Just need to get through 4 days
6If any of you watch the US Open, we're waving at you. It's a mile from our house. We're next door to the entrance of the satellite parking area. It's been very strange watching our tiny town gear up for something so huge. The two towns most effected have 30k and 6k (our town) people. We've got friends even closer who have had to get permits just to enter their streets, and have been told they can't swim in their pools (subdivisions). Getting to the store 4 blocks away is a major excursion, and my husband is leaving at 430 to make what's normally a 30 minute drive to work, to get there at 600. I really do hope that it brings good money to our few, but wonderful businesses. I love our tiny, historic town, and at least she'll look even better after everyone's gone what with all the improvements everyone's been making to dress up for all the visitors.
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Bummer. Maybe next year go on vacation and rent your house for a small fortune?
@sammydog01 We came very close to it, but our two cats are older and wouldn't do well being moved. There were quite a few stories of people evicted from their homes so that landlords could rent the places for outrageous sums. There are zero hotels until you get at least 10 miles away, and that's only a couple tiny ones. Most are half an hour from the course.
What?! They aren't allowed to use their own pool? What would happen if they did?
@Kevin The HOA put locks on it. It's been very surreal around here in general. There are cops everywhere. This is the plaid shorts/gray hair crowd and they are representing hard.
@jaremelz Anytime I see HOA I get the heebie-jeebies
@Kevin As do I. I could never plunk down the money to own a home, only to have someone have say over every little thing I did/didn't do.
@jaremelz More importantly, pay people hundreds of dollars a month to have a say over ever little thing you did/didn't do.
If it's really successful, they will double your taxes to pay for the high-rise hotels where they can host twice as many next time! Yay! How long would it take, say, for your husband to walk to work? Assuming he could get the permits to use shoes.
@jaremelz did you survive???
@mikibell We did! I had to cancel my bike riding though, as nearly all the routes were blocked off. All in all, it wasn't too bad. But we were just saying this morning that the constant hum of the blimp is gone and we sort of miss it.
I don't watch golf, but I visited a couple places that were watching it... what is the deal with that course?
As a non golf watcher I kept explaining that a championship should have a very hard course, but the consensus in the room, on the tv, and on the golfers faces was they had all been punked.
@thismyusername there are a lot of reasons why this course was extremely hard.. It is a relatively new course, (8ish years old) so few have a lot of experience on it. It is quite dry in the region, so it was hard to tell where the greens began. It is links style, which is more likely found in Britain than the US, meaning few trees and very sandy conditions. Also, links tend to be flattish, but it seems this course has a variety of elevations. TL;DR wasn't your typical US course, made worse by weather.