On cypress st.?

Use one of the Boston news station ones. While their temp forecasts on the numbers-only screens generally draw from similar sources, we have a lot of nuance here, especially when it comes to snowfall or where is going to get storms and where won’t that you will want and which the national weather apps don’t provide. Also, the Boston ones take into account proximity to ocean lowering or radiating temperatures and affecting snowfall where the national apps just throw one temperature out for the entire region. (For example, it can easily be 90+ in central MA and 70-75 in Rockport and Gloucester…)

It happens every once in a while. There’s usually a mid-winter “thaw” for a few days before the real shit hits the fan

I’d recommend have a look at this person’s recent experience Before making any decisions to go 100% non-fossil fuel.

Yeah ditto on the down comforter and flannel sheets. They work wonders

Not a chance you’re harvesting my email for this (as the system tried to do).

White mountains from late October or early November onward are a death wish for someone who isn’t a very experienced hiker with appropriate survival gear and beacons. Could you drive up and enjoy the sights and do a couple “nature walks” right off the parking lots? Yes, absolutely, and it would be lovely. But serious hiking? Since it sounds like you’re not local at all, that’s a terrible idea.

I actually quit being an elementary Ed major in college (quite some time ago, when all this junk was the newest shiny object) because I couldn’t reconcile it and couldn’t in good conscience teach kids that way. Since education tends to follow trends as though they’re gospel, not agreeing to work that way was not a choice, so I noped out.

Glad to see things are getting righted (saw some articles earlier this year/ last year-ish to this effect), but damn about 30 years of kids bore the brunt.

Headlight bulbs are like $20 and up for the most part

Yep. Definitely not trekking in subzero kind of mittens, but convenient, warm, commuting or dog-walking mittens for your average northeast winter? Absolutely.

these ones

No joke. Yes it’s a deadhead hippie type store, but they’re hand knit and check ALL the boxes. I have some.

I think that ship left the station from Medford and Somerville quite some time ago already. It’s a concern in general, but for other places these days more than there.

North Reading - better than Reading! here is a cute place in your price range - needs new carpet and some paint but would be a great house

Bradford (neighborhood of Haverhill)

Georgetown (close to Newburyport/Rowley/ipswich/Haverhill stations

North Andover this place looks great

Maaaaaaaybe Rowley

I’m sure those close to the victims are doing that. We who do not k ow anyone involved can take a more clinical and critical look at what the big picture means for these people and how could this be prevented from happening to others (not only the physical act of the car hitting them but also the structural issues that will leave the survivors’ lives in a shambles and possibly advocate for change - change that could help them as well as change that could help others in the future).

OF COURSE we wish them well with their health.

Even with… some of the high deductible or catastrophic-only plans have thousands upon thousands of OOP per year. Given that it’s the end of the year, someone with “mangled limbs and amputations” as they described some will get tucked with thousands times TWO very quickly. Even that is enough to destroy a family, let alone some having an inability to work for a long time and maybe never again if they were in a physically demanding field (day construction or similar) that can’t be done with one leg/arm or no legs/arms. For many even a $10k outlay for copays and such would destroy them.

Yeah the mall is a possible lawsuit target. I heard the news saying the state had been promoting these bollards too, so if there’s any documentation indicating a conscious choice not to install them, then watch out.

Someone lower down said they’d sue Apple. I disagree with Apple specifically because they don’t control the parking lot or structure overall, but the mall is quite possible, yes.

Apple isn’t responsible. That does mean they won’t try to shake them down, but they’re not responsible.

Agree. The random non-car owner? Fucked.

That assumes the person responsible actually has any money to take, though.

Even wage garnishments x17 might net them $12.43 a month for 50 years because they won’t garnish wages below a certain point - they will set aside a “living wage” type amount from any salary before allowing for garnishment, and then that has to be divided up amongst them.

And that’s if the guy doesn’t go to jail and have no wages to garnish or go underground working under the table like many deadbeat parents and other lawsuit losing defendants do so their wages can’t be garnished.

It’s a horrible reality for these people that they aren’t likely to get shit.

I like the route 2 route, and since the pike is going to suck the life force right out of you and take a long time anyway, you may as well go route 2

I fully agree that the Massachusetts minimum insurance limits are absolute GARBAGE.

When we are also in our vehicles, we can choose for high limit “underinsured/uninsured driver” options on our insurance, but if you’re a pedestrian or cyclist or caught up in something like this?? The whole system falls apart.

LensCrafters may not be in network for you. I know it’s not for me (VSP plan), so you only get like 30 or 40% off and not the true allowance if you go there. If I go to someone in network, my glasses are basically almost free except for the premium coatings. The complexity of your prescription factors in too. Progressives cost more than single vision lenses, and stronger prescriptions on the feather weight lenses cost more, etc. There are a ton of factors.

It’s probably something like that, but we couldn’t tell you for sure without knowing the specifics of your plan and all the finer details.

Pioneer valley area, Northampton and environs

Can you look into the CHIP program also? That’s an alternative health insurance option that’s not exactly mass health but not commercial insurance either.

It’s basically Medicaid that you can pay for for lowER income people who don’t qualify for mass health because their earnings are a little too high.

CHIP info from benefits.gov