Those grey skies do suck, at least here in Alaska we finally left the grey skies, now just have to deal with the fire skies, lots of lightning strike fires, but mostly small one for now. Hope your mother is fine, the weather may or may not improve but life will continue.
I have been trying PALnet out, I use my ALT account to vote only on the PAL site, it runs a bit slow compared to steemit but it is doable. My ALT account pretty much does nothing but vote. I did get my airdrop and power it up for this account, but I forget sometimes to use the #palnet tag on post, such is life.
Could be an interesting summer, people will either be pleased in two or three days, or not, with palnet. First payouts and all should be soon.