Drive through my town and you’ll see plenty of barns in good order that are no longer in use. When I was a kid on my family farm there were 15+ dairy farms in my area. Now we are down to one dairy farm, 2 beef operations and another dairy farm that uses all their product to make cheese in just the span of 30 years.

My gf and I booked an airbnb yurt in this area for this weekend, are we gonna die as popsicles? Any advice?

I just feel like animals like city squirrels, city raccoons, pigeons, etc. are already adapted to humans and depend on them for food to some degree. Whereas w/ bears and wolves, etc, we try very hard to avoid that. I could be completely wrong. I do leave nuts outside for squirrels sometimes but I live in urban VT. seemed like a bird feeder to me. I put water out on hot days, they seem to like that. Again, could totally be wrong.

If your chickadees and tufted tits are this cold you should consider increasing the oil content in your seed mix to give them extra calories just to keep up with their increased metabolic needs.

Same. My old 2 bedroom costs more than my mortgage+taxes now.

I'll be sure to put chicken wire around my next post. 😏

I’m lucky, bought before rona.

You could buy her two very very very small pairs of Darn Tough socks and help her put them on.

Sounds like Mass thinking u/woburnite

gatekeeping

No toilet paper ?

Im in Island Pond and it's been very cold the passed 2 days!! So not ready for that

Roll my eyes

There should be a discord server for this kinda thing just to keep tabs on each other from the comfort of your home.

Why do they think the barn was built?

Do they know how a farm works?

Are they going to build the farmer a new barn when they repurpose their old barn?

Farming is a complicated, difficult industry that requires extremely resourceful thinking, diversification, preparation and a little bit of storage to make it work.

The offensive part of this post isn't the ignorance of basic housing standards, it's that OP sees a barn in good condition and assumes it's an idle resource.

Yeah. Keep driving, and don't stop at the farm stand, butcher, co-op or country store.

Ya'll have food at home.

This always makes me laugh…. What’re you gonna do with it? Make some no-power French toast? 😂

Umm… the average low temp for St J. in January is 9 degrees. For the same month in BTV is 11.8

A month below -10 would be among the coldest months in recorded weather history.

Slayer is awful, should never be included in the big 4.

Opening your sink cabinets is something I was always taught

Yeah this is one of the real concerns about tomorrow night. Despite the fact a lot of people are saying wind chill isnt real and this is a nothing burger. The wind doesn't necessarily care. When its really windy and cold it will kill you faster than just cold and there are plenty of people without shelter.

https://vem.vermont.gov/news/shelters

It does look like the state is trying to do something this weekend to help. I do urge people without heat or shelter to call 211.

Folks can call 211 or visit their website for warning locations and shelters. Royalton’s will be open

Or perhaps if you're desperate to be relevant and be portrayed as knowledgeable, as a pillar of your community, and to have your fingers in all kinds of pies. See link to one of my previous comments above.

I remember a friend saying they saw them in Burlington and it would have been after 88.

I brought my son to see them in 2019 to bridge the generation gap. Father and son in a mosh pit as raining blood starts.

The best concert of my life.

Wait til you try renting.

I grew up in the NEK and then went to UVM. All the freshmen there were whining about the weather and meanwhile I'm thinking "I just got off the phone with my parents and it's 10 degrees warmer here".