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I'm in East Windsor. Wife and I used to live in your area in Berlin. Frosty is not too far from you either (cant remember his town) GGC lives not far from me in Old Bridge or Marlboro, I believe.

I will second Cannon (you have to see Haystack Rock which really is impressive). My wife actually loves Seaside which is up the coast a bit from Cannon. It is older and very laid back. If you go that far may as well run on up to Astoria and cross the bridge there into Washington.

Wasn't the thing when I was there. It was the Farmhouse for parent visits or a date or the Hokie House with the buds, basically. Mike's pissed us off for closing in the summer when the students were gone and we owned the town for a while, so we kinda quit going there. When I was a rat, the upperclassmen all loved the Golden Gobbler, but I was too young and sans vehicle for that place. I honestly don't think I ever went to the Homeplace. As a student on the GI Bill, I was way too poor to afford that or anything other than cheap.

Currently -3 in Chicago

Tomorrow by the time the basketball game starts it'll be above 5 degrees, so I'll probably venture out to watch the game with another Hokie

When I bought my house, we had an almost whole house generator. Ran all but the heat pump and the oven, for some reason. We never really needed it in the 13+ years we've been here so when it died on us last year, we decided to forgo the expense and let 'er die. We plan on selling soon, and we're not worried about trying to enhance the property. Hope it doesn't bite us on the butt in this one, but our location so close to the Bay keeps a lot of the more egregious stuff being a problem. The water in the Bay actually keeps us warmer in winter and cooler in summer. That said, we're on the line between not great and not good, but will always figure bad is possible. Frozen pipes is the worry with the cold air coming, but we live right across the street from the local convalescent home and only a block away from "downtown" Mathews, with the cop shop and fire dept. there, so power tends to be quickly restored here locally, but if the baaaadddd stuff disrupts the regional stuff, we might be sleeping in the car or something. Got beer, plenty of don't have to cook stuff, roasting a chicken as we speak and made a batch of brownies this morning. Birds are fed and radio is working for the Hokies since our local CW refuses to show live sports through Dish and we get no reception over the air. As set as I can be, I guess.

to be fair, if it's that cold outside you can just stick it out there

Between this and the Duke QB who just wants his NIL contract he signed with Duke to just go away, I'm starting to really root hard against the athletes in this current era.

The pendulum swung HARD and seriously overcorrected to the point where the NCAA needs to be given actual authority to regulate, and come down hard with the hammer to reign it under control

Maybe, but they'd been shocking up those fish for many years, for trade up north for stripers and walleye. And we're not talking a slow decline, either. One year they're there, two years later you'd have to fish for weeks to find one white bass. The other fish most definitely benefitted from the removal of an incredible amount of predator fish, but I still just don't understand the total collapse.

Small amounts of ice are manageable, but it's half inch and beyond where it really messes things up, I've heard.

If you can help with the generator, you're greatly welcome!

hokietopher, what part of NJ? We are in Voorhees, south jersey.

I'm in Davidson. We also have gas fire places with battery backup ignition and a gas stove top so I am sure we will be fine. My basement full of snakes I keep are another story. I think I have solid plan in place to keep them warm enough for a few days but I'm definitely investing in a generator when they are back in stock. I'd love it if all these forecasts bust and we just get rain. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like that will happen.