Originally Posted by Gerco

I don't know much, but I do know that I have not seen 6+ dollar gas this summer. Things "seem" to actually be picking up around here. There is also a calm that I have not seen in a long time. If you head down to the local hardware store,(the local hangout for the older locals) No one is up in arms, bitching about all the stuff they where bitching about under bush etc... all of a sudden the topics are more about local life again, fishing, how the families doing etc.

Using that as kind of a "happy meter" I would say that there has been improvement.