One unsung benefit of urban living is that tornadoes generally hop over a city due to the bubble of heat created by all those cars, buildings, and asphalt. Not so out here in the sticks. In Cleveland in nine years I never went to the basement o

Our dream of wooded acreage and convenient shopping was slightly marred this week by a gas leak that nearly killed us all in a giant blue whumph. The straight-from-cental-casting hillbilly who came to fix it looked at the situation and quickly surmis