What’s unique/unusual about where you live?
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PlentyofProtein00 wrote: »PlentyofProtein00 wrote: »If there's a tiny chance of snow we cancel everything. 1 year they decided to play the odds ...and snowmaggedon happened 😬 many people slept in gas stations or convenice stores over night.
Lol - it’s the same here - word of snow and everyone hits the Walmart’s to get all
The necessities just in case that in or two snows them in 😂
Can someone explain to me at what point snow storm, or any storm necessities became milk and bread? 🤦🏻♀️
📢 PSA...For reasons unknown southern power lines aren't built for accumulation. They are Cat 3 hurricane resistant, but a .10" of ice or snow and they're down. Please expect the milk you purchased in a panic to spoil. That is all. 📢
So we also enjoy good ole hurricane tropical storm days too. Power was out for us 3 days recently...got coolers and ice to try and preserve necessities like ketchup and beer.
Can confirm: We do this. Ice machines were out of ice and they were having to long-distance haul ice from neighboring states because so many of us were without power for a week or more. Generators are expensive, so most people don't own them.1 -
Kids who graduate from high school in town, with good enough grades, get their college paid for so long as it’s in-state7
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Sophisticatted_Gentlemanz wrote: »Kids who graduate from high school in town, with good enough grades, get their college paid for so long as it’s in-state
Wow! That’s great!2 -
You guys ever hear of Jumbo the elephant? We killed him with a locomotive.1
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I regularly encounter huge pine cones out on the trails, some even larger than this.They are from the Coulter pine which produces the heaviest cone of any pine tree and is only native to the Ca coast. The cones are also called “widowmakers”
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Not sure if it’s unique to where I live but when the long awaited rainy season finally begins it’s time for the newts to go find their mates and we get these signs in our regional parks:
These are the newts:
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RunsWithBees wrote: »I regularly encounter huge pine cones out on the trails, some even larger than this.They are from the Coulter pine which produces the heaviest cone of any pine tree and is only native to the Ca coast. The cones are also called “widowmakers”
As someone who has a fear of dying in a dumb way (you know, like from slapshot when you're enjoying prime seats at a hockey game), this one - the "widowmaker" - wouldn't be so bad 🤷🏾♀️2 -
Tfw you have two butcher shops in a 300m radius but both are halal and your favourite meat is pork
Merguez is pretty good, though (but a bit too spicy).2 -
Yoshiboobs wrote: »We have Spanish moss and gators. Well in my home town in SC. When I moved to NC I was shocked to find that they have neither.
Get out my swamp!
I didn't realize how beautiful it was until I left. The gators you know 😁🐊
@Yoshiboobs I have always thought you looked familiar; now I'm wonder if we haven't met at some point in time.
I grew up on a small farm in the midlands of SC. I think the thing about my hometown that stands out the most is the endless red clay fields that propagate everything from soybeans and tobacco to cotton and peaches. There are a few antebellum homes still around and there are now 4 stop lights instead of the 1 downtown. And as Yoshiboobs stated, the moss hanging from the trees amid the black water swamps reminiscent of scenes from The Notebook.1 -
We have zero Walmarts in our city. And our in state post high school education is paid for.4
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I am from Southern California, Los Angeles originally, but live in the Inland empire now. We have mountains, beach, forest, chaparral, and desert all within 90 min drive.
Where I live now we have burrowing owls which I think is super cool. You can also find almost any cuisine here since it is so diverse.
I am always in awe of Australia and New Zealand and hope to visit one day. I love how there are wild cockatoos and kakapo!2 -
GymGoddessGoals wrote: »Yoshiboobs wrote: »We have Spanish moss and gators. Well in my home town in SC. When I moved to NC I was shocked to find that they have neither.
Get out my swamp!
I didn't realize how beautiful it was until I left. The gators you know 😁🐊
@Yoshiboobs I have always thought you looked familiar; now I'm wonder if we haven't met at some point in time.
I grew up on a small farm in the midlands of SC. I think the thing about my hometown that stands out the most is the endless red clay fields that propagate everything from soybeans and tobacco to cotton and peaches. There are a few antebellum homes still around and there are now 4 stop lights instead of the 1 downtown. And as Yoshiboobs stated, the moss hanging from the trees amid the black water swamps reminiscent of scenes from The Notebook.
I was coastal, a small town close to Charleston. I live in fear of the day someone from real life reads the crap I post here 😂 Never really made it out of the general neighboring towns until heading to Charlotte so unless you were in the area it was my evil (or good) twin.2 -
I live in a place where one can buy pre-seasoned crawdads (crayfish) from nearly every supermarket, fishmonger and food market. Catfish is a common fish found in most supermarkets here and we have gumbo... on pizza.2
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Yoshiboobs wrote: »GymGoddessGoals wrote: »Yoshiboobs wrote: »We have Spanish moss and gators. Well in my home town in SC. When I moved to NC I was shocked to find that they have neither.
Get out my swamp!
I didn't realize how beautiful it was until I left. The gators you know 😁🐊
@Yoshiboobs I have always thought you looked familiar; now I'm wonder if we haven't met at some point in time.
I grew up on a small farm in the midlands of SC. I think the thing about my hometown that stands out the most is the endless red clay fields that propagate everything from soybeans and tobacco to cotton and peaches. There are a few antebellum homes still around and there are now 4 stop lights instead of the 1 downtown. And as Yoshiboobs stated, the moss hanging from the trees amid the black water swamps reminiscent of scenes from The Notebook.
I was coastal, a small town close to Charleston. I live in fear of the day someone from real life reads the crap I post here 😂 Never really made it out of the general neighboring towns until heading to Charlotte so unless you were in the area it was my evil (or good) twin.
I'm from a low country town as well. We also had a townhouse in Indian Trail/Matthews for about 5 or 6 yrs.1 -
The housewives here are lonely & bitter.4
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I live in a small, quiet, rural village...lots of little farms, horses, livestock, etc and we are surrounded on 3 sides by the 2 largest cities in the state...go South and you're in Albuquerque proper in about 10 minutes. Go North or West and you are in Rio Rancho proper in about 10 minutes. To our direct East is tribal land.3
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Motorsheen wrote: »The housewives here are lonely & bitter.
Low hanging fruit, my friend. Low hanging fruit.
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I have the Cradle of Mankind a few minutes drive from me. We can check out where Mrs Ples was discovered (the actual dig site has been preserved). That's pretty cool. We also have some awesome wildlife. Just please don't pet the lions. They are wild animals and carnivores7
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People here will bend over backwards for you.
Old boy with the firewood, we finally spoke. This that and the other about paying him. Never done business so he preferred cash or bank transfer. My credit union is a couple hours away. Told him I’d work in getting him cash.
Old boy calls back and said he would spot me a rick or half cord if I needed heat.
Never met old boy and he was willing to take my word at paying him so that I didn’t go cold.
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Versicolour wrote: »I have the Cradle of Mankind a few minutes drive from me. We can check out where Mrs Ples was discovered (the actual dig site has been preserved). That's pretty cool. We also have some awesome wildlife. Just please don't pet the lions. They are wild animals and carnivores
This is so cool, I'd love to see that dig site.. I watch a lot of archaeology shows.
I'll refrain from patting the lions 😁2
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