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Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: Loa on June 17, 2022, 04:48:03 PM
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Like in NZ I get alerts on my phone when there's an earthquake or volcanic activity nearby.
There's usually 5-7 earthquakes across the country per day but helpfully, there's a lot of activity in our local super volcano.
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I hear a lot of gunshot where I live. I'm so used to it I don't notice it any more. Shooting (as in, the sport) is a big part of the local economy here. Also a lot of military aeroplanes from the RAF bases nearby. Poor adult literacy.
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When I moved to our cul-de-sac the friendly new neighbours were welcoming but warned us of a newly-built house at the end that almost never got built due to controversy & concerns over the foundations being too close to an underground culvert...
Anyway, for as long as I can remember, there's always a water utility truck parked there some time during the week & water engineers doing "works"... I still do not know what the "issue" is...
I am used to it now, but when I used to work night shifts and had to sleep during the day - it was impossible!
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Farmers muck-spreading: so yesterday was he hottest day of the year (so far, in the UK) and I opened the door & took in a deep breath of the morning air only to realise that the farmers had spread fertiliser over their fields & the wind had carried the "delightful" aroma of poop across the miles and through our neighbourhood. Ah, it's that time of year again...
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People wearing whatever to cope with the heat. Seriously, the policy 'no shirt, no shoes, no service'? does not exist here. If I was braver, as a heavy person, I could go out in a bikini and not get a second glance.
Alligators. Not where I live now, but at my parents house. We had quite a few over the years in the swale in the backyard. Not very large ones, under four feet. One thing a lot of people don't know is how loud they are during mating season. They growl, splash, thrash, slap their heads and tails. At night during season it's all you could hear.
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Honestly, I could write a major television drama about the drug dealers two doors down and the vacant house directly behind me with squatters in it... I hate that I live a couple blocks away from a bike trail and I never walk it because of all the stray dogs and idiot druggies.
I wonder if I could go borrow some of Glitterball's neighbor's manure and make my area a little less palatable?
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I live less than a mile from a small airport that does tourist plane rides to bring in extra income during the nicer months. My house is right on the river, and it's probably quite pretty from the sky. So as early as 7am some mornings, I have to put up with low-flying airplanes over my house, waking up my kids. It's actually frightening sometimes...I've been outside and they sometimes fly so low they almost graze the tops of the trees.
I second the complaint about 'fresh' country air. My next door neighbor tries to grow a garden every year--I don't know why, because we live in the woods and don't get any sunlight, and he is unsuccessful every year. But he keeps trying it, which wouldn't bother me but for the fact that he dumps a bunch of manure on it, and it's right next to the property line, so it's a lot closer to our house than it is to his.
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Can't think of anything from where I'm living right now since I rarely leave the house but where I grew up they would broadcast sun delays on the radio as in giving caution to drivers because there was too much sunlight. Nowhere else I've lived has done that but I didn't think anything of it growing up so guess that's a thing I tolerated.
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Where I live tornado watches are so common that if you've been here for long you learn to ignore them because they happen so often. Tornado warnings however are a different matter and should always be heeded.
Ponyfan
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I FORGOT THE SEALS.
We have fur and leopard seals that sunbathe and breed in our town. When they come on shore on mass they STINK. Holy cow. Rotten fish smell for the whole day but they are both endangered AND the leopard seals get to be like a tonne.
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I've seen dolphins off the coast here. Our dolphins are apparently the northernmost pod of Bottlenose Dolphins in the world
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We have gunshot here too, in the fields behind the back lane. I am so not pro-gun, and yet I don't even think about it.
Low flying helicopters. We're not too far from a RAF base, but mostly it's the air ambulance, going to the hospital.
Geese. We have geese on the local ponds. Everyone stops for the geese. When the geese cross the road, everyone waits. The geese turn up on your garden? Well, tough. They're going to eat your daisies. They'll sometimes bring their babies to see you, too. They are so used to the people that you can walk past them and nod to them and they'll nod back and honk a greeting. The babies *run up* to people. I love the geese though some people don't. We used to have swans, but not any more, sadly. They used to scare people more, though they were fine.
Barbecues in summer. If it's not one neighbour it's another. The smoke comes in my window :(
Our one (Scottish) neighbour yelling at his dog to shut up. He's louder than the dog ever is. But he's not a bad guy, really.
Our other (South African) neighbour and his interesting ideas on gardening. (Who uses a pickaxe to remove bamboo?!)
The random appearance of a horse and trap past our home.
A bus that runs 9 times a day, total, and not on sundays.
The weird house down the close who, when they have a party, you can just hear weird giggling late into the night O.o.
The boy racer who keeps changing his car for a new one, and revving them up and down the drive.
Stuff in Welsh. I live on the English side of the border, which is about 40 mins away. But some mad person still wrote 'ARAF' on our road, which is the welsh for 'slow'. We also see ambwlans quite a lot, and sometimes heddlu (police) and post brenhinol (royal mail). Our trains are 50% run by the Welsh govt, and sometimes come into the station with the display stuck on the welsh name for the destination town, so knowing the welsh names for places is helpful.
...That's about it really.
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Honestly, I could write a major television drama about the drug dealers two doors down and the vacant house directly behind me with squatters in it... I hate that I live a couple blocks away from a bike trail and I never walk it because of all the stray dogs and idiot druggies.
I wonder if I could go borrow some of Glitterball's neighbor's manure and make my area a little less palatable?
Ick, I feel for you. I used to live next door to a drug dealer, there was a pot farm across the road and several half way houses for people just released from legal custody in the nearby streets. There was often high speed car chases around the neighbourhood, which were often shown on X-Cars. There was constant sound of ambulance, fire and police sirens. There was a lot of loitering, robbing and burgling and we once found a stash of weapons hidden behind our bins.
It was a stones throw away from a McVities factory and a brewery, so every Tuesday you'd get brewing smells and the rest of the time you got the smell of digestives being baked.
Love pkw xxx
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Pedestrian-unfriendly neighborhood design and behaviors. On ALL the streets in my neighborhood there is always at least one house leaving their car parked directly across the sidewalk. I always have to either cross the street or go up in their yard to go around the cars. Saw a wheelchair user just going down the road, I mean what choice do they have? And our bus stop has no bench or roof, it is just a sign stuck into the ground and that is it. Finally, there isn't a shop with fresh foods in walking distance, or even bicycling distance.
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FYI: Penguins also smell.
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Our bus stops are also just signs stuck in the pavement, although further up there is a shelter. One of them had a bus sign that was hanging at a dangerous angle for about three years. It's a miracle that a strong wind didn't blow it off and it didn't hurt someone. It's finally been replaced now.
On that same note, buses that don't stop at the stand the timetable or display says they should.
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I live in a sketchy neighborhood. I've heard gunshots twice since living here, one was over a car accident which I also heard, then there was yelling and finally someone shot a gun. I don't think it hurt anyone because I didn't read anything about it, so maybe it was shot into the air (which is its own scary thing). The second time was further away but I could also hear yelling.
Weapons are forbidden in the complex, as are drugs, but of course there are people who break those rules. There always is. My neighbor has a friend that will come by and park near the front of my building and they smoke weed in the car. The smell wafts up to my apartment. I hate that smell.
Regarding sidewalks - Where I grew up in Wisconsin, the sidewalks were built along with the roads, so they were nice and straight. There was a few spots in older neighborhoods where the sidewalk went around a tree, but mostly it was a smooth, straight path with square corners. Here in Florida where I live, shoulders on roads and sidewalks were an afterthought. A lot of roads don't have either one. When they put sidewalks in they follow the land. So they are curvy with ups and downs and the corners are round. That's only if you're lucky enough to have sidewalks.
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no mass transit. can't safely walk to any grocery stores, restaurants, or any other retail. There are some sidewalks but the store is miles away and getting there requires crossing a highway where the speed limit is 65mph. i also hate the weather. it's either too hot, too cold, or raining. we get a handful of tolerable days in the spring and fall.
there is construction noise right now because homes are still getting built. i support more home building but lack of affordable housing is an issue. i don't understand why people are against affordable housing. i think they're just mean and cruel. it's getting unaffordable especially with rising interest rates. i don't think i could afford to buy my house if i had to qualify for a loan today. we're already spending more than we really wanted to.
surprisingly i don't hear gunshots or anything like that. since Texas. i do live in a somewhat rural, but rapidly growing into suburban county and i see a lot of pro-gun, "come and take it" stickers on trucks and cars. sometimes flags with far right type messaging. there are also a couple of misguided billboards blaming Biden for gas prices. despite this i do occasionally see people with more inclusive messaging on their cars or lawns. also some of the towns had their first pride celebrations and they had good turnouts.
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My village has no traffic lights, so people just chance crossing the main street. A few years ago a boy was killed crossing at the pharmacy, where the road bends. Why don't we have a crossing yet???
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^ A busy intersection by my parent's house has no lights either. People are constantly getting into accidents there and I don't know how many pedestrians have been killed, a lot. Last year they put up a four way stop and added a turning lane, but it's still dangerous.
Florida is one of the most dangerous states for pedestrians and bicyclers.
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Ever since moving ~8 months ago, there's a train that apparently passes by somewhere near each morning and night. And by that, I mean at the hours in which NOBODY (except for me of course because I'm part opossum) is awake by choice. I've wondered how many people it wakes up each day... Probably none, but who knows.
Before that, it was living next to a walking talking ticking time bomb of a man, but that's a whole other story entirely.
I FORGOT THE SEALS.
We have fur and leopard seals that sunbathe and breed in our town. When they come on shore on mass they STINK. Holy cow. Rotten fish smell for the whole day but they are both endangered AND the leopard seals get to be like a tonne.
I would still like to see them! Even though my nose is particularly sensitive, I always adore seeing local wildlife, no matter what it is. Come summertime, deer are sometimes seen out in the fields or woods. Wild rabbits occasionally pop up too, along with ducks, geese and pelicans in the lakes. Wild turkeys also exist around here. But I've also spotted hawks more than once, and bald eagles on three different occasions. My favourite rare encounters though are the times a red fox trotted across the road right in front of my mom and I while we were driving home (she was on the phone talking to somebody and stopped mid sentence to tell the other person a fox just walked past lol), and the flock of turkey vultures picking at what I think was a deer carcass driving with my dad into another town.
Oh, and pheasants! Don't forget the pheasants.
Oh, the animal nerd that is myself could talk for hours about the creatures I've seen. Those ones were just around my area and slightly beyond; I haven't even mentioned the gigantic snapping turtle sitting on the road when my mom and I vacationed in the state below us.
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Ever since moving ~8 months ago, there's a train that apparently passes by somewhere near each morning and night. And by that, I mean at the hours in which NOBODY (except for me of course because I'm part opossum) is awake by choice. I've wondered how many people it wakes up each day... Probably none, but who knows.
Before that, it was living next to a walking talking ticking time bomb of a man, but that's a whole other story entirely.
I FORGOT THE SEALS.
We have fur and leopard seals that sunbathe and breed in our town. When they come on shore on mass they STINK. Holy cow. Rotten fish smell for the whole day but they are both endangered AND the leopard seals get to be like a tonne.
I would still like to see them!
Next time I'm down there I'll ask them to pose.
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Our other (South African) neighbour and his interesting ideas on gardening. (Who uses a pickaxe to remove bamboo?!)
We just had to buy a mattock for this job. It can be pretty hardcore problem to have in the garden! Possibly a handy guy to know... :blush:
@Loa we saw penguins on a telly program once about how they live in a town by the sea... they look very amusing and captivating! I'll take your word for it though. I have a very sensitive sense of smell.
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There are entire neighborhoods in San Antonio where the invasive bamboo has taken over. Every year my friend and his neighbors have to clear out spaces for their gardens, out of driveways and away from their homes. The fences have long since been hidden by bamboo forests.
I'm used to my neighbors and their gigantic trucks and the fact that they spend all day/night working on them even though the trucks are in perfect condition. I guess its their version of brushing pony hair.
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never thought about it before. but i can imagine penguins and seals would smell. they're cute on TV. i think i prefer TV animals without the smell.
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The sewers around here have a tendency to stink. Really, really badly. :X Don't even get me started on how much of a nightmare it was as a kid, trying to concentrate on school when the windows were wide open and the sewers were at their worst. *shudder* I dunno what's up with it. It's not all the time, just sometimes.
i think i prefer TV animals without the smell.
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Oh yeah. Speaking of smelly things. The water.
Florida, at least in smaller cities and places near the ocean and Gulf, has tap water you cannot drink! I mean, you can but it's not advisable. Often it smells like fish or has sand in it. Sometimes it smells strongly of sulfur. At my grandmother's place when I was a kid, I had to take baths and shower with sulfur water. We usually took showers at the beach instead. If that water smelled it was covered by the ocean scents. Most people buy water. When I moved I bought a filter that attaches right to the faucet so you can turn it on and have filtered tap water. I also live downtown, so the water is municipal instead of ground. It tastes good but sometimes it still smells fishy.
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blaming Biden for gas prices.
Huh? OK that's a new one on me. Communitites everywhere seem more divided so it's interesting that you see evidence for views on both ends of the spectrum even in such a conservative state. In my local area it looks like chocolate-box villages but people have this fake passive-agressive attitude where they talk up a good storm about doing charity work and like to show how virtuous they are, but they are really not nice people. For example, they drive dangerously and hate poor people.
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There are entire neighborhoods in San Antonio where the invasive bamboo has taken over.
Horrors! I knew it! It's started here too, I keep noticing it in ditches and central reservations. It's the reason we got our house cheap :)/ :(
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blaming Biden for gas prices.
Huh? OK that's a new one on me. Communitites everywhere seem more divided so it's interesting that you see evidence for views on both ends of the spectrum even in such a conservative state. In my local area it looks like chocolate-box villages but people have this fake passive-agressive attitude where they talk up a good storm about doing charity work and like to show how virtuous they are, but they are really not nice people. For example, they drive dangerously and hate poor people.
I actually blame most of my problems on Ronald Reagan so we're all pretty irrational down here in Texas. In all seriousness i think it's a similar mentality to blaming all of a sports team's problems on the coach or the star player. it's easy. people know who the president is. they become the face of whatever is going right or wrong.
IMO Texas politics are not well represented in a lot of media. most of the urban areas and even more suburban areas are pretty liberal. statewide we're ruled by more and more extreme conservative politicians. but statewide elections here are closer than they used to be. i don't think we can vote all of our problems away. Texas politics is ruled by a few people with a lot of money. it's also heavily influenced by oil and gas. so many people work in oil and gas and adjacent industry. and there are a lot of keep taxes low, pro-business types who vote Republican. as if Dems aren't just as influenced by big business. i remain hopeful but Texas keeps disappointing me. i really want to leave but family obligations keep me here for now.
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I actually blame most of my problems on Ronald Reagan so we're all pretty irrational down here in Texas. In all seriousness i think it's a similar mentality to blaming all of a sports team's problems on the coach or the star player. it's easy. people know who the president is. they become the face of whatever is going right or wrong.
IMO Texas politics are not well represented in a lot of media. most of the urban areas and even more suburban areas are pretty liberal. statewide we're ruled by more and more extreme conservative politicians. but statewide elections here are closer than they used to be. i don't think we can vote all of our problems away. Texas politics is ruled by a few people with a lot of money. it's also heavily influenced by oil and gas. so many people work in oil and gas and adjacent industry. and there are a lot of keep taxes low, pro-business types who vote Republican. as if Dems aren't just as influenced by big business. i remain hopeful but Texas keeps disappointing me. i really want to leave but family obligations keep me here for now.
TBH this doesn't surprise me because oftentimes, I've found that the typical citizen of a given state or country or other area disagrees with the big wigs in charge, even if only a little bit. But also, the stereotype that the South is full of close minded Bible-thumpers and the North is where all the 'modern' minded people live is alive and well. I'm in the Midwest in a town that is more right-minded, if you get my drift, while I've heard of thriving minority communities on the other end of the USA- including in Texas, your state! (I seem to have a lot of friends in/from Texas, I don't know why...)
Which brings me to my second contribution - I don't know about y'all but some places still have signage or writing cheering on Trump; some have been there since all the way back in 2016. Some folks still have bumper stickers from that time, or from the 2020 election. Now I understand disappointment if your "side" didn't "win" but seriously? Why would you want to keep that stuff around that long? I've never heard or seen this sort of thing outside Trump, it'd be like if I had a sign in my front yard urging my neighbors to vote for Eisenhower. In 2022! Idungeddit.
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I actually blame most of my problems on Ronald Reagan so we're all pretty irrational down here in Texas. In all seriousness i think it's a similar mentality to blaming all of a sports team's problems on the coach or the star player. it's easy. people know who the president is. they become the face of whatever is going right or wrong.
IMO Texas politics are not well represented in a lot of media. most of the urban areas and even more suburban areas are pretty liberal. statewide we're ruled by more and more extreme conservative politicians. but statewide elections here are closer than they used to be. i don't think we can vote all of our problems away. Texas politics is ruled by a few people with a lot of money. it's also heavily influenced by oil and gas. so many people work in oil and gas and adjacent industry. and there are a lot of keep taxes low, pro-business types who vote Republican. as if Dems aren't just as influenced by big business. i remain hopeful but Texas keeps disappointing me. i really want to leave but family obligations keep me here for now.
TBH this doesn't surprise me because oftentimes, I've found that the typical citizen of a given state or country or other area disagrees with the big wigs in charge, even if only a little bit. But also, the stereotype that the South is full of close minded Bible-thumpers and the North is where all the 'modern' minded people live is alive and well. I'm in the Midwest in a town that is more right-minded, if you get my drift, while I've heard of thriving minority communities on the other end of the USA- including in Texas, your state! (I seem to have a lot of friends in/from Texas, I don't know why...)
Which brings me to my second contribution - I don't know about y'all but some places still have signage or writing cheering on Trump; some have been there since all the way back in 2016. Some folks still have bumper stickers from that time, or from the 2020 election. Now I understand disappointment if your "side" didn't "win" but seriously? Why would you want to keep that stuff around that long? I've never heard or seen this sort of thing outside Trump, it'd be like if I had a sign in my front yard urging my neighbors to vote for Eisenhower. In 2022! Idungeddit.
Have you seen the episode of Black Mirror titled The Waldo Moment? Look at the date before you watch it. My take: Trump became a 'new media' construct and he still has fans I guess.
Apologies for wandering off topic!
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There are a few "crazy cars" in my town. One has got stickers and signs all over it about Jesus. One is all Illuminati and New World Order. One is covered in Trump stuff. In fact, the Trump car was here in my apartment complex a few weeks ago. I think the person(s) must have been lost or visiting because I had never seen it here before or after. I mostly see them when I'm out with someone (my dad or niece). I've seen all three in the Walmart parking lot through the years.
There is also a cool red car that has a black dragon painted on the hood :D
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i saw a motor home with Kraken (as in the lawyer who tried to overturn the presidential election) and other conspiracy nonsense stickers a while back. it's one of the stranger "crazy cars"
i haven't really seen any trump signs or flags since the election was called. the neighborhood guy who flies "don't tread on me" and come and take it type flags took the trump flags down after the election was called. i did see a couple of signs last time we drove to Houston. they were on the fences of some ranches.
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There’s a few weird things where I live now, but nothing compares to some of the stuff that went down in my childhood neighborhood. My parents still live there, and it’s still nuts.
I used to live in one of the most notorious cities in this country, and everybody has some stories.
1) A house exploded one day a couple blocks from me. It was during summer break, so I was home that day. I felt it more than saw it, but I saw the immediate aftermath. A gas line blew, and the house disintegrated. All that was left was a smoking crater, and scorch marks on all the surrounding buildings and cars. The owner was away in the hospital, so nobody got directly hurt, but the residents of the old folks home across the street got a big scare.
2) The house across the street from me was a crack house. It would regularly get busted. The first time I saw it was my 16th birthday. It happened regularly after that. The street would be filled with the flashing lights of the cop cars, and it became just another thing. Honestly, the people who lived their kept to themselves the rest of the time.
3) The local bowling alley closed down, and the building sat empty for years. It became another drug dealer meeting place. Someone bought it and turned it into a supermarket. This upset the local dealers, and that supermarket was burned down. Twice. The third attempt at business survived. Apparently the dealers liked dollar stores more than supermarkets.
4) There was a small building next to the convenience store at the end of my street. It wasn’t very big, and it was completely unmarked. It was just this small, unmarked grey building with a tiny parking lot attached. It was some kind of mental institution. Nobody knew too much about what went on in there, but there were a few patients kept in residence, and probably some outpatient visits. The whole neighborhood knew about that aspect because every Saturday morning they’d get a few hours of freedom to roam the neighborhood. Every Saturday I’d get woken up by someone running up and down the street, screaming conspiracy theories and other gibberish for a couple of hours. They’d be rounded up again by 10am or so, and there wouldn’t be a peep from the building until next week.
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the fact in the summer the entire town will sometime reek of dog poop. only its not dog poop you're smelling. its the feed yard and the fermenting feed and the fermenting silage and milo. and the smell can get rather ripe as we have feed yards on three sides of the town =not right next to but when the wind hits right bleeeeech we also have a sale barn in town and that doesn't help the smell.
if you hear a mooing noise at night? its a 50/50 toss on either a dirt bike or an actual cow
one i'm still trying to get used to? how everyone here says taste instead of smell when describing a scent
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one i'm still trying to get used to? how everyone here says taste instead of smell when describing a scent
Maybe you're not in Kansas anymore?! Sorry, bad joke.
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1) A house exploded one day a couple blocks from me. It was during summer break, so I was home that day. I felt it more than saw it, but I saw the immediate aftermath. A gas line blew, and the house disintegrated. All that was left was a smoking crater, and scorch marks on all the surrounding buildings and cars. The owner was away in the hospital, so nobody got directly hurt, but the residents of the old folks home across the street got a big scare.
The same thing happened in the town I grew up in! I was about 5 years old and was playing on the floor when it rolled underneath me. I don't remember hearing anything, but I sure remember that feeling. The neighbors were walking toward one end of the block and my mom took me and we went with them. It was the house at the T intersection behind us. I clearly remember standing with my mom's hands on my shoulders and I was staring at a janitors' sink in the middle of the road. There was a fireball in the sky and a huge crater where the house was. Just like in your story, no one was home when it happened so no one was hurt.
I asked my mom what had happened and she told me the stove exploded. That started an extreme phobia of stoves and other appliances for me that exists to this day.
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Sudden, drastic weather changes during the winter.
I will never forget in January of 2008 there was a day that got up into the 80s. The next morning I woke up to snow on the ground.
In the western part of the state, this is more common. One time they were in the 90s and under an Ice Storm Warning for the next day.
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1) A house exploded one day a couple blocks from me. It was during summer break, so I was home that day. I felt it more than saw it, but I saw the immediate aftermath. A gas line blew, and the house disintegrated. All that was left was a smoking crater, and scorch marks on all the surrounding buildings and cars. The owner was away in the hospital, so nobody got directly hurt, but the residents of the old folks home across the street got a big scare.
The same thing happened in the town I grew up in! I was about 5 years old and was playing on the floor when it rolled underneath me. I don't remember hearing anything, but I sure remember that feeling. The neighbors were walking toward one end of the block and my mom took me and we went with them. It was the house at the T intersection behind us. I clearly remember standing with my mom's hands on my shoulders and I was staring at a janitors' sink in the middle of the road. There was a fireball in the sky and a huge crater where the house was. Just like in your story, no one was home when it happened so no one was hurt.
I asked my mom what had happened and she told me the stove exploded. That started an extreme phobia of stoves and other appliances for me that exists to this day.
8 or 9 years ago when I was living out west, a house exploded a couple blocks away from my work. I guess some bored college kids were sitting around smoking weed and trying to light their dog's farts. No joke. I guess there was a gas leak in the house or something. They were blown out of the upper duplex they were in, but not seriously injured, somehow.
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Wow, those house exploding stories are horrifying. I'm glad nobody got hurt but DANG imagine the owners coming home to that! I can't imagine the devastation they would feel; I sure hope they were able to find somewhere to stay after that. Now I've got another thing to worry about happening to my new place, where I finally get to display all my ponies and stuff.... >.>
one i'm still trying to get used to? how everyone here says taste instead of smell when describing a scent
My mom calls scents "flavours" sometimes, I don't think it's a regional thing though, she's just weird like that.
No judgement obviously because I'm equally weird, just in different ways! hahahahaha
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Those house explosion stories are something else. :shocked:
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E-scooters weaving wildly through traffic!
vs really loud performance cars and trucks with modifications to make them even really louder! (yes I said it that way on purpose XD)
a 10-day long party involving Western Expansionism stuff - cowboys, country music, agriculture,and the rodeo. YMMV when it comes to enjoying a "state fair" or a carnival. This year's special food is .... Kraft macaroni and cheese soft serve. YES. the mac & cheese sauce packet cold, mixed up in dairy dessert. Where is my barfing emoji
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E-scooters weaving wildly through traffic!
vs really loud performance cars and trucks with modifications to make them even really louder! (yes I said it that way on purpose XD)
a 10-day long party involving Western Expansionism stuff - cowboys, country music, agriculture,and the rodeo. YMMV when it comes to enjoying a "state fair" or a carnival. This year's special food is .... Kraft macaroni and cheese soft serve. YES. the mac & cheese sauce packet cold, mixed up in dairy dessert. Where is my barfing emoji
Wow. I just had to read that 3 x to make sure I understood it correctly. I still don't understand it. I understand cheese in a dessert, that is very Italian. But the words 'packet' and 'soft serve' really stood out.
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I thought of another thing. Turtles and tortoise on the road.
It's common and expected to stop traffic to help a turtle or tortoise across the road. You always take them in the direction they were heading. They sometimes need to cross streets to get to a new water source, or in the case of tortoise, they're just traveling. Turtles are way more common. There are some streets that have turtle crossing signs. There is also duck crossings and Sandhill crane crossings. Sandhills are illegal to kill, even in an accident and I think almost every turtle is protected too. Not sure about the ducks.
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I thought of another thing. Turtles and tortoise on the road.
It's common and expected to stop traffic to help a turtle or tortoise across the road. You always take them in the direction they were heading. They sometimes need to cross streets to get to a new water source, or in the case of tortoise, they're just traveling. Turtles are way more common. There are some streets that have turtle crossing signs. There is also duck crossings and Sandhill crane crossings. Sandhills are illegal to kill, even in an accident and I think almost every turtle is protected too. Not sure about the ducks.
I'm glad people help them. I actually cry when I see turtles smashed in the road. You don't see it super often here, only a couple of times a year, but it makes me so upset that people around here won't stop to move them off the road.
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I thought of another thing. Turtles and tortoise on the road.
It's common and expected to stop traffic to help a turtle or tortoise across the road. You always take them in the direction they were heading. They sometimes need to cross streets to get to a new water source, or in the case of tortoise, they're just traveling. Turtles are way more common. There are some streets that have turtle crossing signs. There is also duck crossings and Sandhill crane crossings. Sandhills are illegal to kill, even in an accident and I think almost every turtle is protected too. Not sure about the ducks.
Seconded here. I've seen my fair share of shelled friends on the road both alive and dead, I would hope that any of them that do get hit are accidental casualities but I just don't trust people. I remember one time at my old place a turtle was chilling on the road in front of our house and we saw some jerk speed right over him! He must not have been hurt that bad though, because when we looked again 10 min later he was gone. I like to think the hit just stunned him a little and he booked it after he realized what happened.
Red eared sliders are probably the most common turtle in my part of the world, but i've seen my fair share of snappers too. I still regret not taking pictures of the huge one I saw vacationing down south; I swear that thing was the size of a beagle.
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You will still see them hit occasionally, which I find ridiculous. It's not like it jumped out in front of the car, and how can you not see a giant turtle in the road??? This didn't happen in Florida... I think it was South Carolina, but a 400lb female was struck by a car and died but whoever was there afterward was able to save her eggs and the eggs were taken care of and hatched. But really. 400lbs? And you couldn't avoid it? I hope whoever hit her had damages to the vehicle.
More weird animal stuff - it's not unusual to be approached by wild dolphins or manatees. Especially if you have something shiny on you. I think in both cases they are curious. It's illegal to interact with most wild marine mammals, but if they come up to you, it's hard to ignore them :P
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Yeah, how do you not see a 400lb tortoise in the road? That's just insane. :blink: I'm glad someone was able to save her eggs.
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Deer weigh less and cars get totaled when they hit deer. i'm sure the car was pretty messed up. do they know if it was at night? Poor tortoise.
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Yes, it was at night. She was on her way to a beach to lay her eggs. It's one of those cases where a road should not be there.
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Yeah, how do you not see a 400lb tortoise in the road? That's just insane. :blink: I'm glad someone was able to save her eggs.
People see dogs, deer, and other critters in the road and can't always avoid them. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just pointing out that a lot of times it probably was an unfortunate accident.
Post Merge: July 01, 2022, 09:30:46 AM
Yes, it was at night. She was on her way to a beach to lay her eggs. It's one of those cases where a road should not be there.
Agree that the road should not be there.
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This is also hyper common here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRKRLtz8rEQ
But the mobs can go for miles, depending on where they are going.
Oh, and the native parrots who destroy cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBdvRCkCNfo
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Kea! They're so silly :lol: