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" Ok, so you can blame me for the deluge that&amp;#039;s afflicted the northeast of late. Soon after my last post, which crowed about the stellar weather, the clouds moved in and southern New England was besieged with rain. There&amp;#039;s been massive flooding in some areas; up here in northern VT, we&amp;#039;ve missed the worst of it, racking up only about two inches of rainfall.  But it&amp;#039;s been persistently cloudy, enough so that the generator was pressed into service this morning to revive our flagging batteries. In the winter, when we run it every other day or so, I quickly learn to ignore the incessant noise. But after a couple weeks of silence, it drives me absolutely nuts and reminds me that for all our efforts, we&amp;#039;re still not energy independent. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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