These are top tier potato chips! I bet they were under the impression that quotes add emphasis. Hopefully they are phasing out that design.

If your pipes freeze, you want the water to be dripping so pressure doesn't build up and cause the pipes to burst. Frozen pipes are a hassle, cracked pipes and a flood are a nightmare.

This increase seems targeted for sure.

Although with the number of cars sliding off the roads and into each other in each storm, I can see the risk/rates for the entire state increasing more than usual next year.

He's bringing up a topic that needs more discussion. The churches collect donations, the churches are supposed to be providing a community service and helping people, and the churches are not paying taxes. If the churches are not providing a needed community service, they should be paying taxes so the community can do more with that money.

I remember kids saying this all the time in school. To me it always sounded like they were saying "umm-vah!" or "oom-vah!", and it was always after a kid said or did something they should not have. "ummvah, you're in trouble!" "oomvah, I'm telling the teacher".

I only ever heard it in maine and thought it was a french canadian thing.

Yes! I can't survive the dry winter air without one. Especially at night. If I don't sleep with a humidifier this time of year my sinuses dry out and it's so uncomfortable.

If we can get a maritime law expert to join us we'll have the Mainest situations covered!

I don't believe this is a case where insurance is going to cover anything for you, but also as an FYI, it's not a great idea to put small claims in to your insurance if you can avoid it.

Filing a claim gets you rated as someone who is more likely to file a claim again and your annual rate will go up for that risk (and when you try to get quotes from another company, they will also take those claims into account). Home insurance is great for major and catastrophic damages, but not for smaller expenses.

This is important. Tree law gets tricky, but some general guidelines:

• If a healthy tree falls and does damage to your own property, your insurance will possibly cover the damages.
  • If the healthy tree damages your neighbor's property, you may not be legally responsible and they will need to make their own insurance claim.
• If the tree was obviously dead, unhealthy, or damaged previously, then the insurance company may say you were negligent in not maintaining/removing the tree and they will not cover the damage.
  • If this tree does damage to your neighbor's property, then you may be held financially responsible.

Insurance companies love this one trick!

(In fact, they insist on it!)

He's adorable!

You're never far from outdoorsy stuff to do in any part of Maine, so to add on the outdoor mall feeling head to Freeport or Kittery.

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I fully support this wholesome fun! Honestly just happy to see people keeping trick-or-treating alive when so many trunk-or-treat and parking lot events are killing it.