Dr Burton - Burton family dental on mineral spring ave. She also has an office on s main downtown but parking is better in NP. Her staff is great. She’s done a bunch of replacing 1980s era fillings for me and crowns and her staff is lovely. And I’m a dentist hater by design.

(Raises hand.). Not these ones obvio. But also am old enough to have had a truckload of tinsel on the trees so maybe it’s a 70s thing.

I’m not talking about daytime parking. Overnight parking / go ahead. Call PVD. If there was ticketing just happening, the 3-5 cars that park on our no overnight street would get ticketed at least semi regularly. They don’t. Still waiting for you to call the Pd tho…. I mean they are basically saying they can’t be bothered enforcing the law why would they lie about that? It makes the street residents happy because the no overnight rule is stupid anyway.

Oh puleeze. I’ve had a conversation with the police - on the phone - personally so I’m quoting. And yes I’ve lived here long enough too. You don’t want to believe me call the non emergency number right now and say hey / my neighbor is parking outside my house and it’s a no overnight zone can you give them a ticket? And see what they say. It’s ok we’ll wait…….

But they won’t ticket unless you call the providence police number. This is direct quote from the providence police supervisor - unless you call PPD between 1-5am - no one is going to ticket a car. They aren’t driving around all night looking for ticketing oops. It’s purely a dispatched only situation.

Yeah it’s called Massachusetts. So a bit of a deceptive figure. I mean it includes Boston but also Newport Creamery and Target in Seekonk. Or anyone working in the other direction (New London etc).

Oh if considering solar - absolutely do it. We haven’t had a bill since installation (2016). Totally worth it.

Checking out solar like installing solar? Or picking a solar provider? Picking s solar provider won’t be cheaper but better karma.

Go to aaa?

Basically yes.

Yes it’s the PVD police non emergency number. It’s in their google listing.

Nope / it’s cops. That’s why they won’t ticket unless there’s a complaint (vs regular walking the beat meter maids).

On east side - it’s not heavily enforced actually. Only if someone gets on the phone ……. Otherwise zero enforcement (and this is directly from the police themselves when we had someone block our garbage cans for a month. Don’t get me started on why they can’t get to the garbage cans with cars parked like every other city can……)

Parking actually only gets ticketed in the neighborhood (per a chat with the police desk) if someone actually calls and complains about - between 1am and 5am. You can’t call outside of those hours to complain about overnighting - they won’t bother. Which leads me to view this as an ill thought out half Oakes money grab rather than any concern with quality of life either way. Someone called the cops that’s why you got a ticket.

As in they aim to have zero….. oh wait. It’s Smithfield.

We did it several years ago and since we had (non working bht still present knob and tube) we couldn’t get the insulation and the rest of the stuff they did at the end of the day re air flow didn’t make a difference (whatever they tested using scientific instruments didn’t change). So we have a basement with lots of weird insulation (the foam stuff) piped in places that apparently doesn’t do anything. So find out if you have any knob and tube anywhere inside and don’t bother if it does until you get it removed.

We took a loan out for it and it was less than our elec bill. We paid it off in two years. But even without that the knowledge that our power was coming from solar only was a huge weight off our shoulders (and pocket book as rates just continues to rise) so while it wasn’t “free” from day one using those standards still 100% worth it. And systems have gotten cheaper and the solar credit from the feds went up to 30% (was 26 when we bought I think) so it’s even cheaper. And battery storage is likewise cheaper now - not to mention RIE will pay you to use your battery (we’re getting our battery this winter) and that basically pays for itself over the next 3-4 years. Very few people in the city that I know had to actually remove any trees (which may speak more to there being a shortage of trees in PVd than anything!) - have 15 neighbors who have gone solar since we did and no one had to do that. I think folks get intimidated by thinking they need a huge chunk of money and they have to finance ergo don’t make it happen. But it’s just renaming your rising electric bill for a fixed payment (and there’s a lot more financing options now than there were in 2016) and it’s still coming out of your wallet if you don’t make the shift so why not? You won’t actually be saving any money if you don’t do it.

You’re already paying the money. We paid a dollar less per month for those costs until we paid it off so literally was already saving money from day 1. “Breaking even” isn’t the mentality here. Paying in a certain (ever rising) amount to RIE is baked in unless you go solar. You’ll break even at current rates even sooner than we did if that’s your concern.

This! Folks think by not going solar they’ll save money / no you’ll be sending the same amount or more to an energy company. It’s been amazing for us. Going on 6+ years without a bill!

They had a fire. I assume the mobile home is provided by home owners insurance - ditto the bills that come along with it.

Will insurance pay for that? Also fuck RI energy for sure. I’m sorry to hear about your house - hope your fam is ok.

It’s not huge so I wouldn’t Chuck a display in there but phones and smaller stuff for sure.

You win the internet today.

Rochambeau library has a (small) e waste collection bin by the bathrooms on the main level. You can also call waste management to do an e waste pickup / but ditto re taking care of your data!

I’m sorry your daughter is sick! Sending healing vibes to your family! Hope she has a wonderful birthday. Also eventide in Wellfleet has a big pool and in the off season it’s usually pretty empty! And their rooms are (relatively) cheap. It’s a hike but Wellfleet is lovely.