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92tide said:
we have a group of friends that attend every year (one of the couples are members of one of the krewes) and i was surprised that none of them caught it. we attended the atlanta united opening match with one of the couples not long after they had returned.
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I go nearly every year, including this year but we went early, first weekend in February. Had it been later we would not have gone.

Mobile being Alabama's hottest hotspot does not surprise me in the least. Wife is from there and I lived in Baldwin County for a while. They aren't just stupid, they are damn proud to be so stupid. Mobile goes out of it's way to be backwards. Trump chose there for his first Bama rallies for a reason.
 
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Just imagine that Northern Italy is the NYC style international business area, the carnival area and the ski area all in a rather small geographic area compared to those three in the US. You toss on top of all of that the age factor and............. man............
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My wife's best friend, one I'm close to also, got it early for here - early March. She almost died with ARDS -- idiopathic odd pneumonia, flu test negative. She had ridden back on a flight from Chicago by a gentleman from northern Italy...
 
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I go nearly every year, including this year but we went early, first weekend in February. Had it been later we would not have gone.

Mobile being Alabama's hottest hotspot does not surprise me in the least. Wife is from there and I lived in Baldwin County for a while. They aren't just stupid, they are damn proud to be so stupid. Mobile goes out of it's way to be backwards. Trump chose there for his first Bama rallies for a reason.
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Born and raised there and it's hard to argue with what you said. My Mom and Dad rode down to Dauphin Island from Mobile yesterday to get out for a bit and see my uncles. They were all on the porch, properly distanced. The house is directly across the street from the ferry and boat launch down there. My dad said he just shook his head at all the folks coming and going. Not just small families on the boats, either. It was party time all day, with large groups hopping on and off the boats at the launch.
 
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Born and raised there and it's hard to argue with what you said. My Mom and Dad rode down to Dauphin Island from Mobile yesterday to get out for a bit and see my uncles. They were all on the porch, properly distanced. The house is directly across the street from the ferry and boat launch down there. My dad said he just shook his head at all the folks coming and going. Not just small families on the boats, either. It was party time all day, with large groups hopping on and off the boats at the launch.
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I believe it. Watching my wife's family on Facebook and you'd only know there is anything going on by all of their proud insistence that there isn't. Family get togethers, boating with friends. Hell they had a well attended kids party this weekend and can't understand why we didn't come and think them crazy for doing it in the first place.

My wife and one of my children are mobile born. We moved to Baldwin County when she was pregnant with #2 as I work from home and she wanted to be closer to family. We got there and she pretty quickly recalled "oh yeah I always hated here and couldn't wait to leave, why did I move back?" We lasted 18 months and fled back to the real world
 
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CrimsonMapper said:
That's cool! In Mobile, we have a lot of orders, mystics, krewes, and crewes. We were founded by Knights of Columbus members in 1922, so I'm surprised weren't named Krewe of Columbus instead of Crewe of Columbus. Maybe they wanted to clearly differentiate between KoC and CoC.

I originally started in meteorology and physical geography. My last semester before graduation I took a GIS class and became hooked. I focused my graduate work on human and social geograhy, GIS, remote sensing, and programming. I can't imagine doing anything else now. The last two years I've jumped headfirst into data science and deep learning. It's a amazing where the technology is going with this stuff. A lot of the contact tracing mapping through cell phones is really cool. I'd love to work with some of that data.
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i miss doing all of the spatial analytic work. we were doing a lot of work looking at the health effects of the built environment. I also did a lot of mapping/analysis work in the early stages of the planning for the atlanta belt line.

my r.a. work was rectifying orthoquads (i think that's what they were called) for the entire state of georgia. we were updating the entire state to infrared. it took three of us the better part of 4 semesters to complete that.

i got to help on a couple of projects where we did tree-cover, sidewalk, and impervious surface analysis for the metro-area using multi-spectral imagery. i could get lost in that stuff for long periods of time.

one of my old running buddies is a long-time research scientist for g.t.r.i. (georgia tech research institute) and worked on some of the early incarnations of google earth.
 
selmaborntidefan said:
We opened up here in Texas last Friday, but you'd be hard-pressed to know it. This was the point a lot of folks were making - you can tell folks, "Hey, we're open," but you can't make them go out.
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Well, you should come to good ole Montgomery, AL, where I'm happy to report that the pandemic is over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My goodness, you should see the number of people out and about. Monday and Tuesday's are my "in office" days. Traffic this morning was a pain. Shopping center parking lots, that had been mostly empty, look like early Christmas season. The Hobby Lobby lot was almost full.

In my office building there are over 40 people back to work on the first floor today, most in a single large cubicle room. For the past month, there have only been about 10 people at most. This is what happens when you have a governor saying "stay home" in public but demanding that parole hearings resume in private. Can't have parole hearings without bringing the agency back to work. Sack of "you know what" governor.

The second wave is going to hit this area much worse then it has so far and, this time, people will flat out refuse to shut down again. At this point, most people would rather die. At least that's the way it feels around here.
 
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Interesting stats (SIAP)

Current US deaths are at 69,168.

That's more than US combat casualties in WWI (53,402). Interestingly, more US troops were lost to disease (63,114), primarily due to the 1918 flu epidemic.

Publix update:
  • A large percentage of shoppers still haven't grasped the concept of one-way aisles.
  • I'm told that Wal-Mart has the same problem, but frankly, the size and layout of Wally World makes one-way aisles more problematic--very few shoppers start at one end of the store and work their way across.
  • Publix is being somewhat lax in enforcing the mask requirements--they have a sign at the entrance reminding people of the ordinance, but if someone doesn't have a mask, they're still allowed in--they may just be giving people a grace period to get a mask
  • Still have the urge to throat punch Shipt workers, as their ability to block aisles is unmatched.
  • Toilet paper!
  • BLEACH!!!
 
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Interesting stats (SIAP)

Current US deaths are at 69,168.

That's more than US combat casualties in WWI (53,402). Interestingly, more US troops were lost to disease (63,114), primarily due to the 1918 flu epidemic.
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and that 69K number is likely low, some are saying we've passed 100k already
 
Kemp: Georgia reaches lowest recorded ventilator usage in COVID-19 pandemic

Today marks the lowest day for ventilators in use in Georgia during the coronavirus pandemic since health officials started keeping track, Gov. Brian Kemp has announced.

On Twitter, Kemp said that 992 out of an available 2,846 ventilators are in use around the state - leaving 1,854 available.
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Has anyone bothered to tell Kemp that ventilators haven't been recommended for severe cases for some time?
 
92tide said:
i also did some early planning work on the toll/express lanes that have been popping up in atlanta the past decade or so.
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i look at the toll roads in the orlando area and have a lot of appreciation for the people who have to plan for the growth and future traffic patterns. if it weren't for the i-4 constuction the 408 tool through downtown would be a lot faster and it is still pretty smooth except for 45 minutes am/pm with work folks gong to work or home. once the consturction is though it should be smoother all round.
 
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