Shavonn Smith and daughter in front of partly-built home Shavonn Smith is a new homeonwner in Topeka, Kansas -- or will be, once her house, built by Habitat for Humanity, is finished. Her family's very first "welcome" to her new neighborhood, on August 12, was full of exactly the kind of friendliness America is famous for: Some asshole
There is nothing that strikes fear in your heart like a tornado siren going off. Especially at night. It means you have anywhere from 0-20 minutes to get you and anything you may want to keep into the basement. In my case, it involves herding cats. You left coasters are lucky, you don't get too many tornadoes. They're only slightly more predictable than earthquakes.
A lot of places in tornado country can't have basements because the soil type won't allow a basement, or the water table is too high. Those folks usually get the waterproof, thick steel type of tornado shelter. Some of the houses on my street don't have basements, or tornado shelters, so they'll run to a neighbor's house when the sirens go off.
I don't mean there was anything wrong with ranch houses. Well, let me admit that I was coming from where there were old houses that were nice-- like the one we'd just left-- so I felt more annoyed that, in California, everything old had vanished, everything new was ordinary, and the only people visible outdoors were Latino men in pick-up trucks, come to do the yard or install the granite. Where did the other young mothers go for fun? NORDSTROM. However, that's just one town. Go through the tunnel and there's Oakland, there's Berkeley, there's SF! Sorry to digress, but it really is a funny place.
Though it is true that the Midwest has a history of racism (the Klan owned and operated a local movie theater through the '30s) the young generations are nowhere near as racist as their forebears.
I moved there right after, and also right after a plane had crashed into that mall in Concord. But those things never happened again. I didn't to that mall a second time you know, because apart from the plane thing, on the second floor gallery, the railings were exactly the right space apart for toddlers to squeeze in between them and fall through, once they'd deliberately dropped their little car. You know, you can try to always take the new tube in the tunnel where nothing bad has happened. I bet this is boring people from other regions.
Is that conjecture or opinion ?
There is nothing that strikes fear in your heart like a tornado siren going off. Especially at night. It means you have anywhere from 0-20 minutes to get you and anything you may want to keep into the basement. In my case, it involves herding cats. You left coasters are lucky, you don't get too many tornadoes. They're only slightly more predictable than earthquakes.
A lot of places in tornado country can't have basements because the soil type won't allow a basement, or the water table is too high. Those folks usually get the waterproof, thick steel type of tornado shelter. Some of the houses on my street don't have basements, or tornado shelters, so they'll run to a neighbor's house when the sirens go off.
Good to know!
I don't mean there was anything wrong with ranch houses. Well, let me admit that I was coming from where there were old houses that were nice-- like the one we'd just left-- so I felt more annoyed that, in California, everything old had vanished, everything new was ordinary, and the only people visible outdoors were Latino men in pick-up trucks, come to do the yard or install the granite. Where did the other young mothers go for fun? NORDSTROM. However, that's just one town. Go through the tunnel and there's Oakland, there's Berkeley, there's SF! Sorry to digress, but it really is a funny place.
I need to visit. California seems like another country, and I haven't seen it yet.
Some ignorant, hateful, fool showed up late to the party.I bet whoever did it lives in his Mom's basement and has no friends.
It's so beautiful, physically, and that is an irresistible thing. Many more smiling people too. It's just that way.So I hope you'll visit.
S'okay, I adore you!
Unfortunately, everyone in the neighborhood knows who did it and thinks the vandal is a hero.
Guaranteed.
I like Carter. Habitat homes prove that this country ISN'T hopeless.Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundum
that Caldicott tunnel still scares me after the horrible accident inside years ago.
Nice "saddles" riff, Dok.
I now officially love you.
Though it is true that the Midwest has a history of racism (the Klan owned and operated a local movie theater through the '30s) the young generations are nowhere near as racist as their forebears.
I moved there right after, and also right after a plane had crashed into that mall in Concord. But those things never happened again. I didn't to that mall a second time you know, because apart from the plane thing, on the second floor gallery, the railings were exactly the right space apart for toddlers to squeeze in between them and fall through, once they'd deliberately dropped their little car. You know, you can try to always take the new tube in the tunnel where nothing bad has happened. I bet this is boring people from other regions.