I don't think I can upvote this enough

Not even that. The only parts getting anywhere close to 2" (maybe) are in the NorthWest; everyone else in that band gets less than an inch (or some sort of rain/sleet mix, more likely, given temperature forecasts).

Pumpernickel, followed by Sesame. The former with cream cheese or as a deli sandwich (ham/cheese/turkey), the latter toasted with egg and cheese and either pork roll or bacon for breakfast.

We watched this a few weeks ago for the first time, and even then, I somehow knew exactly what was coming in the next scene after that quote. Didn't make it any less funny.

Besides which, where else are you going to find a haunted, abandoned insane asylum located on top of a hill?

If you can stand it without your ear drums bleeding, just stand in the vestibule for about 15 minutes. That's about how long it takes to start recycling the tape looping the music

Oh, right, I forgot about the sales tax part. And the "don't worry, the funds are *constitutionally protected* from being used for anything but the Transportation Trust Fund" thing. Right, because that's really stopped them from reallocating (excuse me... "borrowing") the funds before.

About a year before he left office, he "negotiated" (read: did the Republican thing of shutting down parts of government - in this case, the Department of Transportation - until he got what he wanted) with the legislature both an immediate increase in the gas tax (over 20 cents/gal) and a reformulation of how it worked.

In addition to the base rate, which the tax cannot go below, it basically relies on two major factors - how much revenue it generated during the previous year, and how much it is projected to generate during the upcoming year. (There's also a small adjustment for inflation.) That formula then determines if the tax goes up or down from year-to-year, and by how much.

It was announced in Sept the gas tax would be about a penny less than it was last year, thanks to the increase in driving as people are trying to move past the pandemic, but that still puts us just outside the top-10 for gas tax as compared to other states.

Being inland, we didn't get hit with the rain or water as much (despite being next to the D&R and Raritan)... but the wind ripped *EVERYTHING* apart. There were constant flashes of lights as transformers exploded from falling power poles, large trees ripped up from the roots, lots of houses which suddenly had large holes in the roof or siding, any loose stuff lying around was suddenly hundreds of yards away, etc.

Hillsborough looked like one of those disaster films, with wires and poles and housing materials and other debris spread all over the place.

I remember the biggest initial challenge to restoring power wasn't replacing the poles and wires, but just getting stuff cleared out enough to even get to the places.

That's clearly a lie, because everyone knows that the only people in CT are the ones stuck in traffic trying to get through CT to other states.