BIW is definitely a target in a high use scenario. Portland was already leaked as a Chinese countervalue target because it is easy to hit over the poles. They aim to hit at least one city in each state.

This saying only makes logical sense if the weather pattern is generally clouds moving west to east. So that might not really describe England the way it does the eastern US.

Exactly. Being vaporized is far preferable to starvation or living in the theocracy that would replace the US government.

It might be a good start in some places, but only a start and not remotely a solution. We would have a housing crisis anyway.

Lots of ice fishermen and skaters out. Lower Ossipee Pond was fine, as was Middle Range Pond. These are quite far apart, so most ponds should be fine at this point for foot traffic. A small pond I visited on Sunday in Hebron had like 8 inches of ice and snowmobiles driving on it.

Just stick to where you see other fishermen and if it is much above freezing, get off the ice by early afternoon.

Most people forget that that the night is twice as long as the day. So just because your phone says it's a high of 38 degrees doesn't mean it's a no-go. You can also attach a large nail to a heavy broom handle and make your own testing pole.

The owner sometimes rows peoples' ashes out to sea, I believe

Because Maine's only nuclear plant was shut down and not replaced. Then gas prices went through the roof.

Just reach up to knock away a foot of snow at the bottom of the roof. That will encourage the other slabs to slide off and help prevent ice dams.

Well maybe they're not getting away but getting to.

You just have to drive a long-ass way to get there. Same as many of the normal people who had them way back when.

No, meat chickens are a totally different species from laying chickens. About as different as chihuahuas and dobermans. They're mutants, really. Congenitally obese and die of heart attacks if you don't eat them.

But chicken meat prices have actually declined since September

We don't eat egg chickens

Just make sure it's responsible and sustainable development. Ban suburbia. You can fit a lot of people in that way, without ruining the entire landscape.

I work from home with 4G sometimes, no problem

1300 Sq ft with gas for heating, cooking and hot water. Last bill was $66.00, although it was down in the 30s a year ago before natural gas prices went insane. Bring back Maine Yankee, please.

From the rocks at Two Lights State Park for stripers. Look for the little cove just west of the park boundary.

Around Bethel there was still plenty of thick ice. Getting a bit dicey though, and ideally people would have proper testing equipment with them and think hard about the risks.

Beachfront property owners learning what flood insurance costs after last week's storm

Man, just look 30 minutes away in New Hampshire. Strip malls in mountain valleys.

You can find lots of ice that thick much farther south, but there is a serious thaw underway. And it's a big deep lake. Conditions could be wildly different in different parts of it.

Except the legislature could yank back your net metering deal next Thursday if they want.

Which is honestly far more likely to happen than some out of state company exposing itself to massive class action lawsuits by breaching contracts with its customers.

> If you don't own the array, on your own property, I wouldn't sign a contract with terms greater than 12 months. A lot of these huge ground mounts are being installed by out-of-state companies that have no permanent investment in Maine.

What does this even mean? Do you think they are going to rip out the panels and take them to New Jersey?

Honestly a lot of Oxford County and thereabouts is developing that kind of disgusting suburban sprawl in the rural areas. All the state routes are filling up with eyesores.

We have less sprawl than the rest of the country, but not because we have learned from their mistakes. Much the reverse, we are trying hard to catch up to them.

Under the current economic system we need constant population and economic growth. Either that, or cut all government benefits for the elderly to the bone, and government debt along with it. Or full-on socialism. Not much middle ground.

If it sounds like a destructive ponzi scheme, it is. But believe me, the status quo is easier and kinder in the short term.