John Shelton
John Shelton
concerned controlled hazardous plan regardless responsibility structures
Regardless of who's doing a controlled burn, we still have the responsibility to plan for what would be a concerned hazardous area. We have to put in a structures plan and an evacuation plan.
blow driver mirror pulling rear saw section top truck
After the truck had disconnected from it, the driver was pulling away and he saw in his mirror a manhole gasket blow off of the top rear section of the tank.
concern hoping involving
Their big concern is that they set it off. They were hoping to put it out without involving the county.
barbecue closest hundred miles southern wines
Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.
groups
Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.
agree asking good people
The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.
potential
We have the potential for some big problems, but we think right now it's just potential.
call children feet house neighbor owner run secure until water
We had a call from a neighbor that he had to run children out of the house and that there is 3-4 feet of water in the basement. Can't something be done to secure the place until the owner can be found?
wine europe southern
Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.
native-american media african-american
No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies.
hands people black
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors.
southern historical records
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.
north-carolina barbecue rail
Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.
barbecue hundred miles
Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.