One of my sisters, a Midwesterner like me, married a Southern man and spent most of her adult life in the CST part of Florida. Her accent was as southern-fried as they get.
At the same time another sister moved with her Midwestern husband to South Florida and lived there for 20 years without picking up even a hint of a local accent. In fact her youngest son, who was born in Florida and has spent his whole life there and has only been up north for very brief visits, has a Midwestern accent, just like his older siblings. (They moved with their parents to Florida when they were still babies and grew up there as well, yet they all speak with the same Great Lakes region accent as Mom and Dad. The older ones do not even consider themselves to be Southerners, even though they all grew up in and continue to live in the South.)
That you said "on Paumanok" shows the influence still lingers... outsiders tend to say "in." We also stand on line, not in one....a locution that will never leave me, no matter where I live.
Whoever is in charge of zoning really dropped the ball over the past 3 decades in San Antone and Houston, allowing developers to buy up flood plain and build on it....exactly like Nawlins where densely built burbs were 12-20 feet below sea level.
I'll be interested to see what happens once the water recedes. Will the city step in like they did in Nawlins, closing flood plain areas, requiring homes built to be elevated a specified height?
Never. Houston does not have zoning and is proud of it. After Tropical Storm Allison flooded Houston the Corps of Engineers published a new flood plane map. The Houston realtors went nuts, and the county published its own map with less property in the danger zones. There are parts of Houston where you can't buy flood insurance.NOLA is a little more realiztic with flooding. They use canals and pumps to rid the city of water. NOLA has been below sea level for 300 years.Houston is short on canals and has no pumps. The freeway system was designed to be a drainage system for high water. Less water goes in the neighborhoods, but moving from neighboorhood to neighborhood is impossible, as is evacuating the city.
Yes. SBU '78. I go back to when SBU's football team was a "club" (student-run, no official sanction or sponsorship from the school) and was called the Patriots. (It must have been a long journey to become the Div. I Seawolves.)
It doesn't seem like it was all that long ago that I had to get on line and wait for my turn to go online.
I took that quiz awhile ago and my results indicated that my manner of speaking was most similar to people from Detroit, Grand Rapids (MI) and Buffalo. Which was so eerily accurate that it was scary -- I grew up in those three cities! (Mainly in Detroit.)
SBU '95!! And a townie also too. That Seawolves thing is still a mystery - the question "what the fuck is a seawolf?" is still a popular one at local bars - one for which we may thank Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny.
IK,R? Poor Hillary! I hope she didn't see that segment. The poor delicate flower will probably reconsider running for president after being attacked so thoroughly and intelligently by three of the most admired journalists in the country.
I've changed my hair style accent so many times now,I don't know what I look sound like.
"I say, hosers, ¡Hola!, y'all!"
One of my sisters, a Midwesterner like me, married a Southern man and spent most of her adult life in the CST part of Florida. Her accent was as southern-fried as they get.
At the same time another sister moved with her Midwestern husband to South Florida and lived there for 20 years without picking up even a hint of a local accent. In fact her youngest son, who was born in Florida and has spent his whole life there and has only been up north for very brief visits, has a Midwestern accent, just like his older siblings. (They moved with their parents to Florida when they were still babies and grew up there as well, yet they all speak with the same Great Lakes region accent as Mom and Dad. The older ones do not even consider themselves to be Southerners, even though they all grew up in and continue to live in the South.)
I don't think that's fake though. I think it's authentic.
My condolences on the floods.
Woot!! Stony Brook?
That you said "on Paumanok" shows the influence still lingers... outsiders tend to say "in." We also stand on line, not in one....a locution that will never leave me, no matter where I live.
Thank you. It is bad. Death toll now 20 and still finding bodies.
Smartphone, and the chip the CIA put in my brain :)
Whoever is in charge of zoning really dropped the ball over the past 3 decades in San Antone and Houston, allowing developers to buy up flood plain and build on it....exactly like Nawlins where densely built burbs were 12-20 feet below sea level.
I'll be interested to see what happens once the water recedes. Will the city step in like they did in Nawlins, closing flood plain areas, requiring homes built to be elevated a specified height?
Stay tuned.............
Never. Houston does not have zoning and is proud of it. After Tropical Storm Allison flooded Houston the Corps of Engineers published a new flood plane map. The Houston realtors went nuts, and the county published its own map with less property in the danger zones. There are parts of Houston where you can't buy flood insurance.NOLA is a little more realiztic with flooding. They use canals and pumps to rid the city of water. NOLA has been below sea level for 300 years.Houston is short on canals and has no pumps. The freeway system was designed to be a drainage system for high water. Less water goes in the neighborhoods, but moving from neighboorhood to neighborhood is impossible, as is evacuating the city.
Yes. SBU '78. I go back to when SBU's football team was a "club" (student-run, no official sanction or sponsorship from the school) and was called the Patriots. (It must have been a long journey to become the Div. I Seawolves.)
It doesn't seem like it was all that long ago that I had to get on line and wait for my turn to go online.
I took that quiz awhile ago and my results indicated that my manner of speaking was most similar to people from Detroit, Grand Rapids (MI) and Buffalo. Which was so eerily accurate that it was scary -- I grew up in those three cities! (Mainly in Detroit.)
SBU '95!! And a townie also too. That Seawolves thing is still a mystery - the question "what the fuck is a seawolf?" is still a popular one at local bars - one for which we may thank Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny.
She didn't have it in her earlier Alaska speeches.
IK,R? Poor Hillary! I hope she didn't see that segment. The poor delicate flower will probably reconsider running for president after being attacked so thoroughly and intelligently by three of the most admired journalists in the country.
I was born a Noo Yawka - worse yet, a Lawn Guylanda - and one I remain (albeit without either of those accents). That said...GEAUX TIGERS indeeeeeed!!