Apartment Life #389

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 27 years here in a weekly blog post.

*Picture courtesy of Justin Bruce Weather on FB*

I had to share this picture that a local weatherman posted on his FB page. We had a huge thunderstorm this past week and this picture was better than the ones that I took for sure. 🤣 Oh and that big ball on the left hand side that looks like it's on fire is The Sphere Las Vegas. The Sphere is huge and lit up with millions of LED's that they can change to different pictures show on the outside of it. The inside is the same way. I wanted to share a little something of where I live. 

This is the picture of the storm that I took as it passed over where I live. I didn't get any rain from it but as it went away from me, it started producing rain in Henderson, NV. 

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On Sunday, my grandson's father came over for dinner and told me that he saw smoke pouring out of the tunnels that the homeless people stay in. So, I went outside to see what was going on and saw that there was indeed smoke pouring from the tunnels. So, I started snapping pictures. And my daughter took some pictures when the Fire department showed up. When the police got here, they questioned Jessica (The Mayor of tunnel town)  who barely made it out of the tunnels alive, and she said that Mikey (Her ex) was the one that lit fire to a bunch of chemicals down there because he was trying to kill the homeless people that were in the area down there. I talked to her on Tuesday and she said he's still on the run.

I didn't know it when I was taking pictures before the fire department got here, that I actually got a picture of Mikey and Antwon walking down the street next to all the tunnels pouring out smoke. Later on, I would find out that the police were looking for Mikey. Oh, and yes if you remember me saying in this post, that Antwon had been arrested and charged with attempted murder back in February for shooting a guy in the leg after a drug deal gone bad. Yeah, he's out of jail and back living on the streets over here. Isn't that great?

The fire department got here and they had to lower some of the firemen down in the tunnels to put the fires out. Jessica said that she and some others barely got out alive. She had soot and black stuff all over her from all the smoke.

They geared up and went down into the tunnels. They were here for about 2 hours putting the fires out. You can see how smokey it is behind the firemen. The smoke was pouring out of all the manhole covers all the way down this walkway.

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Wednesday night at 11PM this homeless woman named Shasta came to my door but we were already in bed. My daughter pulled up the camera and saw her back her motorized wheelchair up and then drive right through our garden.

Her whole wheelchair is sitting in our garden here and she's pulling on the sunflowers.

That wasn't good enough so she backs out of the garden, gets out of her wheelchair and pulls more of the plants up. 

My daughter called the police but they told her she would have to come down to the station and make a report for vandalism.

Then when she's satisfied that she destroyed it enough, she drives away.  We think she was mad that we didn't answer the door at 11PM because she's always asking my daughter to buy her a drink or a snack or to give her a couple of dollars. My daughter has bought her drinks in the past but you bet she won't anymore. 

This is what our sunflower plants looked like the day before.

This is what they looked like the day after she drove over them. The two big stalks were pulled out of the ground and my daughter had to throw them away. She's going to plants some more sunflower seeds and hope they grow. 

The high this week was 91F/32C

The low this week was 66F/18C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.