title insurance companies.

If the hackers were looking for SSNs, they won't find them there. But it's not a bad place to start for stealing someone's identity.

There's been a lot of spoofing of attorney emails to facilitate wire fraud (successfully in one instance where I work). Why the client (who works in e-commerce) didn't think it odd to wire $47k to a florist in Indiana is beyond me ¯_(ツ)_/¯. But our company had to do a full forensic audit (and that took time). The FBI was involved.

I'm assuming the FBI will be involved in this much bigger hack, too.

Other towns affected:

• Pownal
• Arlington
• Shaftsbury
• Manchester
• Dorset
• Pawlet

- When turning left at a light, they sit at the green light until they can go rather than pulling up slightly to the let the car behind them go straight
- When turning left and looking at a line of cars coming from the other direction turning left, they let the entire line turn left before they themselves turn left.

I’m from the mid Atlantic. I’ve traded in a life of an endless amount of death defying stunts on the roads to an endless amount of Sunday drivers. I have to constantly remind myself it’s a good trade as I white knuckle the wheel.

Subaru is a company running solely on their reputation (from the 1990s).

My first car was a 2018 Impreza hatchback. 5 recalls in 4 years. 1 was for an entertainment system not available to my base model, 4 others were significant safety recalls (faulty rubber brake hoses, faulty ECM, a PCV made of such shit material it was liable to be sucked into the engine, killing it, and faulty headlights).

The headlight recall - recall #5 - was the last straw for me.

"No remedy yet available," the NHSTA recall read. Which Subaru fought.

Why? Because laziness. The headlight molds were meant to house LED bulbs. Cheap fuckers didn't consider popping a halogen in would diminish efficacy dramatically.

I commute 350 miles every week on an elevated access highway in Vermont and people couldn't see me. Terrifying.

Plus an undiagnosable driver's front brake problem and a confirmed powertrain failure code. Dumped it before I ran out of warranty.

Corporate said they'd rather wait for a wrongful death lawsuit than fix the damn car.

That’s how my 2016 Impreza was.

I see them around the Monkton, Bristol area constantly.

It's not a new thing. Bad traffic has been around forever. I could go on and on about the crazy shit I've seen drivers do, both Vermont and non-Vermont on our roads.

Sorry, I'm not trying to shit on you. I just had to have my morning coffee. ;)

I’m only glad I’m not alone. I commute at night and have to take 116 north from Middlebury and I am constantly being blinded. Being tired because it’s my morning only makes it worst. And then lately a bunch of people have been installing these light bars on their vehicles and I sometimes have to pull over because of the intensity and let my eyes readjust.

Yep, this is me. Open roads, open throttle

I commute at night and it’s honestly infuriating. I would take a high beam any night over a light bar though. It makes my blood boil. There are a few trucks in the Addison county area using them as high beams. Then, on Wednesday night while commuting north on Silver st., about mile from Hinesburg, a truck drove the opposite direction then turned on a light bar that was on the BACK of his truck when he went by. These people are the scum of the earth.

As someone with an astigmatism I can tell you that the struggle is real for sure. Add in some side ways snow/sleet and make the road lines dissappear with bad weather and then get blinded is a quick recipe for a bad time