Whooooshing past

The latest public advisory from the National Weather Service regarding Tropical Storm Elsa:
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I'm on the rainy side. I'm also at the top of a hill, so flash flooding is not a personal risk.

Letting Elsa go

Elsa is now post-tropical, and is leaving the building:
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As predicted, I received relatively little wind, but copious amounts of rain. Lots of puddles on the local roads. The Sudbury River is flooding, and the Assabet is likely to flood in the next little while.

Local COVID-19 updates

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Ouch. The good news is we get another zero-death day, and we saw a drop in total hospitalizations. The bad news is the big jump in newly reported confirmed cases; today's report of 169 new cases is the biggest single-day number since June 5, and that total doesn't include the 32 probable cases. Additional bad news comes from the jumps in the seven-day averages for cases and percent-positive. We are now above the Lowest Observed Values for three of the four seven-day averages; the only exception is that for hospitalizations, which is very much a trailing indicator of the progress of the pandemic.

I have yet to see any news coverage talking about these rising case numbers. But I'm getting rather concerned. Last year, around this time, we started seeing a slow climb in statewide case counts which eventually led to the nasty surge of the fall and winter. This year, we've got lots of folks vaccinated, but we've also discarded pretty much every non-pharmaceutical intervention in the book.

The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing zero active and 981 cumulative cases as of July 8. There have been no new cases shown on this dashboard since June 2, over a month ago. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 11:45AM on May 28, 2021 reported 978 cumulative cases with 3 individuals in isolation, 943 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.