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A Houston mom who regularly documents living in a van with her children on social media is no longer living in the van. For now, a jail cell is her home.

That’s because Eugena Morris, 28, was arrested and taken into custody after she went after another woman with a machete, police said.

Morris has gained a modest following on TikTok, where she chronicles what it’s like to live in a van with her three daughters.

“You don’t know what people go through, or have been through to survive,” Morris said in one of her videos.

The incident that led to her arrest reportedly happened at Haviland Park in southwest Houston. It began when Morris and others began arguing before she returned to her van and emerged with a machete, chasing down another woman involved in the argument, police said.

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I just opened up your tik tok link and it opened up to this:

".. depicting how she creates her own toilet paper out of old pajamas she has lying around the house."

I... just... pajamas lying around the house...cut up... Reused

"Personally, I "create" my own toilet paper out of the driving gloves/hostess pants/lobster bibs l have lying around the house. I have a bidet of course, doesn't everyone? Then I just toss them into a convenient basket and Maria puts them in our washing machine.
I am SO doing SO much for the environment. I use 20 times as much water, but there's plenty of that, it comes right out of the faucet all the time! I don't know where they grow fabrics but there's plenty of water for flannel trees and cotton bushes! "


Environmental people can be. .. assholes. And ignorant.




I don’t think it ever stopped! ;)
There's a consistent link between high temperatures and increased rates of violent crime

Starts here in the Southwest when the temperatures are mostly past 100°.
Its 101° today.

She's in Houston. Right on schedule.

It's as predictable to us as snowplows and leaky roofs are to people who live above the
35° - 40° latitudes.
 
I just opened up your tik tok link and it opened up to this:

".. depicting how she creates her own toilet paper out of old pajamas she has lying around the house."

I... just... pajamas lying around the house...cut up... Reused

"Personally, I "create" my own toilet paper out of the driving gloves/hostess pants/lobster bibs l have lying around the house. I have a bidet of course, doesn't everyone? Then I just toss them into a convenient basket and Maria puts them in our washing machine.
I am SO doing SO much for the environment. I use 20 times as much water, but there's plenty of that, it comes right out of the faucet all the time! I don't know where they grow fabrics but there's plenty of water for flannel trees and cotton bushes! "


Environmental people can be. .. assholes. And ignorant.





There's a consistent link between high temperatures and increased rates of violent crime

Starts here in the Southwest when the temperatures are mostly past 100°.
Its 101° today.

She's in Houston. Right on schedule.

It's as predictable to us as snowplows and leaky roofs are to people who live above the
35° - 40° latitudes.
Maybe someone should do a study of the correlation between high temperatures and carrying concealed machetes. ;)
 
There's a consistent link between high temperatures and increased rates of violent crime

Starts here in the Southwest when the temperatures are mostly past 100°.
Its 101° today.

I knew about the correlation up here in the North, where it's very intuitive because everybody just stays inside and hunkers down when it's below 20 degrees. But I never knew it still held with temperatures upwards of 100. You'd think more people would stay in the air conditioning.
 
I knew about the correlation up here in the North, where it's very intuitive because everybody just stays inside and hunkers down when it's below 20 degrees. But I never knew it still held with temperatures upwards of 100. You'd think more people would stay in the air conditioning.

I've given your musings some thought and think I might have some ideas.

I found only 5 cooling centers in Tucson. One only accommodates six people, another has shade trees, not kidding. The rest are only open a few days a week.

There's very little shade in Tucson, very few trees, and awnings aren't required on businesses as they were in the past, so during this time they tend to congregate in the dry washes, under bridges.
Normally the homeless are quite spread out, you hardly see more than two together, but now they're cheek to jowel.

So that's one slice.

The discount store across the street from me barely uses it's aircon, and I think a lot of places are like that, such as the big rock and mineral showrooms, upholstery shops, mechanics, all in aluminum sided, uninsulated buildings, so there's a lot of working people who are subjected to the heat also.

Before the big building boom in the 80s a lot of places were constructed to have thermal mass with tile, concrete, adobe, stone, and other dense materials.

Oh, one other thing, the trailer parks. Mobile homes house 10% of the population here, and their wiring isn't capable of supporting central air.

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Grim.


This city would do well to have a schedule like Spain.
 
Just got this article on my feed:

"As the temperatures rise, so do the crime rates in the summer. According to a report from the Department of Justice, crime is a lot more common in the summer than the winter.

Heat, alcohol consumption, vacations and longer days are contribut[ors] to the increase of violent crime in the summer."


I hadn't thought about the longer days.
Or dehydrating alcohol.
Or vacations!! Who goes on vacation and commits crimes?
 
Just got this article on my feed:

"As the temperatures rise, so do the crime rates in the summer. According to a report from the Department of Justice, crime is a lot more common in the summer than the winter.

Heat, alcohol consumption, vacations and longer days are contribut[ors] to the increase of violent crime in the summer."


I hadn't thought about the longer days.
Or dehydrating alcohol.
Or vacations!! Who goes on vacation and commits crimes?
as i see it on vacation if you go away you leave your dwelling empty so more prone to be burgalized and if you stay home more time and/or boredom to get up to no good and also beind upset and more alcohol being used doesn't help neither cuz again you couldn't afford to go away for vacations so shorter temper ...
 
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