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Enough snow to open blue 100%? Is the valley even open yet? Trying to clear work schedule to get to the catskills Thursday but seems unlikely. Maybe friday.

Hope so - but Cuomo is pretty militant. With good reason. Just hope he keeps skiing open.

Huh. I guess I'm old.

No thread on the coming storm?

Skied Belleayre saturday and sunday. Mask compliance was high. No issues riding the lift alone since I was solo. But it was empty as they were only open for pass holders. We'll see how it is net week with a crowd. Heard DeBlasio on CNN this AM talking about total shut downs coming. Hope he was only referring to NYC.

"The city showed out for us...." Is that like a local dialect thing? Showed out? Is that a phrase? Also, that is a big bowl of Covid right there. This is why the whole fucking state is gonna get locked down again. Idiots.

It's also interesting that they are going to a 4 and 8 hour system. I guess the thought is, 4 hour skiers won't need the lodge. Which makes sense I think. Lots of challenge this year for sure. Hope it works out. But $109? I just plugged in a non-holiday saturday for Stowe....$109.

$79 bucks for 4 hours....yikes. I hope they get it. But I think Blue's core weekend customer might have a little sticker shock at that. But maybe that's the plan? Limit ticket sales by raising the price? Find a nice equilibrium without having to have a reservation system?

I run a residential design/build firm specializing in kitchens and bathrooms.

I have to go in a few days a week for payroll and paper work. And our business requires client interaction at both their homes and our showroom. And we're a paper-intensive business, so setting up at home meant bringing a lot of files to my basement. After things improved and we got very busy again, I just moved everything back tot he showroom and have been in 90% of the days. So I'll have to come up with a plan to bring what I need home again etc.... Just a bit of a hassle to work out of two desks.

I'm thinking of going back to WFH a few days a weeks. PA is really going crazy.

starting to wonder if there will be a season. Between the weather and covid....

Fucking hell. I bet 25% of the attendees are positive.

I'd explain I'll easily drink as much as two normal customers.....

I'd be a no, because infecting low risk people leads to infecting high risk people.....

this sucks.

A member of my staff tested positive. He had contact with 75% of our field crew. Had to shut down for two weeks. Though of course, no one officially notified us. We were just being cautious and careful for the sake of our team, families and community. Office is in Bucks. CVS told another that they are seeing tons of positives under 25 lately.

That is really what should happen.

When we say we're gonna be masked, are we saying a real mask, like the cloth or medical masks we're all wearing now, or are we saying a ski mask? I don't think ski masks are as effective. Most have breath holes in them. How will people respond when people they are riding with whip their masks off after the chair leaves the terminal? Because you know that's gonna happen.

years ago when our kids were little we went to bear creek on a holiday weekend. shortly after we got through the rental line, they ran out of skis to rent.... never sen such a mass of humanity as I saw in that rental building.....

thanks guys. She ended up going to the AT at the water gap for a night. Her water spot was bunk, but otherwise she had a nice two days. I suspect it's much more scenic than the blue section.

Sorry for your loss.

Nah...there are a lot of things big cities offer that other areas don't. I couldn't ever live in one, but I do understand why people do.

The town I live in is seeing a huge real estate spike. We're popular for NYC folk because we are on the train line and are a nice town. I have many friends in real estate and they have told me the number one reason people are moving out of the city is because their companies have told them working from home will be a major part of the future, no matter what happens with Covid. Now, you can't draw any conclusions from this anecdote because my town is fairly affluent. The people moving here most likely live in the affluent sections of NYC, where violence isn't really an issue. I will add another anecdote - a close friend who live sin Brooklyn had no idea at all what his mother was talking about when she feverishly asked him if he was safe from all the riots. He wasn't aware there were any.

Just gonna point out that that is the exact goal of the 'fake news', 'Lame Stream Media' gas lighting. Just say over and over again that all news sources (except of course the one you are watching or listening to) are wrong, corrupt, lying, working for the democrats.....until people just start accepting it, and then suddenly there is an easy excuse as to why a journalist is pointing out your failings....they are lying! You can't believe them! And suddenly, you have no 'credible' source holding you accountable. In the case of right wing media, who have been perpetrating this gaslighting for decades, they just want people not to trust anyone but this to drive ratings. And it really works.