February 20, 2020 Night

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Good evening! Partly clear and 19 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 7. There is a dusting of snow on the ground. Cold night for sure with the breeze, bitterly cold earlier waiting for the bus. 🚍 Things will start to thaw out at Saturday around 10 am. 🌡️

OH my GOSH, that old Yippie book 📙 hi was loaned by a friend is hilarious. 😂 Maybe not all of the content is politically correct and it’s not certainly not neutral in its views but certainly a people’s history of the 1960s through the 1970s. Some of the pages are probably too obscene to share but what do I care, it’s historical media at this point. 👴 All the people in it are very gray nowadays and the statue of limitations long past and I doubt it’s copyright. 🐽 I’m going to share more pictures tomorrow.

Rode the exercise bike 🚲 for a about an hour, caught up on YouTube. Prepper type channels tonight. While I don’t hoard supplies I do like learning more bushcraft and off grid stuff and to be more thoughtful 💭 about the risks in life. Then spend a few hours thumbing 👍 through that book about the Yippies.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 9 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 2 at 6am; Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light north. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 28 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 2015.

Tonight will have a New 🌚 Moon with 5% illuminated. The Worm 🐛 Moon is on Saturday, March 7. The darkest hour is at 12:10 am, followed by dawn at 6:18 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:47 am in the east-southeast (105°) and last for 3 minutes Sunrise is one minute and 29 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:26 am with sun in the east-southeast (111°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 10 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 46 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 31 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around January 30th. Light and variable wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 44 degrees. The record high of 73 was set in 2018. 11 inches of snow fell back in 1929.❄

In four weeks on March 19 the sun will be setting in the west (270°) at 7:06 pm (Daylight Savings Time),🌄 which is one hour, 33 minutes and 57 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 45 and 24 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 46 and 27 degrees. The record high of 78 degrees was set back in 2012.

Looking ahead, Spring 🌷 is a month away, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 11 weeks, Last Day of Session 🏛 is in 4 months, Summer ️⛱️ is in 4 months and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 11 months.

🇺🇸🦅Only 13 weeks remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

River Is Freezing

Difficult Times for Politicians of the 1990s.

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These are difficult times for politicians of the 1990s to get ahead… 👴🏽

Simply said, the twenties aren’t the turn of the century anymore. Tough on-crime criminal justice policies that might have made sense two or three decades when crime was escalating and a serious concern of the public don’t make much sense in a world when crime is low and declining. People nowadays see the impacts of a tough-on crime world, the evil of mass incarceration state, not the crime that once was bad. 

 

Department of Defense Illegally Burning Stockpiles of Toxic “Forever Chemicals” | Earthjustice

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Department of Defense Illegally Burning Stockpiles of Toxic “Forever Chemicals” | Earthjustice

New York, NY — Today, environmental and community groups sued the Department of Defense (DOD) over its contracts to burn millions of gallons of unused firefighting foam containing PFAS in incinerators across the country. The DOD is the nation’s largest user of firefighting foam containing PFAS, a class of highly persistent and toxic chemicals that are known to cause cancer, liver disease, infertility, and other serious health effects.

According to government documents Earthjustice obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, PFAS burning already took place, or is taking place, in the towns of East Liverpool, Ohio; Arkadelphia and El Dorado, Arkansas; and Cohoes, New York. The contracts also authorize PFAS incineration in other locations, including Port Arthur, Texas, and Sauget, Illinois. Incineration may already be underway in those and other locations, too, but DOD has not fully responded to FOIA requests seeking a full list of incineration locations.

I guess it's not a problem if the fire is hot enough to fully break up the carbon chains, but it's good to ask questions and not trust the government at it's word, because it doesn't always do the right thing.

Stewart Landing Campsites.

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Stewart Landing Campsites !

The Stewart Landing Campsites are tucked on a rough and often muddy dirt road, a little ways back from Stewart Landing.

They aren’t fancy, some of them are a bit closer together then I would like, so I doubt I’d camp there during the holidays or even the summer season.

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But still they’re not a bad place to be, especially if your planning on doing some hiking or paddling on West Canada Lake.

Lazy day

And in the spring when I was there, it was pretty quiet.

But I’m sure on a nice day like this one there would be a lot more people up there.

Clearing At Stewart Landing