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replace "fishing" with "hiking" and your all-caps paragraph has been said about 10,000 times in the White Mountain National Forest subreddit

people don't listen there, either

I must admit that I assumed running lights did light up the equivalent of running lines in the back.

My excuse: I use my headlights virtually always; never just running lights.

Ouch.

Ask around anyway - it's your only real option for changing things. You can always go to the state senator's office, too.

Talk to your select board and your state representative - they're the ones who can change regulations. Dealing with local goernment and bureaucrats and regulations is a pain in the butt but that's the way to change things.

tl;dr - Other places create lots of pollution so we shouldn't bother to reduce our pollution because it's difficult and expensive.

what do you do with ashes?

On my local lake I wait for the ice fisherfolk to go out and auger some holes. They mess up the ice but theyre the best certainty around.

"based on" means exaggerated, changed, tweaked at the writer's whim. it's not a report it's an entertainment, using somebody's pain and horror for entertainment.

You don't need to read it. Try one of the gazillion other books out there waiting for you!

I kept mine in the cupboard for years without any problem but one year strange yellow stuff grew on the surface, so now we keep it in the fridge. It depends on how quickly you use it up; if it's gone within a couple of months, non-fridge is OK.

It's getting unusual that a state with Maine's population has two sort-of-statewide newspapers of such relatively high quality. Many states are lucky to have one and some really don't have any.

I hope all the people responding are active politically (yeah, I know, yuck - but it's important) to get their state representatives and state senator to create state support of solar.

Much of the NH GOP is anti-renewable for whatever reason, so we need aggressive pro-renewable action from voters. Solar is "local control" so the NH GOP should be in favor of it.

I thought I had seen all of them but I missed that one.

She had a few klunkers, especially early (The Big Four) and late (Elephants can Remember) in her career, but most of them are cracking good yarns, as they say.

My two favorites: The Mirror Crack'd and Crooked House

If nobody responds you can wing it. Monadnock is so heavily hiked that you could just ask people in the parking lot; I wouldn't be at all surprised if you find somebody or some group happy to let you come along. It's a common hike for beginners, so they won't be surprised.

Part of the improvement is smarter switches. It used to be that if the power went out due to a tree/branch on a line you had to wait for a crew to come out and fix it. Now in many cases, switches automatically reroute power via other lines and you get back on quickly.

My power flickered off for a few seconds at least 10 times, probably more, on Monday. Annoying because it reset the internet router each time, but way better than losing power for hours at a time.

Thanks - I knew I was getting details wrong.

Chasing off the road agent! That isn't messing around.

While penny-pinching utilities who don't want to spend money on maintenance are much of the problem, we residents have to take some of the blame - any time there's tree-trimming around lines people complain bitterly about it.

There was a court case 25+ years ago when a guy - I believe it was one of the founders of Sanders Associates but I might be remembering that wrong - chased away a tree crew with a chainsaw because he didn't want them cutting trees along the road in front of his property.

I would say the biggest difference is how quickly you can get to a mid-sized city - a place with a decent hospital and good variety of shopping alternatives. Otherwise the climate / social attitudes / roads, buildings etc. are pretty similar.

Using that measure, there's no state-vs-state difference, but plenty of difference within the rural areas of each state.

Conspiracy theories are fun but you must have never lived in a state without inspections. Sharing the road with a ton of polluting wrecks gets old, fast.

Wow, the post has been up 4 minutes already and we haven't had a single response saying "I saw one in <some New England location> - I know what I saw, Fish & Wildlife is denying it because of <some weird conspiracy> and there was that one hit by a car in Connecticut so I must be right!"

Such self-restraint by redditors!

ah, the old "I like a thing, therefore it requires extra smartness" argument - very persuasive.

HGG was his one-hit wonder, really - definitely don't try the Dirk Gentley detective books, ugh

Perhaps because they regard that as the safe and intelligent way to behave at that particular time and that particular place instead of automatically doing whatever the signs tell them is proper.

Folks there won't have anything to do with the flatlanders from Lower Kidderville