Shed some light please

[lottathought]

The more I read this, the more I wonder what Fire and Brimstone raining Hades some of you have lived?

I think I might go the the NC border this weekend and see what MadMax cars are trying to get in.

I suppose the best answer here is that we can park our cars outside cause we do not have to worry about death from above...

Oh and Will...Give me back my phone book. I wondered where mine went.

[Partman]

Will Will Will. A garage is where you take your car or truck when you can not repair it your self. A shed is where you keep the tractor. If the car or truck runs you park in DRIVE WAY. If they don't run you put them up on blocks in the yard. Ever fall you drive on the PARK WAY to see the leaves change color.

Danny

[Trent Mason]

I was ten years old, but living in SW VA during Hugo. We had 4 feet of water in our basement and several trees landed on the house. Then we moved down here. Been through Fran, Floyd and a bunch of lesser ones. Stood on the beach in the middle of Ophelia. I think that one was a cat 1 or a strong tropcial storm. Either way, we had to hold onto a volleyball net pole (telephone poll burried in the sand) to stand up. When everyone else is leaving, me and a small goup of friends are loading up our gear and heading down to the beach to surf.

[Ray Martin]

Originally Posted by NC Scroller

Maybe Texas has this too but in NC we have HOAs. I would love to do my woodworking in a shed but since I live in a HOA. No shed, trailer, boat etc. If you can't hide it in the garage you can't have it. HOA can be so bad that there was one that banded the display of the American Flag for a time. Before you rural folks jump in, Cary is not the only place with HOAs. ...

I built a shed at the back of the yard so I could get stuff out of the shop that is shaped like a garage. When I did, a neighbor, who is on the neighborhood HOA Architectural Committee, stopped by to let me know the committee didn't approve this outbuilding and I was in violation of the neighborhood covenants. I offered him space in the shed for his lawnmower... and he helped me finish building it.

Ray

[Splinter]

Originally Posted by Gofor

There are two reasons for all the phone books:

2: If you live in the rural areas, the phone companies get a charitable discount per book for helping out the underpriviledged. Their reasoning is that you can stack them in the outhouse and save money on that fancy rolled paper stuff. It originated with a bill lobbied for by Bell telephone in the late 1940's, finally made it through the state legislature in 2002, and will come up for review and revision in 2056.

Go

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Mark, I will assume that you attempting to be humerus with this comment. I proudly live in a rural area and we don't use outhouses and don't consider ourselves underprivileged but I do feel rather blessed to live here and not it a city where the neighbors can tell me what I can build on my 25 acres. In fact I have three bathrooms in my house (all indoor) and a half bath in my shop. And they all have pl entry of that fancy rolled paper stuff.
I will add that as a kid we did have an outhouse but didn't use telephone books in it because we didn't have a telephone, so we used the Sears and Roebuck catalog.

[DavidF]

Phone books or Sears catalogues just have to be better than "Izal, medicated toilet paper" that we grew up with in England!! Hard and shiny, useless as Loo Roll, but great for tracing paper!

[Will Goodwin]

Originally Posted by wtf21

"If you can name more than two hurricanes that you lived through (with pride), you may live in North Carolina ."

Let me reiterate.
(Don't get me wrong....I love North Carolina.)
I have lived in New Hampshire and Texas for extended periods of time and traveled all over the US and abroad and North Carolina is the best!

Growing up on the Eastern Seaboard, I've seen my share of hurricanes. But on the other hand, I've also seen my share of Texas tornados. Both are bad news. I worked rescuing people who were trapped in their cars under bridges during flash flooding. And had to hike down a mountain to get back to my car that was under 8 feet if snow in the white mountains during a blizzard. I've seen lots of bad weather. And I have to say I love NC so far. It is by far the best place I've lived.

Originally Posted by NC Scroller

Maybe Texas has this too but in NC we have HOAs.

Oh yah! Texas has HOA's. A few years back it was big news that some guy painted his fence rainbow colors because the HOA wouldn't let him build a shed and there was no clause about fence painting in the bylaws. The neighbors were furious and the HOA sued him and he won....don't know what happened, but it was great! .... And Ray I am still laughing about your solution ... I sent a copy to my wife and she is ROFL too.

Originally Posted by Tarhead

If you park in your garage how does your car get cleaned?

That is something that I found amazing in Texas....first place I ever lived where your car got dirty during a rain. The dust was pulled out of the air and left a nasty coating on your car.

Originally Posted by junquecol

What I don't understand about our transplants, is why they move here for our lifestyle, and then try to make it like where they came from. If that is the life style they want, why didn't they stay where they were? Got to get off my soap box now.

Not trying to change anything and didn't mean to offend....just trying to understand.

[JimmyC]

Originally Posted by junquecol

Hazel, Fran, and Floyd, along with a bunch of down rated tropical depressions. For you new comers (less than fifty years) Hazel was in 1954. (Hugo doesn't count as it was confined to western sections of the state.) Slept through Fran. Got up the next morning and fired up generator to see if I needed to go to work at my teaching job. I'm one of the lucky ones- I was born here. I didn't have to spend a lifetime getting here. What I don't understand about our transplants, is why they move here for our lifestyle, and then try to make it like where they came from. If that is the life style they want, why didn't they stay where they were? Got to get off my soap box now.

I agree with you Bruce, I moved from NJ to get a different lifestyle. I couldn't find the house I wanted in Wake ( wife works in Morrisville) so I ended up in the county outside of Clayton. My house is on 1 1/2 acres, surrounded two thirds of the way around by state wetlands. I moved here to get away from small lots, and people that wanted to control how you live, and I found just that. I embrace the weather (even the hot summers) and the food (especially good eastern pig). My only regret is that I wish I had some more land, especially for my daughters so we could get horses, but I don't have the money for that.

Ex-yankee living happily in Johnston County,

Jimmy

[Nativespec]

DaveF-I could not hear your English accent in your posts. Garages are for tools and my convertible if I have room. Outbuildings are for storage.
Phonebooks are for the timber industry.

In WACO, the FBI burns down your camp if you don't behave.

David

[Bas]

Shouldn't that be "bog roll"?

[JimmyC]

Originally Posted by Nativespec

DaveF-I could not hear your English accent in your posts. Garages are for tools and my convertible if I have room. Outbuildings are for storage.
Phonebooks are for the timber industry.

In WACO, the FBI burns down your camp if you don't behave.

David

David,

Park the car in your garage ? Unless it's a R/C car I'd like to see it happen. You make the most use of a small space as it is.

Jimmy

[Gofor]

Originally Posted by Splinter

Mark, I will assume that you attempting to be humerus with this comment. I proudly live in a rural area and we don't use outhouses and don't consider ourselves underprivileged but I do feel rather blessed to live here and not it a city where the neighbors can tell me what I can build on my 25 acres. In fact I have three bathrooms in my house (all indoor) and a half bath in my shop. And they all have pl entry of that fancy rolled paper stuff.
I will add that as a kid we did have an outhouse but didn't use telephone books in it because we didn't have a telephone, so we used the Sears and Roebuck catalog.

Me too (except I don't have 25 acres. Wish I did!!) Same thing with the phone and Sears Roebuck in the outhouse. And Yes, it was intended for humor.

Go

[cpw]

1. Why waste precious indoor space on something as trivial as a car? A car is basically water-tight and weather proof, a table saw isn't. And why spend $$ on an outbuilding when you've got a perfectly good shop inside the house? Lived here 43 years and never seen hail big enough to do any damage.
2. Apparently, phonebook delivery people get paid by the piece?

[CaptnA]

I'm getting in here kind of late but I got to tell you this is interesting reading.

I have visited 40 states besides this one I am proud to call home.
My LOML has lived in Nebraska - Texas, Oklahoma, Washington, and Tennessee before I 'saved her'.... I'm not gonna speak for her but I have a real good idea what her answer would be to move somewhere else... and I don't think I'd be packing any time soon.

Amazing the differences just across the lines of our state. Our community is small, but every time I get to feeling 'rural', I jump in the buggy and in about 15 minutes I can see what rural really is. Places where the directions include drive about a mile after the pavement stops and you turn right before the fence goes across what looks like it ought to be the road. Ours is the third place on the left. Cut through the creek by the sycamore and that's our driveway on the other side.
What a happy place to be.
HOA - I thought that was a house on axles LOML told me what it was. After she LOL'd at me.... Nothing wrong with either Had one of the former. Don't think I'd care for the latter. If I wanna change my oil in the yard I think long as it's my buggy, my oil, and my yard it oughta be my business.
Kinda like making sawdust at 5 in the morning. or til 5 ever how ya look at it.
Does NC get storms?? (PLEASE note that was tongue in cheek) Another nice thing about the western part of the state we hear about what some of the 'eastern' people deal with. I do pay a bit more attention now that my baby girl is din Greenville area.

[Travis Porter]

All the outhouses I have used have had real toilet paper, so never considered phone books or sears catalogs......

As for getting all the phone books, I hate them. You get the one from your telephone company and then three other companies that are in competition to see who can be top dog in selling yellow page ads and usage of them.

I have seen hail in NC before, a total of two times in 40 years. Once in Greensboro when I was driving which was not very fun.

I used not to park the car in the garage as it was the shop. I remember when garages really weren't that common here. It seemed like if you had an attached carport you were really up there.