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Pretty soon we'll need to start a "Wet Forest" thread! :dance:

Totals from this storm . The next one looks like it could bring more. Getting some pretty strong wind gusts here right now, think I'll skip my usual afternoon walk. :)

My grandfather was a coal miner in Southern Illinois. Severely burned in a mine explosion and recovered, only to be killed a few years later by a passing car while assisting another driver on the shoulder at dusk. I was very young and only have hazy memories of him. Rough job, going down into a...

For thirty bucks? :jd:

This one really didn't amount to much here. Get ready for the next one! :dance: Getting even warmer, no snow. And it looks like the biggest impact will be West of the Pines.

I fixed it so the box would pick the substitute map and the alert would close. But the alert was showing up for every map (or almost every map?) and not just HERE/Mapbox. This is going to take some time to debug, so I have rolled the changes back. Everything should be the same as before, with...

Weird, I see that in Edge too, but not with Chrome or Safari. It seems to happen no matter what you do in Edge, even links to other maps. Those messages should only appear if you try to open a link to a Mapbox or HERE map, so I'm stumped there. In the middle of a huge backup now that will take...

The update is now online and seems to be working. There may still some rough edges, but I think the major bugs are all squashed. Substitutes for the HERE and Mapbox maps are chosen based on the part of the map you're viewing. In the Pines, there are more options and I hope to add a couple...

NWS now has a full briefing on the storm here https://www.weather.gov/media/phi/current_briefing.pdf

Seems like that last part, "...strong winds, heavy rain and flooding concerns the middle of next week" could be the real story here. :)

That was my first thought.... because I saw it on some Discovery Channel show about similar features! :clint:

I'm better today - moving on and doing what needs to be done. My main interest is creating new maps and not distributing commercial products, so this might actually be a positive thing. Working on the changes now but it will be tomorrow before they go live - it's major surgery. But heads up -...

There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about where our society is heading. But I don't think this is one of them. I mean.... it's facebook. What do you expect from a group of people watching a chair in a derelict house? Reminds me of an old joke Person 1: The food in this restaurant is...

Yeah, it sucks and I'm sorry - but I'm through with these commercial products. It's only a matter of time before there are more limitations and price increases, so I have no plans to resolve anything - these maps are going away and not coming back. The server lease is all paid through March, and...

Just to be clear, these maps will all be going away. :( Will work out the details tomorrow - a different map will be substituted for any old links to these maps. Will probably use locally-hosted maps here in the Pines, a USGS map for the rest of the US and a very low-resolution basemap for any...

Well, this is bad news. I looked at my HERE usage stats on the new account which only covers the first two days of January. The numbers looked very high, but I didn't understand them so I opened a support ticket. Still a bit confused by their response, which is rather cryptic. But this just...

Our temperatures are supposed to be above freezing through the whole event (43 Sat, 34 Sat Night, 41 Sunday). If that's right, plus the warm ground, any snow that we get probably won't last for long.

Looks like the snow thrower can stay in storage this weekend. :) Natl Weather Service - Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Good question, I have wondered about that for awhile myself and was reminded of it recently when I made my new topo map. There's a "Mankiller Preserve" a little farther East on Jack Pudding https://boydsmaps.com/pines/#15/39.475573/-74.653591/pines2023/0/0/ Actually, that preserve is a bunch...