Places like Atlanta have sprawled out into rural areas and are pushing the locals out or forcing once middle class people into the lower class. Not on the same talking point necessarily but the influx of wealth is crushing small towns
It’s over dewwy Dan is about to hop on
Yep, so those small towns have the pricing of a major city with none of the benefit … you can pay 400k for a home 45 minutes ( on a good day) away from your job with no transport bad schools and no entertainment … the south in a nutshell
I'm guessing Bergen has more influence from the ocean to help moderate temps.
Yeah the CMC had us going until it was time to pull the curtain back and see the RGEM, then it decided it had screwed with us long enough.
Always chuckle at the folks moving down here and getting sold a bill of goods about the climate. Yea, it's hot in summer and there are plenty of warm spells in winter but it still gets cold. They buy all these palms from Florida and various tropical plants and so many of them are dead after 1-2 winters. Even though USDA moved the Pee Dee to zone 8b based on the new 30yr average, we've been back to the "old" averages every winter since 2019-2020 of at least one night sub-15 degrees. Even though we haven't been under 10F and probably won't this winter, we've had so many nights in the low to mid 20s I'm hoping for a reset of sorts on all the invasive plants and animals that have come back after the single digit lows wiped them out in January 2018.
It's true. CMC held serve until literally like the run or two before it was in RGEM range. I really wondered what the RGEM was going to look like based on some of those CMC runs. Most likely, some of them would have been quite different haha.
Thanks for posting. Glad to see the Euro is back on board with a big one.
Yeah, hardiness zones are silly because even if the average minimum goes up, doesn’t mean you don’t get temps below it like we saw in 2018, much of nc is 8a including most of the Piedmont and even to some of the foothills. 2018 saw all time record lows in eastern nc. Honestly doesn’t do anything to most invasive plants as most are from similar climates in east Asia
I wouldn't doubt that. Just after covid I was on a freighter that went up the St. Lawrence to Erie PA. You can tell it's a "rust belt" city but it's been undergoing quite a revival. Home were very affordable that I saw for sale even in the nicer suburbs.
At least down here getting close to Myrtle we get a lot of tropical crap brought up from Florida to be sold. Agreed the asian stuff is used to it but the more tropical stuff gets zapped.
I just want to know if the models show this a good bit in fantasy land why can’t it ever just happen? You would think just once it would.Yeah. Never seen that happen before.
Well surely no one believes that, if they did they need help!
because chaos is hard.
Yes, that’s mostly it. Plus the Gulf Stream in general moderates it. Bergen on average is far colder than Tallahassee but the oceanic influence keeps extremes either way from happening.
Whew Glad I wasn't caught up in all that!
Yeah you are close to the beach, the tropicals are a bigger thing down there than here. I imagine they try to sell palms not meant outside of central Florida . Just stick to live oak , hickory, red oak, and sabal palm it’s great !
This is like when Frodo was captured by the orcs and taken to Mordor and Minas Tirith was being sacked by the orcs ! The darkest hour
You can look at I-20 in Georgia. Greene and Morgan County both have houses priced at $600,000 with median incomes at $80,000 the numbers just don’t work.
I wish towns would knock off planting the live oaks and stick to red oak for street trees. They grow too slowly away from the immediate coast to offer shade in any reasonable amount of time and don't transplant nearly as well as red oak. Quercus shumardii or more recently the disease resistant American Elm cultivars are becoming popular.
Filed under: good advice that we’ll never take.Might as well just not look at models behind D3 at this point, it just drives false hope and little payoff.
I used to work across the NY thruway. We'd start in Buffalo and hit Rochester, Syracuse and Albany on our way to the city. I couldn't live there. They felt kind of grimy and the people weren't my favorite. The delis though. We need those in the South.
I know two couples who pulled a reverse Sherman and moved from SC to Ohio just outside of Dayton. It's a surprisingly nice area and while a decent sized metro on its own you're not far from Columbus or Cincinnati.
Wow, I didn't expect the Euro to come back with such a big system this close after losing it.Yeah. Never seen that happen before.
That's how it goes. I got the most flakes I've had in three years just brushing my hair the other day.All this talk about models and our biggest snowstorm in 3 years just happens out of nowhere pretty much
The internet has rotted all our brains.
