Two quick things:
1. If you're seeing horrific news footage of people having to be plucked from floodwaters in Oklahoma - that's not near me, for what it's worth. That's up by OKC. I'm amazed, though, at the rescues - apparently the choppers they're using aren't rescue-equipped, so they have a guy out on one of the "runners" (whatever the proper name is) who helps the people sit and hold on. Scary. And it's scary how fast this apparently came up - it looks like most of the rescues are not because people were doing something ill-advised and foolish, but because they simply DID NOT HAVE TIME to get out of the way before the flooding came.
I hope everyone's safe. I saw some pretty dramatic coverage from channel 9.
2. And a piece of advice - if you live in an old house with a crawl space under it, and you keep smelling this SMELL*...particularly near the kitchen...don't just assume a raccoon crawled under the house and died. Check your potato supply too. Rotting potatoes smell rather extremely bad.
I'm airing out my kitchen right now. Moving the bag made everything worse, but I had to get it out of there.
(*"It's a smelly smell. A smelly smell that smells....SMELLY!" - Mr. Krabs)
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Re Item 2: When I was a young woman (like yourself), I too had a rotting potato (the juice of which ruined the bottom of my cookie sheet) in my kitchen. Once I discovered what the stench was, I remembered a friend telling me her mother had told her that once you smell the odor of a rotting potato, you never forget it. Ick!
Yes, rotting potatoes stink! I had forgotten I had a bag in our mudroom and after several weeks of hot weather...wow, it was pretty bad.
-- Grace in MA
rotten onions are even worse. they smell like a catbox gone wrong! don't ask how i know
Re the flooding: I was shocked when I saw that on the news. We got just a little bit of rain and disappointed that we didn't get more.
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