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[Sans Souci]

Hello-

Today was a rest day, but I did go out for a stroll.

I had an enjoyable meal last night. The weather was perfect for dining al fresco. It was our last meal at a restaurant until we feel it's safe to dine indoors again. This restaurant did a really good job with creating an inviting outdoor dining space in the parking lot.

I made vegetarian quesadillas for dinner tonight. They were so good. I made a big batch to freeze for lunches or dinners.

 

[Songbird76]

I question the wisdom of not making children wear masks and having them sit together shoulder to shoulder.

My nephew in the UK has to quarantine for two weeks because his teacher tested positive. I don't know what the answer is, but I don't think it's fair to place that kind of stress onto the parents. Because you know if one of your children gets this, at least one other person in the house will likely get this. The region where my MIL and SIL live is popping again, so they are going on a pretty severe lockdown.

Oh believe me, I think it's ridiculous to have the kids packed in like sardines and not require masks. But we don't really have a choice. There is no online option. Not all the teachers are offering online instruction, so if they don't come to school, they have to do those classes blind. So for now, this is what we've got. The public is screaming for stricter regulations and the government doesn't want to be the bad guy who makes masks mandatory or orders a shutdown, so they just tell people to make the safe decision themselves, but there are a bunch of people who won't. So those of us who do are still at risk from those who don't.

 

[Sans Souci]

Oh believe me, I think it's ridiculous to have the kids packed in like sardines and not require masks. But we don't really have a choice. There is no online option. Not all the teachers are offering online instruction, so if they don't come to school, they have to do those classes blind. So for now, this is what we've got. The public is screaming for stricter regulations and the government doesn't want to be the bad guy who makes masks mandatory or orders a shutdown, so they just tell people to make the safe decision themselves, but there are a bunch of people who won't. So those of us who do are still at risk from those who don't.

Oh, yeah, I wasn't saying you were making this choice. Controversial opinion: I don't think society can rely upon expecting doing people the right thing when it comes to mitigating this. There are people here who think masks don't work. There was someone who joined this site back in the Spring and she only posted in the Coronavirus thread up in News and Rumors. She was adamant that masks do not work. Thanks, but I'll take my medical advice from people who study infectious diseases for a living over some rando who joined a website to disseminate erroneous information. I had to stop reading that thread, because I swear, it had a bunch of new accounts pushing incorrect info. Shady.

 

[Sans Souci]

Good morning--

I did my leg workout this AM. I'd like to get out for a walk, but we're getting hit with Delta remnants all day.

I forgot my husband had the day off and when I saw he was in bed and it was nearly time for him to log in for work, I woke him up. He said, "You do know I have the day off, right?" Oops. I forgot, because I could hear my son listening to his lecture, so he doesn't have the day off.

I signed up to be a NWS storm spotter in my area. The class is tomorrow night. I hope I don't have to my camera on for it, but it should be interesting, nonetheless. I'd been wanting to do it, but before they went online with the classes, you'd have to drive down to Delaware to attend. Now, I can do it from the comfort of my couch.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

Good morning--

I did my leg workout this AM. I'd like to get out for a walk, but we're getting hit with Delta remnants all day.

I forgot my husband had the day off and when I saw he was in bed and it was nearly time for him to log in for work, I woke him up. He said, "You do know I have the day off, right?" Oops. I forgot, because I could hear my son listening to his lecture, so he doesn't have the day off.

I signed up to be a NWS storm spotter in my area. The class is tomorrow night. I hope I don't have to my camera on for it, but it should be interesting, nonetheless. I'd been wanting to do it, but before they went online with the classes, you'd have to drive down to Delaware to attend. Now, I can do it from the comfort of my couch.

The storm spotter sounds fun! While my dad made his career with his engineering degrees, he also fostered one of his hobbies and got meteorology degrees along with them. I guess there was a brief time in the early days where he was contemplating being a weatherman and researcher instead. It's part of why I have such strong reactions to weather events...and why I lose it when people refer to sleet and freezing rain as hail. I'm curious to hear what all is part of the class!

Hopefully, the leftovers of Delta aren't too bad. We had showers from it both Thursday and Friday along with some decent wind gusts on Friday, but we were thankfully on the clean side at the time of landfall.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

Our school sends us an email any time someone in the school tests positive, and they send separate emails to anyone who had close contact with the infected person. The problem is, over here, kids don't have to distance from each other, only from adults, and they aren't requiring masks. So 80% of the kids aren't wearing masks at all, and they are packed in like sardines. The entire school has breaks at the same time, 10:00 and 12:50, and there are 1500 students. They have 2 areas inside for breaks, and those 2 areas are small...one is about a classroom and a half in size, and the other is like a small auditorium. That's it. So the kids are really packed in there. They are encouraged to go outside for breaks, but it was rainy all week, so they couldn't. Her class has 19 students in it, and she said they were all sitting together, shoulder to shoulder, to play this game, so they were all in close proximity to the girl. And the rule is that if you have symptoms, you stay home, but you're not supposed to get tested unless you have symptoms because the testing locations are already overwhelmed. When I called a couple of weeks ago because E had a sore throat and cough, they told me it would be at least 5 days before they could get her a slot at a testing site. So how did this girl get tested yesterday if she wasn't having symptoms for several days? And if she WAS having symptoms, why was she at school? This is what I don't understand. If she's positive, I don't know what they'll do....they are supposed to have 6 tests this week in various classes, but they can't do them if the entire class is in quarantine. It's such a mess!!

If only they could mandate masks. I know there are people who are angrily opposed to it for one reason or another, but I look at our local numbers and it makes it look to me like it's proof that they work. The chart below tracks positive tests in our area, beginning in April. While it has its ups and downs and doesn't account for backlogs and delays, you can see the rise in June as we reopened and you can see us slowly come back down after masks were mandated in July. I don't think anyone enjoys wearing them, but I think it makes a difference and it would make it easier for kids to go back to school. Even if they had them crammed in like sardines, surely masks would help reduce a chunk of the risk.



That's crazy that it's 5 days before they could get her in for testing. Symptoms and staying home has been a big topic of discussion lately, since so many symptoms can be tied to other non-Covid things. With the number of people who have environmental allergies and/or regular gastrointestinal issues, the vast majority of people would be staying home if they adhered to those policies. My older one had to go to the pediatrician last week for her annual exam and a nurse called with a Covid related questionnaire. When she got to the symptoms, I had to ask her about this, because there was a lot of crossover with our seasonal allergies and it turned out all of that was OK. Praying it gets better for you guys.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

If only they could mandate masks. I know there are people who are angrily opposed to it for one reason or another, but I look at our local numbers and it makes it look to me like it's proof that they work. The chart below tracks positive tests in our area, beginning in April. While it has its ups and downs and doesn't account for backlogs and delays, you can see the rise in June as we reopened and you can see us slowly come back down after masks were mandated in July. I don't think anyone enjoys wearing them, but I think it makes a difference and it would make it easier for kids to go back to school. Even if they had them crammed in like sardines, surely masks would help reduce a chunk of the risk.

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That's crazy that it's 5 days before they could get her in for testing. Symptoms and staying home has been a big topic of discussion lately, since so many symptoms can be tied to other non-Covid things. With the number of people who have environmental allergies and/or regular gastrointestinal issues, the vast majority of people would be staying home if they adhered to those policies. My older one had to go to the pediatrician last week for her annual exam and a nurse called with a Covid related questionnaire. When she got to the symptoms, I had to ask her about this, because there was a lot of crossover with our seasonal allergies and it turned out all of that was OK. Praying it gets better for you guys.

And see, we always had a mask mandate. Ours came out in February. We never had spikes and pretty much no one whines about it.

 

[Songbird76]

Oh, yeah, I wasn't saying you were making this choice. Controversial opinion: I don't think society can rely upon expecting doing people the right thing when it comes to mitigating this. There are people here who think masks don't work. There was someone who joined this site back in the Spring and she only posted in the Coronavirus thread up in News and Rumors. She was adamant that masks do not work. Thanks, but I'll take my medical advice from people who study infectious diseases for a living over some rando who joined a website to disseminate erroneous information. I had to stop reading that thread, because I swear, it had a bunch of new accounts pushing incorrect info. Shady.

I agree with you! One of my daughter's best friends has been ridiculing her for wearing a mask. E is one of the very few kids who wears a mask at school, and she is one of 2 who wears it all day. She rides her bike with 2 of her best friends who both live a block over....she got to their street and the one girl says "You know wearing a mask is really bad for you, right?" and she didn't feel like arguing, so she just said "Yep." and let it go. Then a few teachers tackled the myths like they don't work, they are bad for your health, etc. The girl still won't wear one, though. But yeah, I agree....I think the thing is that so many people won't do more than they have to. Like...if the store says they have to wear a mask, they will, because they know it helps, but they won't do it if the store doesn't make it mandatory. And that's with any rules....think about driving. If there were no speed limits, how many people would drive the "suggested" speed? or stop at stop signs? or wear seatbelts? There are people who break those laws even now. Or text while driving. There are going to be people who won't follow the rules, so you may as well make the rule so that those who WILL do it as long as it's a rule are covered. Just my two cents. But yeah, I'm following the advice of the experts. I wear a mask to the grocery store, etc.

They are cracking down tonight though...the ministers met yesterday to discuss and there is a press conference tonight to announce the new measures, but according to the news this morning, we're looking at basically another lockdown with the exception of schools. No more amateur sports for over 18s, restaurants and bars all shut down, no alcohol sales in stores after 8pm, no more than 4 people getting together outside the house, which I THINK will mean no choir....between the no amateur sports and no more than 4 people, I think that means no clubs or organizations, everyone must work from home except essential workers. I don't know why they aren't shutting down schools. Now that it's getting colder, it would be easier for kids to stay home. In the spring, they had a problem with teenagers because the weather was nice and the kids wouldn't stay home. But now that the weather is colder and pretty rainy, it won't be such a temptation for kids to get out of the house. I guess we'll see what they say, and see what teachers do...if they are in high risk groups, they may protest schools being open. The last year has been rife with teacher strikes because they feel taken advantage of and unappreciated...this is another instance where they're expected to go above and beyond what everyone else has to do...put themselves at risk and disregard their own safety while everyone else is ordered to work from home. It will be interesting to see if they just refuse to come to work or how they handle it.

 

[Songbird76]

If only they could mandate masks. I know there are people who are angrily opposed to it for one reason or another, but I look at our local numbers and it makes it look to me like it's proof that they work. The chart below tracks positive tests in our area, beginning in April. While it has its ups and downs and doesn't account for backlogs and delays, you can see the rise in June as we reopened and you can see us slowly come back down after masks were mandated in July. I don't think anyone enjoys wearing them, but I think it makes a difference and it would make it easier for kids to go back to school. Even if they had them crammed in like sardines, surely masks would help reduce a chunk of the risk.

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That's crazy that it's 5 days before they could get her in for testing. Symptoms and staying home has been a big topic of discussion lately, since so many symptoms can be tied to other non-Covid things. With the number of people who have environmental allergies and/or regular gastrointestinal issues, the vast majority of people would be staying home if they adhered to those policies. My older one had to go to the pediatrician last week for her annual exam and a nurse called with a Covid related questionnaire. When she got to the symptoms, I had to ask her about this, because there was a lot of crossover with our seasonal allergies and it turned out all of that was OK. Praying it gets better for you guys.

Well we ended up not getting her tested...it just wasn't worth it to wait so long. And that was with testing ONLY if you had symptoms. You couldn't just get a test because you wanted to rule out being an asymptomatic carrier. But the testing sites were so overwhelmed that it took days before you could make an appointment. I called that thursday morning and had to call back every half hour until the afternoon because the line was so busy they couldn't handle the call volume. When I finally got through in the afternoon, I had to wait half an hour before someone could actually take the call. So she advised me, since E didn't have a fever, not to get her tested because with the wait time, if it was just a cold, she might be better already by the time the appointment rolled around, and then the test was unnecessary. And then you have to wait 2-3 days for the results. And none of us would be allowed to go to work or school if she was waiting on test results, whearas, we could all go except her as long as she had no fever. So it was better to let her miss school and we could at least go to work and A could go to school. Some of the regulations don't make much sense.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

And see, we always had a mask mandate. Ours came out in February. We never had spikes and pretty much no one whines about it.

I know they were trying to protect PPE supplies, but I have to wonder how much better this could have been if mask mandates went in early all over. It seems that the countries that are accustomed to masking up and did so early fared much better. There are a lot of people here who whine and refuse and most places (outside of schools and 'most' medical facilities) no longer do much to enforce it, even though they're still supposedly mandatory. We started wearing them in late March/early April and I'd started looking into them in February, but at this point...it is what it is.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I know they were trying to protect PPE supplies, but I have to wonder how much better this could have been if mask mandates went in early all over. It seems that the countries that are accustomed to masking up and did so early fared much better. There are a lot of people here who whine and refuse and most places (outside of schools and 'most' medical facilities) no longer do much to enforce it, even though they're still supposedly mandatory. We started wearing them in late March/early April and I'd started looking into them in February, but at this point...it is what it is.

Ours was just some sort of face covering...so at the beginning, the government was telling people that even if you wore a scarf over your face, that was fine. So people started making homemade ones and such. The first day I left my house to go somewhere (liquor store... because those were essential businesses ) I just pulled a scarf over my face. Then we just kind of got used to wearing cloth ones. We never had huge spikes here. We're still holding around 2.75%. My friend who lives out in the middle of nowhere said some people out there are resistant, but where I live in the more urban areas, we just wear them and don't whine. There was actually a guy who said something about it on the governor's Facebook page and got epically trolled for whining.

 

[Sans Souci]

The storm spotter sounds fun! While my dad made his career with his engineering degrees, he also fostered one of his hobbies and got meteorology degrees along with them. I guess there was a brief time in the early days where he was contemplating being a weatherman and researcher instead. It's part of why I have such strong reactions to weather events...and why I lose it when people refer to sleet and freezing rain as hail. I'm curious to hear what all is part of the class!

Hopefully, the leftovers of Delta aren't too bad. We had showers from it both Thursday and Friday along with some decent wind gusts on Friday, but we were thankfully on the clean side at the time of landfall.

I love studying the weather and I see why so many people make it a hobby.

I am looking forward to the class tonight. I found out we don't need to have our cameras on and all questions will be handled via text, so that means I can do this class in my pajamas.

 

[Sans Souci]

I agree with you! One of my daughter's best friends has been ridiculing her for wearing a mask. E is one of the very few kids who wears a mask at school, and she is one of 2 who wears it all day. She rides her bike with 2 of her best friends who both live a block over....she got to their street and the one girl says "You know wearing a mask is really bad for you, right?" and she didn't feel like arguing, so she just said "Yep." and let it go. Then a few teachers tackled the myths like they don't work, they are bad for your health, etc. The girl still won't wear one, though. But yeah, I agree....I think the thing is that so many people won't do more than they have to. Like...if the store says they have to wear a mask, they will, because they know it helps, but they won't do it if the store doesn't make it mandatory. And that's with any rules....think about driving. If there were no speed limits, how many people would drive the "suggested" speed? or stop at stop signs? or wear seatbelts? There are people who break those laws even now. Or text while driving. There are going to be people who won't follow the rules, so you may as well make the rule so that those who WILL do it as long as it's a rule are covered. Just my two cents. But yeah, I'm following the advice of the experts. I wear a mask to the grocery store, etc.

They are cracking down tonight though...the ministers met yesterday to discuss and there is a press conference tonight to announce the new measures, but according to the news this morning, we're looking at basically another lockdown with the exception of schools. No more amateur sports for over 18s, restaurants and bars all shut down, no alcohol sales in stores after 8pm, no more than 4 people getting together outside the house, which I THINK will mean no choir....between the no amateur sports and no more than 4 people, I think that means no clubs or organizations, everyone must work from home except essential workers. I don't know why they aren't shutting down schools. Now that it's getting colder, it would be easier for kids to stay home. In the spring, they had a problem with teenagers because the weather was nice and the kids wouldn't stay home. But now that the weather is colder and pretty rainy, it won't be such a temptation for kids to get out of the house. I guess we'll see what they say, and see what teachers do...if they are in high risk groups, they may protest schools being open. The last year has been rife with teacher strikes because they feel taken advantage of and unappreciated...this is another instance where they're expected to go above and beyond what everyone else has to do...put themselves at risk and disregard their own safety while everyone else is ordered to work from home. It will be interesting to see if they just refuse to come to work or how they handle it.

That is clever that your daughter didn't engage that girl who claimed masks don't work. It's not worth it, just move on. I saw a gentleman on TV last night claim they cause brain damage because you're inhaling carbon dioxide. I mean, OK, but so many medical professionals wear them on a daily basis, OR docs, nurses, techs, dentists, oral surgeons, etc. Are these people functioning with brain damage? Give me a break. I won't even mention some of the bonkers conspiracy theories I've read about people who wear masks v people who refuse.

The school district I live in went completely online for classes. At first, they were going to stagger the amount of students attending per day and the teachers' union pushed back. The teachers show up and teach from their classrooms. I feel badly for parents, because they are in such a double-bind. How do you work from home and make sure your child is paying attention to the teacher. What if you can't work from home? Are you supposed to leave an 8 year old alone all day? I am guessing it's not a field day for the teachers, either. I think they're trying the best they can under the circumstances.

 

[Sans Souci]

If only they could mandate masks. I know there are people who are angrily opposed to it for one reason or another, but I look at our local numbers and it makes it look to me like it's proof that they work. The chart below tracks positive tests in our area, beginning in April. While it has its ups and downs and doesn't account for backlogs and delays, you can see the rise in June as we reopened and you can see us slowly come back down after masks were mandated in July. I don't think anyone enjoys wearing them, but I think it makes a difference and it would make it easier for kids to go back to school. Even if they had them crammed in like sardines, surely masks would help reduce a chunk of the risk.

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That's crazy that it's 5 days before they could get her in for testing. Symptoms and staying home has been a big topic of discussion lately, since so many symptoms can be tied to other non-Covid things. With the number of people who have environmental allergies and/or regular gastrointestinal issues, the vast majority of people would be staying home if they adhered to those policies. My older one had to go to the pediatrician last week for her annual exam and a nurse called with a Covid related questionnaire. When she got to the symptoms, I had to ask her about this, because there was a lot of crossover with our seasonal allergies and it turned out all of that was OK. Praying it gets better for you guys.

I saw a heat map last night and it showed Texas being one of the few states with declining cases, so I'd hazard a guess that following recommended public health advice works. lol

 

[Sans Souci]

Hello-

I did a circuit workout this AM. It was pretty sweaty and I felt good when I was done. I am glad I took a break from yoga. I was no longer enjoying it anymore. Hopefully, I'll come back to it in the future.

I am going to get out for a walk later. Right now, I have a HVAC technician doing an annual check up of my heating situation. He told me the thermostat was struggling to keep up with the furnace. He tried so see what the issue was and now he can't get it working again. It's a lot of money to replace it and it is going to take a few days to get a new one. My power company had a deal on Nest thermostats and I just had one delivered last week. This tech told me it is incompatible with my furnace.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

I love studying the weather and I see why so many people make it a hobby.

I am looking forward to the class tonight. I found out we don't need to have our cameras on and all questions will be handled via text, so that means I can do this class in my pajamas.

Now, I must warn you, if you like it...you may find yourself collecting all kinds of nifty weather gadgets and watching weather all of the time You may find yourself needing a barometer (if you don't already have one) and investing in your own personal home weather station. My dad is so upset that we ditched conventional cable/satellite, because he can't watch The Weather Channel for hours on end during their visits. Also, don't become obsessed with analyzing hail! My parents still have this large old soup pot that my mom used for hail collection one time. We lived in OH for part of the 1970s and happened to be living in the Cincinnati area during the 1974 outbreak, dubbed the day of 100 tornadoes. We were close enough to the F5 that touched down in Sayler Park that my mom was able to collect some baseball to grapefruit sized hail for my father, before seeking shelter. The pot gets used for crab boils these days, but it's still full of dents from the large hail. When I lived with them in FL, my dad once called me from the office and asked me to try and grab some hail samples off of the front porch area with the storm he expected to pass over the house. Good time!

That's good that you don't need the camera on for class. Sounds like a comfy and relaxing experience!

 

[Songbird76]

I know they were trying to protect PPE supplies, but I have to wonder how much better this could have been if mask mandates went in early all over. It seems that the countries that are accustomed to masking up and did so early fared much better. There are a lot of people here who whine and refuse and most places (outside of schools and 'most' medical facilities) no longer do much to enforce it, even though they're still supposedly mandatory. We started wearing them in late March/early April and I'd started looking into them in February, but at this point...it is what it is.

They announced last night that we are doing a partial lockdown for 4 weeks, and checking in in 2 weeks. If the numbers aren't down, we do full lockdown. But stores (except grocery stores) have to close for the evening, no alcohol sales after 8pm, restaurants and bars all closed, and they are working on a face mask rule, but it hasn't been set up yet, no more than 3 guests per day in your home, no more than 4 people together outside, adult sports only up to 4 people at a time and only if you can keep distance, no games/competitions, no audience for anything, so I can't go with A to tennis...still nothing for schools yet, and youth sports can continue training, but no games and parents aren't allowed to stay and watch. I don't see how shutting everything down is going to help if they keep schools open. That doesn't make sense to me. I understand that it's hard to explain to 5 year olds that they can't hug their best friend, or share their lunches, etc...and that little kids have no concept of distancing. But then it makes more sense to shut schools down than it does to exempt them from the rules, which is what they are doing now. Kids under 18 aren't required to distance, schools aren't making face masks mandatory...so they've basically exempted them from the rules, which isn't going to help anything. Because if someone gets it, they bring it home and spread it to their whole family, and all their friends, and possibly also their teachers, who then also bring it home and spread it to their families. But what do I know?

 

[Songbird76]

That is clever that your daughter didn't engage that girl who claimed masks don't work. It's not worth it, just move on. I saw a gentleman on TV last night claim they cause brain damage because you're inhaling carbon dioxide. I mean, OK, but so many medical professionals wear them on a daily basis, OR docs, nurses, techs, dentists, oral surgeons, etc. Are these people functioning with brain damage? Give me a break. I won't even mention some of the bonkers conspiracy theories I've read about people who wear masks v people who refuse.

The school district I live in went completely online for classes. At first, they were going to stagger the amount of students attending per day and the teachers' union pushed back. The teachers show up and teach from their classrooms. I feel badly for parents, because they are in such a double-bind. How do you work from home and make sure your child is paying attention to the teacher. What if you can't work from home? Are you supposed to leave an 8 year old alone all day? I am guessing it's not a field day for the teachers, either. I think they're trying the best they can under the circumstances.

That was exactly what the girl said....you breathe in carbon dioxide, so it's bad for you. And I sai exactly what you did....doctors and dentists wear them all day every day....would they do that if it was dangerous?

Yeah, it's so difficult...I can't work from home, but my husband does for the most part. Sometimes he has to go somewhere to do an energy label, or like the last couple of weeks, he has to place these machines that log air quality or something? Schools are required to meet certain ventilation standards to stay open, and I guess a lot of them can't, so if they want to stay open, they have to open the windows....in the winter. So my husband works for an HVAC advice company, and he takes the measurements and then they give advice about what kind of systems are needed for their building. Right now, a lot of that is him going to a school and putting these log devices in various classes and then picking them up and moving them the next day. Yesterday, he went to pick up the log devices in one school and after school hours, a lot of schools rent out the buildings to clubs or organizations....choirs, extension classes, etc. My husband knocked on a door and he said he was glad he knocked, because it was a sports massage class and there were a bunch of half naked people massaging each other. Other than that, he works from home.

But I can't imagine what parents who can't work from home do with their younger kids. But they have got to do SOMETHING to keep schools from becoming super spreaders.

 

[Sans Souci]

Now, I must warn you, if you like it...you may find yourself collecting all kinds of nifty weather gadgets and watching weather all of the time You may find yourself needing a barometer (if you don't already have one) and investing in your own personal home weather station. My dad is so upset that we ditched conventional cable/satellite, because he can't watch The Weather Channel for hours on end during their visits. Also, don't become obsessed with analyzing hail! My parents still have this large old soup pot that my mom used for hail collection one time. We lived in OH for part of the 1970s and happened to be living in the Cincinnati area during the 1974 outbreak, dubbed the day of 100 tornadoes. We were close enough to the F5 that touched down in Sayler Park that my mom was able to collect some baseball to grapefruit sized hail for my father, before seeking shelter. The pot gets used for crab boils these days, but it's still full of dents from the large hail. When I lived with them in FL, my dad once called me from the office and asked me to try and grab some hail samples off of the front porch area with the storm he expected to pass over the house. Good time!

That's good that you don't need the camera on for class. Sounds like a comfy and relaxing experience!

I don't have any gadgets yet. The presentation was interesting. There were lots of photos of different weather phenomena and basic weather safety that everyone should know, go inside when you hear thunder, don't enter flooded roads, etc.

That's funny about becoming obsessed with hail. They had a list of objects for estimating hail size last night! The guy presenting it went kind of fast, so I have a bunch of incomplete notes, but they are going to upload a presentation on YouTube next month.

F5s are so scary. When I was in HS, an F5 hit 2 towns adjacent to mine. The damage was insane--trees stripped of leaves and even bark, cornfields that were scoured from the tornado plowed through. It destroyed a HS the day before classes were due to start.

I love that your dad got upset with you because you don't get the Weather Channel anymore!

 

[Sans Souci]

That was exactly what the girl said....you breathe in carbon dioxide, so it's bad for you. And I sai exactly what you did....doctors and dentists wear them all day every day....would they do that if it was dangerous?

Yeah, it's so difficult...I can't work from home, but my husband does for the most part. Sometimes he has to go somewhere to do an energy label, or like the last couple of weeks, he has to place these machines that log air quality or something? Schools are required to meet certain ventilation standards to stay open, and I guess a lot of them can't, so if they want to stay open, they have to open the windows....in the winter. So my husband works for an HVAC advice company, and he takes the measurements and then they give advice about what kind of systems are needed for their building. Right now, a lot of that is him going to a school and putting these log devices in various classes and then picking them up and moving them the next day. Yesterday, he went to pick up the log devices in one school and after school hours, a lot of schools rent out the buildings to clubs or organizations....choirs, extension classes, etc. My husband knocked on a door and he said he was glad he knocked, because it was a sports massage class and there were a bunch of half naked people massaging each other. Other than that, he works from home.

But I can't imagine what parents who can't work from home do with their younger kids. But they have got to do SOMETHING to keep schools from becoming super spreaders.

I read an article that there was some push back from teachers about opening windows here b/c there is concern about a potential school shooter using an open window to enter the classrooms. I know at my son's HS, teachers kept the doors locked during class, so that also limits ventilation. I don't know what the remedy is for that.

It's a good thing your husband knocked on the door before entering, because I think I would have had a "WTH?" moment. If I saw a room filled with half naked people massaging each other, I think "sport massage class" wouldn't even in my top 5 ideas of what I was witnessing.