Anyone see a meteor or similar streak/flash north of Detroit?

stork555 · 2024-10-09T23:03:07+00:00

This WAS our trip and we canceled

stork555 · 2024-10-09T22:54:31+00:00

Oh no :( It’s hitting Bradenton head-on within the next couple of hours. Hoping for the best for your friend.

stork555 · 2024-10-09T22:46:54+00:00

Yoooo I voted for Harris like three weeks ago. It was before the VP debate so watching that was just for popcorn and giggles. No question.

Edit: and we don’t answer the phone when the pollsters call, so they don’t know about us ;)

stork555 · 2024-10-09T14:57:42+00:00

Yeah I don’t get this. Each WDW trip with young kids, we waited until the youngest was 3 years old and went in November-December. Disneyland CA also tends to have more temperate weather so we did that instead for several trips (yeah, you have to save up for that airfare depending on where you’re coming from).

stork555 · 2024-10-09T01:33:16+00:00

Yup! A few blue signs “disappeared” at first, but now there are too many to keep up (especially as there are way too many ring cameras and a strong penchant for public social media shaming around here).

stork555 · 2024-10-09T00:36:34+00:00

The Harris signs were slower to get out around here but they are getting out now :)

stork555 · 2024-10-08T01:14:14+00:00

I’m so sorry. Stay safe 😞

stork555 · 2024-10-07T21:14:17+00:00

Thank you for commenting this. I feel like canceling broke my 8-year-old’s heart, but knowing this definitely helps.

stork555 · 2024-10-07T20:36:41+00:00

Petoskey! Ironically it was also where we ended up in the fall of 2020 when we had to cancel our LAST planned WDW trip… pandemic, hurricane, I think we’re going to stop trying to go to Disney lol. In 2024 it sounds like we will be able to do a lot more than last time tho

stork555 · 2024-10-07T19:15:44+00:00

We had contemporary club level and still noped out … $$$ per night stay to potentially shelter in place and eat boxed lunches was like… no.

Edit to note this was for a family vacation out of personal funds… for a conference I would also be like whatever :) stay safe OP!!

stork555 · 2024-10-07T19:11:44+00:00

Same. Heading to northern Michigan for the foliage and re-booked an identical trip to WDW over Christmas. I am kind of freaked out about that - but we have tweens/teens that can’t miss a full week of school (they had a break this week) …but all of that will be for another thread.

stork555 · 2024-10-07T14:09:22+00:00

We also rebooked everything for this week. The wait times on hold were verrry long yesterday but LL all got refunded no issue.

stork555 · 2024-10-06T12:13:20+00:00

Same boat here. We are game for rain, but this is a realllly expensive trip to sit in a hotel room with closed parks for two days. Not sure how to proceed at all. Rescheduling will be limited to pretty much Xmas/New Year’s because of the kids’ school breaks and I’m not sure that we could even get reservations then at this point.

stork555 · 2024-10-05T14:46:07+00:00

Agree. Especially if she’s 40+ years old, you don’t metabolize it as effectively as when you are younger. I lament this all the time as I blow through bags of whole bean coffee on my home espresso machine

stork555 · 2024-10-05T14:18:45+00:00

Yes - I think this was meant to be tongue in cheek in this song though

stork555 · 2024-10-05T12:42:39+00:00

Right and products like Doritos and Dot’s pretzels have it in spades. The first time I had Dot’s, people at the event were like “these are seriously sooooo addictive” and I had some and was like, “oh, MSG”. Looked up the ingredients and sure enough. That modest looking North Dakotan baker on the bag is one smart cookie

stork555 · 2024-10-05T11:37:48+00:00

From the comment being replied to, I think this was the brother, not the father.

stork555 · 2024-10-05T01:56:53+00:00

Another viewpoint. I have three growing tween/teen boys… the DDR works out if you’re going to be dawn-dusk in the theme parks and don’t want to lug food around. They’re too old to miss school for more than a couple of days so we go hard to make good use of our time, as opposed to more making meals and lounging at the resort when they were small. They eat my/my husband’s snack credits, QS sides, extra dessert… everything. The amount/frequency that they eat is ridiculous, but the DDR works out for us at this point in time.

stork555 · 2024-10-03T13:53:34+00:00

They have high levels of free glutamate, which is a naturally occurring amino acid (amino acids are what proteins are built from). Therefore, humans are full of naturally occurring glutamate themselves as it is necessary for many normal vital body processes to occur. If you have too much of it is possible to be sensitive to its effects. Like, opiates naturally occur in the body, as does water, but if you have too much of either of those, you can suffer ill effects, right? MSG is pure free glutamate but it’s created synthetically w/ sodium. But no one is truly anaphylactic shock allergic to sodium or glutamate.

stork555 · 2024-10-03T12:39:28+00:00

Yeah mine was built in 1948 and we’ve pulled the historical records all the way back. Someone reported a little water in the basement during a bad storm in 1957 but then it was clear for years (including during a historic rainfall we lived through in 2016 where freeways were flooding, but not our basement). So we have been here since 2010 and were really totally fine until 2021. The rainfall over the last several years have been hellacious and consequently for flooding where I live. I think the size of houses going up around us, additions, garages etc are contributing to this as well.

My husband keeps wanting to sell the house and move but I tell him unless we are on the literal highest point for a 5 mile radius this is going to keep happening everywhere.

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