The big island is pretty cool. I really liked it the time I went there. Truly amazing how the flora is so different from one side of the island vs the other.
yeah....but it's pretty hard to ignore the fairly impressive signal showing up on the ECMWF weeklies already. A November cold snap wouldn't be shocking this year.
Not with a year like this. We are on a pretty good roll as far as almost every recent winter having something decent, and now we have at least weak cold ENSO with a +QBO. I'm in for at least one good round of cold and snow this winter.
Nope, I have never said the government has "never helped anyone", but since you brought it up, Social Security will be extinct long before any of us currently in their 40's - 50's will get any actual benefit from it. I would like everything I have paid in to it back, that will never happen, IMO. SS taxes paid in have been used far more for things outside the intended use than for the intended use for far too many years.