That's why it's a bad idea. We will spend huge amounts of money burying all the lines that don't need it and the same people will still lose power.

Edit: burying the lines doesn't eliminate or even reduce maintenance cost either... So you spend a bunch of money digging the lines and then you don't even get a payback from upkeep cost reductions.

Ya... And it's a terrible idea.

She's not one of the folks trying to kill education in the NEK is she?

Something out of Montpelier I can get behind! That's rarer and rarer these days.

It's not. The NEK is dead enough. People in here talking about defunding two of it's biggest employers and leaving three counties without a highschool.

Why?

I chose to come back to Vermont after college to stay away from all the kinds of people moving here now. Yuppies, I can't fucking stand yuppies.

One side is people arguing that their religion should control education, the other side arguing that the government should and I don't trust either of them to have the best interest of the student at heart. The Vermont Independent schools provide a vastly superior education, not tied to the edicts of a higher power with dubious motives for the same cost as sending the kids to some rural shit hole public school. (For far less when you factor in you will have to build that rural shithole public school first). As long as they are following the law, leave them alone. They are spending that money better than the public schools are for better results for Vermont children.

>Why is there so many Stars around us if we can't reach any?

Because the universe wasn't built for us. This is a very self centered take on the cosmos.

They can't put phone books on your chair so you can see over the dash.

This must be for the flatlanders then eh? Never went picking stones like a bunch of degens.

This is what I do. Alewife for the Red line or Oak Grove for Orange. Alewife (like the rest of the red line) is a little higher end, garage instead of a lot etc.

Unless the land is posted and signed, you are allowed to respectfully access it legally. This goes for any private land in Vermont. Local custom is to ask first, despite that not being legally required, just the polite thing to do.

Edit: the caveat being, if someone asks you to leave, you need to leave. Once they tell you that you are not welcome, you are trespassing.

Edit2: another caveat, if you get hurt on their land and it wasn't because of a hazard they created, they are not liable.

You're still just arguing semantics rather than addressing the actual argument...

Picking a single word from a single definition despite colloquial usage is the definition of semantics.

Sure. So rural areas just don't matter? It's the same process but you got us with semantics. Be proud.

They'll yell that from the rooftops and then, with no sense of irony at all, complain about not being able to hire any help...

Checking in from Caledonia and Essex counties where my once isolated hunting camp is now located smack dab in the middle of two major developments. (The 10 acre sub division for mcmansion type of development, not the kind we need)

Pretty useless in the NEK these days unless you really need 12 PBSs and no major networks, but I used to get all the big guys in South Burlington. There are a bunch of websites where you can enter your location and antenna specs and it will give you a list of broadcasters within range you can find on Google. Varies greatly depending on where you are and what mountains are between you and the towers.

Absolutely, combis are the suckers bet. Indirect has some built in inefficiencies too because of losses across exchangers. An open system on the other hand, when done correctly, is superior to both. Most people don't know how to do an open system correctly though/are unjustifiably scared of it.

Definitely not worth it. Could have heated that whole space and done your domestic water with a single tankless propane unit that would run less than 4 hours a day. If you're paying more than about 9 cents a kilowatt hour for power, LP or NG will be a more cost-effective method anyway still. Let alone being a fraction of the upfront cost... But people insist on paying more to pay more cause "propane bad".

This. Also they aren't going to handle any significant square footages even with in floor radiant. They just don't have the recovery rate needed to get the job done over 1000 square feet of 1/2" tube during cold weather. You can add a big buffer tank but at that point you've lost the benefits of the heat pump and could get the same/better efficiency from a modern propane or natural gas condensing tankless water heater for a third of the cost. Heating water with electricity for space heating in Vermont is generally not an optimal solution. Our rates are too high and our winters are too cold.

My sophomore year at the Academy we got the first snow day since 1986. Two buses had to go off the road for them to partially close for the day. Those in the dorms and within walking distance were still expected to be in chapel at 8am.

Not for st. J. Not entirely rare to spend an entire month bouncing between -10 and -20 in the NEK. It's pretty standard weather. Just extra warm this year.

So your reading comprehension isn't great.