Federal researchers put the odds of a magnitude 6.75 or larger earthquake along Utah’s Wasatch Fault at 43% over the next 50 years. Nobody mentions that number during a house tour. These are the things people find out the hard way after moving to Utah. 1. Cracking the Address Code Utah’s street addresses work like…
The National Hurricane Center’s climatology says September 10 is the single most active date of the Atlantic season. That was last week. Hurricane season runs through November 30. Nevertheless, many households start loosening up some seasonal habits once that peak date is behind them. These are the habits Floridians drop the week peak hurricane season…
Memorial Stadium has sold out every Cornhusker home game since November 3, 1962. It’s a run that Omaha station WOWT calls the longest active streak in college football. That’s 410 straight sellouts. But a kid raised on those Saturdays carries more than a football habit out of the state. These are the signs someone was…
A folding table sits by the fellowship hall door at homecoming, spiral-bound cookbooks stacked next to a cash box. The University of South Carolina’s Caroliniana Library holds 357 of them. These are the recipes and drinks that turn up in nearly every old South Carolina cookbook. 1. Chicken Bog Chicken bog fills a single pot…
San Antonio ranks 12th among the 50 largest U.S. metros for adults 25 to 40 still living with their parents, per a LendingTree analysis of Census data. Dallas and Houston sit just behind it. But moving back in is the easy part. What comes after runs on rules nobody writes down until something goes wrong….
Publix’s seafood pages put its special-order list at more than 60 kinds of fresh fish a shopper won’t find in the case. Few Floridians ever ask. What that counter will do for a shopper isn’t printed anywhere on the glass, and a couple of those things cost nothing. These are the things the Publix seafood…
You pull up to a donation trailer with a crib that’s never had a scratch. The attendant waves you toward the dumpster instead. Goodwill Columbus keeps 14 million pounds a year out of Central Ohio landfills, by its own count. Your crib won’t be part of it. These are the donations Ohio charities may refuse…
Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse hold more than 600,000 people between them, according to the latest Census Bureau estimates. That fact never survives the drive south. The same handful of questions comes up every time, from people who’ve never been north of the city’s suburbs. These are the things upstate New York residents are tired of…
Steam comes off a shovelful of oysters the second they hit the table, and the crowd closes in without waiting to be told. The sole out-of-stater in the group hesitates. These are the unwritten oyster roast rules visitors break in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. 1. The Bushel, Not the Dozen Hosts price a Lowcountry oyster roast…
Tampa’s earliest morning below 60 degrees on record landed on September 19, according to National Weather Service records. Its latest waited until November 23. Nobody gets to plan around a two-month window, so the whole state just watches for the week it finally shows up. These are the things Floridians stop doing the week the…
