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Here’s some video taken today of the old shipwreck that was discovered over the weekend along #Nantucket’s south shore:
.@EganMaritime Institute is looking into getting a carbon date on the wood to get a better idea of the age of the wreck to start its research.

The organization is advising island residents that they should not disturb the wreck, take any pieces away, or dig further into the dune
According to @EganMaritime, "treacherous shoals and inclement weather led to over 750 shipwrecks in the island's waters. As a result, the area was often called 'a graveyard of the Atlantic'."
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An investigation into the fire that consumed five rental vehicles that had been used by Secret Service agents during President Biden’s visit to the island has determined the blaze was not suspicious, according to #Nantucket Fire Chief Michael Cranson.
While the official cause is undetermined, officials have focused on a white Ford Expedition as the initial source of the fire. That vehicle was under a safety recall by the manufacturer due to a faulty battery junction box that has caused car fires elsewhere.
While it had been scheduled for service under the recall, sources said, the Expedition had not yet been repaired.

Here’s that recall: ford.com/support/how-to…
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A large car fire involving multiple rental vehicles at Nantucket Memorial Airport is now out. There were no injuries reported but at least four cars sustained significant damage. #nantucket
The fire was just 40 feet away from the airport’s 25,000-gallon jet fuel tanks
These are the rental vehicles that were facing each other and had their front ends totaled by the fire. Five are being towed away:

• Chevy Suburban
• Ford Explorer
• Infiniti QX80
• Ford Expedition
• Jeep Gladiator
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1. We had gone to #Nantucket for a family August vacation. Our boys were about 3 and 4. When we left, we detoured through #Boston to take them to a #RedSox game. The plane was a "puddle-jumper" small twin-turbo-prop aircraft. The flight to Boston was bumpy.
2. As the plane was violently bouncing around people on it were clutching their armrests for dear-life while my oldest boy was standing up taking the whole thing in like he was on an amusement park ride. Then, out of the blue he shouted, "Mayday Mayday Mayday, We're going in!"
3. A man seated behind us who made for possibly a WWII or Korea era vet looked like he'd touched a live wire and shouted, "Will you shut that f*cking kid up?" And then, without any input from me, my son sat back
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A deadly (hate) crime by an anti-Trump, pro-BLM, repeat violent supremacist is watered down to an out of control car killing people. Meanwhile, half the country still dosn’t know the truth about “fine people on both sides.”

Yet Shapiro, etc think that tweets are way Trump lost.
Few people grasp what this level of propaganda means for a presidency (heat, statements, visits and resignations); sure so in terms of elections.

A made up “fine people” scandal for one POTUS; deadly hate attack watered down to an accident for another POTUS. Can’t quantify this.
Was Biden asked to disavow the deadly attack from a militant anti-Trumper?

Was BLM asked to disavow his actions since he held BLM-aligned views?

Did Big Media/Dems take heat for making the #RittenhouseVerdict about BLM which may have helped trigger the attack 2 days later?
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Morning @tedcruz —I know facts are foreign in your office BUT #Nantucket public schools are now majority minority. “The transformation has been driven largely by families arriving on the island from Central America, in particular El Salvador” n-magazine.com/learning-curve/
Nantucket has a long history of welcoming people from all backgrounds. Including present day— “Today, more than eleven different languages and seventeen different countries are represented within Nantucket’s schools.”
Nantucket also has a long history of being on the right side of history yesterdaysisland.com/0806201512-fre…
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With Tropical Storm Henri's projected path taking it close to #Nantucket by early Sunday morning, Nantucket Harbormaster Sheila Lucey is planning to vacate and close the town pier by Saturday, asking all boats anchored in the harbor to be pulled from the water or moved elsewhere.
"We're expecting really strong north and northeast winds, which is the worst direction for Nantucket Harbor. We know we'll have astronomical high tides, and with a northeast wind, the tide doesn't go out. We're we're expecting high tides, flooding, and many issues,” Lucey said.
At the Children’s Beach Boat ramp Thursday afternoon, Juan Manuel Acosta of Glyn’s Marine said he and the team would be pulling boats until dark.

By 1pm there were community service officers directing traffic and a line of trucks with boat trailers waiting to haul out
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The Concord project opted to go with Solar (PV) connected to an energy storage system (battery storage) in lieu of a backup generator.

This system has been designed to keep the critical loads for the home operational even if the utility power is knocked out.
This includes the backup heating and domestic hot water system (gas boiler with radiant floor heat + indirect hot water tank), the refrigerator, freezer, microwave, TV/WiFi, lighting and receptacles in strategic areas.
The Generac PwrCell provides 18 kWh of battery storage in a single cabinet, and up to 9 kW of continuous power output, enough to power the critical loads for extended periods of time. It can also be expanded to 36 kWh of battery storage in the future should it ever be needed.
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1. The nitwits who answered Trump's call for armed insurrection are likely scrubbing their online lives but it's too late. @FBI has evidence that can turn this armed terrorist threat into an army of disarmed criminal defendants in shackles held without bail on 20 year felonies
2. The #Kremlin infested @NRA has set up the mother of all gun-nut round ups. The honest loyal gun owners have nothing to fear. I'll support more rational #NFA regulations for the loyal gun owners but full background checks and no more gun-show loophole are certainly coming.
3. The armed seditious conspirators need to run and hide but it won't save them if they don't stop their criminal conduct. Just go home and put your guns in your safe and save your family.

Fun Fact: I came up with the settlement of the #RubyRidge civil case while on vacation in
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1/ A few quick notes on Trump's desperate move today to suspend most non-immigrant labor visas, starting with this:

It's a proclamation, not an executive order.

Is there a difference? Not really! Does it matter? No. Trump sure does love his proclamations though!
2/ First, the suspension of new immigrant visas (the basis for greencards) from April is extended, bc nothing says "we love immigrants, so long as they do it the right way!" like slamming the door on the "right way" for people who have already been waiting for months, if not yrs
3/ This thing is in effect until the end of 2020, at which point the administration is delusionally "assuming the conclusion of the economic contraction" even as we're facing down the barrel of a second wave, record mass unemployment, and an economy in freefall
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