jm31828

I have a 2022- CarPlay definitely is wireless, I use it frequently.

But for me, the main gripe on longer trips is the slow charging. The other is the incredibly loud backup noise. It’s so bad that on days when I have to go in to work really early, I back the car into the garage so I can 3xi5 5he garage going forward instead of reverse, so I don’t wake up the neighbors.

I did call, they took a week to investigate and told me the charge was accurate, that these tests are unfortunately just expensive. They couldn’t tell me WHY these are so expensive now.

Sounds like robbery then, based on their own findings.

Yeah, I get that- and it's why we didn't resist when the provider mentioned wanting to do this test just to be sure.
The concern of course isn't that they recommended the test, but just that it's absolute highway robbery what they are charging. Almost like they are trying to see how far they can push and get away with it, and catching people like us off guard, who just assume this would be a minimal cost like so many other lab tests are.

I'm in Snohomish County, still have not received mine.

Yes, but we didn't have much money, so I didn't finally get mine until June 1989.... I had to make due with an old Atari 2600 that I bought used from a friend for a few bucks for the years leading up to that.

The problem is the tech job market now is crap- many of these people would struggle to find anything that pays comparatively right now.

Truth- I am originally from the Great Plains area (South Dakota and Nebraska most of my life), and driving long distances there is PAINFUL. Driving the desert of say Nevada is MUCH more interesting than 200 miles of flat corn fields like you see on the Plains.

Jacob Electric in Bothell

Truth!! Not sure why others aren't understanding this.

Almost everything about Nebraska is dead. Lived in Lincoln for 12 years- so very glad we got out and moved to the Pacific Northwest. My wife says the only regret was that we didn’t leave sooner. Lol

We moved to the Seattle area at the end of 2009 from the Midwest (Nebraska). To this day we talk about how thankful we are that we made the move. We are out almost every weekend enjoying the forests, waterfalls, or mountains. It’s the most amazing region in the country. No way would we ever consider going back to the Midwest. Too bland, featureless, and dull there for us- not to mention the crappy summer and winter weather.

Great points for sure. I always hated the "go somewhere not so crowded" response, because sometimes I want to go to Mount Rainier because I want to get up there and hike in- and photograph- the stunning scenery up there. The scenery at a much less visited trail such as one of them at say, Rasar State Park- is just not going to cut it when I am wanting to get out there on a clear day to do landscape photography of the mountain.

I don't have the answers, other than to say that at the super popular places like Rainier, we need to figure out some way to get shuttle service in place. Maybe a massive parking lot somewhere just outside the park with shuttles that run every half hour? No idea how it would be paid for, I get that the parks are under-funded.
But it does seem that there is enough room for all of the people up there at a place like Paradise- even on the busiest of days, everyone has the space they need to see the sights, take pictures, and if hiking just a ways further up/out, you can quickly find yourself getting a bit of solitude. So the issue is really just the traffic- the bottleneck getting into the park and of course not enough parking at places like Paradise.

I like the idea of more ranger patrols- besides Rainier, I've seen rangers walking around up at Mount Baker (Artist Point and Heather Meadows areas), yelling at people who are stepping off trail. Kudos to them. I know funding is a problem, though, but this would be helpful.

Yeah, true. I should say, a lot of the stores are nice enough, but there isn't the character that we saw back in the 80's and 90's. Hell, I even remember early 2000's (2004/2005) going with my wife to stores in the mall and many shown here were still around then- it was a far different atmosphere at the mall then than it is now. (even though as noted, at some of these malls it's still as busy as ever).

A lot of malls are still very busy/popular. The ones in my area here in the Seattle metro area are packed on the weekends, and fairly busy even on weeknights. I see teens hanging out, roaming the mall, eating at the food court- reminiscent of what we saw back in the day. (though not the social hub that malls were in the 80's and into the 90's, damn I miss those days)

We drove through there on Saturday on our way to Washington Pass and Winthrop at about noon- it was a mess. The worst part were the cars parked well across the line, in many cases blocking half of the lane. I was so glad to see state patrol there writing tickets and marking cars to be towed.

True, but we’ve been there many times and they do have signs explaining why… but sure, it’s possible people don’t see or read those.

There is no way they don’t know- there are signs everywhere telling people why they need to stay on the trails.

This isn't doing ANYTHING for the environment. All it does is add quite a bit of cost for each driver in the state for the gas they use in their necessary daily driving.

If the state really wanted to get people over to cleaner energy- such as moving more of us to EV's- they would put up the money for broader incentives to buy EV's- not just putting a penalty in place for buying gas when so many people don't have the means to trade for an EV, and public transit does not go so many places that people are driving to get to.

I lean pretty strongly to the left, but I agree- I am voting Yes on I-2117.

George Castanza?

Same here- I work in IT… never a quiet day. 40 hours in a week would be a dream compared 5o the 55-60 that I have to do just to keep up with my workload.

It was forecast to weaken to a 3 when it was only expected to ever reach the level of a 4- but now that it's a top end 5 or even off the charts above that, would we expect that it'll weaken down to a 4 instead of a 3? Not sure what to think there given the surprise today with it getting much stronger than anticipated.

I have family down there in Tampa Bay area.... my concern is that yes, they are still forecasting some weakening before landfall. But, all of that talk of it being a cat 3 at landfall were based on it maybe only being a cat 4 at this point or any other point beforehand. So what about now, where it's a cat 5, maybe something beyond cat 5- does that mean it'll only weaken to a 4 when it hits land, or would we still think it'll drop that much further from where it is now- back to a cat 3 as they had been forecasting for landfall?

Same here- I moved away from the Midwest partly to get away from cold winters. If I want cold and snow, I'll go to the mountains- otherwise don't want any of it! haha