Antelope Valley Blogs

So here we are having a water crisis and each day when I come home from work I drive past the motorcross facility at the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds and see them hosing down the dirt out there. I know that they need to do this to keep the dust down, but doesn't this seem like a waste of water?!

Here I have gone to extremes in my own home to keep myself and my kids from using too much water and it really pisses me off to see such a blatent waste of water. 

Is there some other way that they could keep the dust down? 

Have you seen these things? You rent a DVD for $1 for the day from a completely computerized machine found at the front of the grocery store. Pretty nifty, right? WRONG!

I admittedly used the red box machine a few times at my local Albertson's when it was brand new and thought it was swell.  Now that the machine has gotten a little more popular there is a line most times which blocks the entrance/exit. People are rude and decide to browse the full selection, read all the descriptions and talk on the cell phone while 5 people are waiting in line behind them. 

I suppose the ploy is to get people to shop instead of wait around in line at the redbox dvd machine and heck I fell for that in teh beginning! I found myself buying crap I didn't need just to avoid the line - only problem is, I get done checking out to see that the line is even longer. 

Lately I have noticed a major pile up of shopping carts on my street and I hear people pushing them down the street at all hours. This morning I just about backed into one and when I looked down the street I saw about 8 carts piled up in front of the section 8 neighbors house. What the heck do you steal shopping carts for???

Just this morning the neighbor on the corner that I swear has a meth lab in his house decides he wants to ride his quad LOUDLY down the street and when he saw me looking at him he rudely stops and yells WHAT?!? I am so sick of these people but I don't know what to do about it. I dont know if I should call the sheriff about the quad incedent. Are quads illegal on the city streets? I know I shouldnt be scared to live in my own neighborhood but I am feeling afraid to walk outside anymore.

I have been hearing about this valley turning intoa  section 8 dump for years. With this latest slump in the market Ive seen the growth of section 8 homes increase drastically in my neighborhood. I have a house on the corner that looks like a meth lab. The cops are there all the time and they are constantly fighting. This family of 4 or 5 or 10 for all I know is constantly fighting and their pitbull is chained up barking at all hours. These people got this house from section 8 so Ive been told.

Then there is a second house 4 houses down from mine that just turned section 8. It was a foreclosure. Dude beats his wife and his kids look like they never take a bath. They have people coming and going connstantly.

To the city of Lancaster: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?? Why is my once quiet neighborhood turning into a slum along with hundrens of others. It doesn't even matter anymore where in the antelope valley you live becasue even people on the west side are dealing with this crap.  I have a friend over by the college with a  similar scenario on her street. Why is this allowed? Why are we turning our city into a dump for low lives????

Was anyone else stopped on the 14 freeway by the cops? They had to escort traffic today because of how bad the wind is. I come home after the freeway fiasco to find that a couple of tiles from my roof fell off today because of the damn wind. Where else but palmdale can you have wind blizzards. Forget snow. Although i would prefer it over the wind.

What are they thinking??????

This looks like it belongs to a medical facility. Why did they change the other one? Is this the new look of R. Rex's Lancaster?