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We get home some times in time to see Jay Leno, who does "headlines". From time to time he uses small town newspapers, one I liked, paraphrased:

2:15 AM Ms. Jones calls reporting a light on in her kitchen, probable prowler.
2:18 AM Police arrive at Jones house, see light in kitchen, find Mr. Jones retrieving jelly from refrigerator.

Jay likes to end these with a saying like, "Brilliant police work, solved the crime!!"

Wasn't it great when this was the scope of "police investigation"??
 
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Unbelievable how localized

ed4copies said:
areaman said:
Ed, glad everyone is alright, but 5 miles isn't near far enough away!
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Actually, tornadoes and "shear winds" (straight line high winds) are SO localized, a quarter mile is fine. Neighbor lost a huge maple a couple years ago, I lost a tree, both in a direct line, north to south.

My house was not more than 20 feet off that line, but was completely undamaged. :eek::eek:
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You are right they are very localized. When we lost the two trees I mentioned before they were on the south east side of our house. We lost another small apple tree on the North west side...the house and another maple tree were between the uprooted apple tree and the two big maples. We were having a new roof put on at the time and the only place the house got touched was one piece of facia was blown off. There were also a couple of trees damaged to the north east not in a line with the others. Wierd.
 
Yup

workinforwood said:
LOL ! These are the things that make life worth living..I like being in a small town. The Eaton Rapids Public School was voted best Public School in town. :biggrin:
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I grew up in a small country village in PA, 3 churches on one side of the track 3 bars on the other...always some debate over which was the "wrong side of the tracks" No traffic lights but there were 5 stop signs. And of course, everybody knew everybody else along with everybody elses business (all party lines on the phones).
 
Ed, I am glad that both you and Dawn are safe. For me being born, raised, grow up. moved to, living in a big city I don't understand the shear fear these kind of mother nature events can bring upon on families, fortunately I have only been in one hurricane in Houston in early 80's ,but not too bad and almost ran away form one when we were living Fl, in early 90's. but I can not imagine what one will go through when something like this happens.
I am hoping that all this mess will end soon, in a good note and calmer.
 
yes, you can't live your life worrying about these things. I live in tornado alley. Some other guy lives next to a popular Hurricane landing zone, or 10 miles from a volcano. No matter where you live, there's something possible...maybe an earthquake will level that city..who knows. Something happens here, and I live through it, I re build.
 
workinforwood said:
Lots of silly things happen in these little towns...it's great!

Our newspaper is kinda like the good ole days...it's all about the local stuff.

You know...
George got mangled in his plow...wife is selling his junk on Tuesday.
Little Billy's Goat got first place for having a shiny coat.
There's serving green eggs at the Church on Sunday.
Traffic light still aint workin. :biggrin:
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At least you have a news paper... ours is printed in a neighboring town and mostly gossip and drug reports.. it's printed on 8 x 11 paper and usually had two or three pages.

We have NO traffic lights, not even a flashing light... 6 cars will create a traffic jam, but we do have 6 policemen... I think there are 4 police cars... it's a dry county, so no taverns, we do have 5 restaurants in town, plus a pizza parlor, a subway and a Hardee's, and you can also get dinner at the Exxon station and I think the BP station services food. You can buy beer in town at the Exxon, BP and we have a tobacco/beer shop... no hard liquor or wine. Funny thing is in Tennessee liquor stores can't sell beer.:confused:
 
Funny thing is in Tennessee liquor stores can't sell beer

Geeze Chuck, don't want to confuse the locals---if they sold BEER, it would be the BEER store!!!

In the liquor store, they just sell licker!!
 
TellicoTurning said:
workinforwood said:
Lots of silly things happen in these little towns...it's great!

Our newspaper is kinda like the good ole days...it's all about the local stuff.

You know...
George got mangled in his plow...wife is selling his junk on Tuesday.
Little Billy's Goat got first place for having a shiny coat.
There's serving green eggs at the Church on Sunday.
Traffic light still aint workin. :biggrin:
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At least you have a news paper... ours is printed in a neighboring town and mostly gossip and drug reports.. it's printed on 8 x 11 paper and usually had two or three pages.

We have NO traffic lights, not even a flashing light... 6 cars will create a traffic jam, but we do have 6 policemen... I think there are 4 police cars... it's a dry county, so no taverns, we do have 5 restaurants in town, plus a pizza parlor, a subway and a Hardee's, and you can also get dinner at the Exxon station and I think the BP station services food. You can buy beer in town at the Exxon, BP and we have a tobacco/beer shop... no hard liquor or wine. Funny thing is in Tennessee liquor stores can't sell beer.:confused:
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Only seems fair...the beer stores can't sell liquor, so the liquor stores can't sell beer. After all you don't call a carpenter to fix your car.
 
Only seems fair...the beer stores can't sell liquor, so the liquor stores can't sell beer. After all you don't call a carpenter to fix your car.

:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:Well, unless you are competing in a soap box derby:eek::eek::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Wow! Glad to hear everyone is ok. And I thought it was bad here. All I lost were a few strips of siding off the back side of the house.
 
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