Living in a high desert, it’s easy to forget that many neighborhoods in Reno/Sparks as well as the Carson Valley have been deemed high risk areas for floods. After such a dry winter last year, the possibility of a flood seems impossible. But you need only need to think back to New Year’s Day 2006 [...]

Every year, the fourth Thursday of November comes around and much to the dismay of the birds that go “gobble”, we Americans sit down with family and friends and enjoy a homemade turkey dinner. Whether it’s baked in the oven, or fried outdoors, turkey on Thanksgiving is as American on fireworks on the 4th of [...]

October 29, 2012 will forever be remembered as the day that Hurricane Sandy destroyed the Mid-Atlantic portion of the United States. The clean up promises to be lengthy and the catastrophic damage is said to be in the billions. Perhaps Sandy’s most lasting effect will be that this natural disaster begs us all to take [...]