Thanks for the link! Now for my 15 minutes of fame! 😊

In your own words, what do you think the scandal is here? What do you think Angus King is guilty of?

Wait, wait, wait. Do you mean someone used the built-in reporting function as intended? The horror! How will democracy ever survive this vicious attack on it's very foundations.

“It’s very, very abnormal,” Dutson said of King’s social media list. “And I would have to say, unfortunately, (it’s) kind of a pattern with Angus King and his political career.”

Dutson led Republican Charlie Summers’ campaign against King in 2012 and recalled how King paid interns to post positive comments under fake names in response to online news stories and blogs about the campaign.

“If that’s not disinformation, I don’t know what is,” he said. “His sudden concern with disinformation as a principled thing seems kind of out of place. What does seem in place is a pattern of using dirty digital tricks to advance his political campaigns.”

This reminds me of a childhood story: My siblings and I always got tasked with shoveling the driveway as kids. It wasn't a big driveway, but we always dreaded doing it. One day we were about half done shoveling after a big storm, and one of the neighbors comes over with his snowblower and starts helping us out. After about 5 seconds of that, my mother comes running out of the house waving her arms and says something like "No, no. The kids can shovel. They don't mind." So he turned around and headed home, and we picked up our shovels and finished. I grew up in The County. Go figure.

I wonder how much of it is the landlord. The other places in that strip mall are also rundown and the parking lot is worse than the Bangor Mall’s, if you can believe it.

The least Neal could do it take you out to dinner first.

Shame. Caribou and Houlton ain't gonna get any.

It's not about length, it's about girth.

Thank you! I've never driven in a detour area so I wanted to let people know but also was unsure if I was cool to drive in and out real quick nowhere near the site. 😁

I've not been to the job site so I don't know if there's any hazards (downed lines, unstable roads, etc.) that exist. But generally when there's a bridge out local traffic is permitted to travel up right almost to the bridge if they need to access something on the detoured road.

I'd say go for it and if you see a flagger, cop, or foreman just give a quick shout out your window asking if you can proceed safely and they'll let you know what to do. But obviously there may be other issues beyond what a typical bridge site has that may make this different. Whatever you do, don't approach the culvert area; the embankments by the culvert are almost certainly unstable.

And don't pass any signs or persons that indicate danger ahead. They may also need to close down the area for work to stabilize the site so you might be stopped short of your destination if they need a large area for equipment or what not; but I would hope that worst case is you likely could park close to your appointment and walk to it.

Edit: The proper signage you would normally see is they'll have a detour sign and some barricades with a zig-zag path between them and another sign that says "local traffic only". Then you're allowed to pass. But, again, this was an unplanned detour so I have no idea what signage they've managed to put up.

That's awesome!

Quick question. I have an appointment in the detour but no where near the culvert. Am I allowed to drive past the sign since I'm not going through?

Sub-consultant structural engineer to the contractor that was hired by the DOT for this job. I designed the concrete and reinforcement for the new culvert. Just finished a re-design of the new culvert this afternoon to allow them to fabricate it faster than scheduled. But it's all a big team effort. MaineDOT does a great job and the major roadway contractors in Maine are top notch.

Are you with the DOT?

We're trying to fix it as fast as we can! Old culvert was scheduled to be replaced this year. Got a call this morning that we need the new culvert a littttttttle bit sooner than expected.

It's only funny when you quote the actual forecast. Then my boyfriend will dread it every time he sees 2-3 inches forecast. 😁

Burnt meadow

So his time working with Pine Tree Legal was political?

Be honest. It's more like 4-6 isn't it?

Pshaw. I get 8 inches every night.

I just fucking cackled

True true. The funniest thing is my boss in staying in Maine due to the storm because he comes up from mass every day. But he says it won’t affect our tractor going south lol

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There's always that guy.

I work in property management and the guy who was on call during the last storm (for plowing hahahaha) was like "It's only going to be an inch or two, I'm not even going to have to plow."

The last two big storms my boss goes “it won’t affect our trucks going to Boston it’ll blow right over…” said the same thing this morning during a meeting. 7-10 inches won’t affect a truck going south right?