Young adults have long been a major part of the demographic base, but at the same time as they get older, pay taxes, their views become more divergent. On the other hand, older people who tend to be more conservative, pass away, and younger people who become voters tend to be more liberal. Nothing too new here.
Tough economy out there for sure for many people ...
Every time you drive by the port, it seems like there is more and more crude oil tankers.
The average temperature for the weekend is a high 44 degrees with a low of 26 degrees. Saturday will get up to 45 degrees, but Sunday the cold blast comes back… a high of 31 degrees and low of 9 degrees. The cold doesn’t want to give up until it finally runs of out of gas, as spring creeps back.
Today is a cold and snowy morning. The wind was whipping around at the bus stop, and the best way to describe the roads is greasy this morning. Much better then last night, when the roads were icy from the freezing rain and sleet that fell around 6 PM last night. But even so this morning, the bus is doing some interesting side-by-side motion on the expressway. I believe they call that fish-tailing. The ramp onto I-787 was slowed to a crawl as everybody drove slow with the bad roads.
I think this was the worst storm all year for bad roads, even if the actual amount of accumulation of snow wasn’t that bad. It just was a lot of ice, sleet, and freezing rain combined with some pretty serious winds.
Winter, as they say. But if you don’t count today, we are down to 7 days until calender spring. A week from Friday starts calender spring, but knowing how this winter is going, it probably will snow on the first day of spring.
Winter is back for another punch. But I made it home and safely back to work, so I can't complain that much. Getting closer to spring too.
While the focus is soft, this shows the atrocious nature of the roads last night at the State Capitol, with a layer of freezing rain and sleet on top if all. This was around 6:50 pm at the South Swan and Washington Avenue bus stop, going west bound.
That's a layer of freezing rain with ice on the snow from last night.
Generally Catskill State Land classifications aren't particularly controversial, and tend to actually be fairly reasonable.
