There are some reports of people waiting three hours to vote on the first day of Early Voting 🗳
It’s absolutely stupid to wait that long, unnecessary Covid-19 risk with eight more days of early voting left plus Election Day. Or better yet, just do an absentee ballot, making sure to sign the outer envelope and date it, making sure to have it postmarked when dropped off at the post office. Hardly rocket science to have a valid absentee ballot.
Honestly, if the lines don’t tamper down this week I’ll just go to the post office and pay the 55 cents and make sure the clerk postmarks my ballot. No way in hell am I waiting in a line like that, especially when there is not a single competive election locally where the winner is all but certain to have more than 60 percent of the vote.
Hopefully these Early Voting spectacles won’t be a super spreader event for COVID-19. There is a very good chance that at least some of those people in the line have Coronavirus if statistics are to believed. The risk is so high with so many people in closer corners, touching the same pens and tablet computers when they sign in. I understand that democracy is important but it shouldn’t be conducted in a way that risks public health when there are so many safer ways to vote.
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Hopefully it won't be a super spreader event for COVID-19. There is a very good chance that at least some of those people in the line have Coronavirus if statistics are to believed.
Honestly, if the lines don't tamper down this week I'll just go to the post office and pay the 55 cents and make sure the clerk postmarks my ballot. No way in hell am I waiting in a line like that, especially when there is not a single competive election locally where the winner is all but certain to have more than 60 percent of the vote.
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Good morning! Happy Saturday. Early Voting Starts today! 🗳 Voting is important but I’m not going to wait for hours, ⏳ catch Next Saturday is Halloween 🎃 and the Blue Moon 👻 🌕🦇. Cloudy with rain showers and 56 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a west-northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 47 degrees. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 2 am. ☃️
I walked down to the Early Vote ❎ place down the road and was really surprised at the lines, with 8⃣ more days left to Early Vote plus Election Day. I mean I want to save the 55 cents in when I drop off my absentee ballot but I’m not going to wait in a big line during the middle of a pandemic. 👭👾👨👩👦👨👩👧👦👨👧👦🗣️ Especially when I can just buy a stamp and mail ✉ my absentee ballot with local elections being non competitive.
Today will have scattered showers, mainly before noon. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 59 degrees at 1pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 19th. Maximum dew point of 47 at 11am. Northwest wind 10 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 68 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 2017. There was a dusting of snow in 1962.❄
This afternoon I’m going to walk 🚶🏻 out to Five Rivers 🐦 🐸 🦉 and do some bird watching 🔭 and nature observations. I really did think 🤔 about driving out there yesterday but I much prefer the walk and it’s hard to turn out my driveway that hour at rush hour. I expect this afternoon to be quite nice.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 35.4° from the due south horizon (-35.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 8.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:21 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (248°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (254°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:00 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 1 seconds with dusk around 6:27 pm, which is one minute and 28 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south-southeast (155°) at an altitude of 24° from the horizon, 241,703 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:02 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 53 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 38 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 41 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 35 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 31st. Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 48 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1981.
Today in 1977, persuant to National Holiday Law, Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. 🪖 The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.
Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 when the sun will be setting at 4:27 pm with dusk at 4:58 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny, shallow fog and temperatures between 47 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 46 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 1931.
