Could someone please help me.

[mamaKate]

We don't have basements in SE. MO is because the water table is so high that it would be a nightmare to try and prevent leaks. Sort of like a reverse underground swimming pool.

 

[BettyR]

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I suppose that could be the reason we don't have them as well but then there are people here who dig storm shelters and don't seem to have any problem with them filling with water. But I don't think a storm shelter is going to be as deep as a basement. So again I don't really know why we don't have them.

 

[greyfields]

Cut all the vines and hang them in your greenhouse, workshop... anywhere. They'll ripen eventually.

 

[BettyR]

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Thanks!!!

 

[Rosalind]

I was always told it's because in the South you don't have problems with frost heaving. A slab up here would be cracked in two years, and the entire house would no longer be level and plumb after about five years. The ground gets waterlogged in late fall and then freezes, and the frost will pop just about anything back up out of the ground. Some people get shrubberies and trees on sale in fall, plant them, and then get frustrated because they pop right back out in spring and die. So basements here go below the frost line (>4 feet deep). Another reason, we need mechanical space for a serious furnace, and you can't keep the oil tank outside or your lines will freeze. My oil-burner furnace + tank + repair kit + replacement filters take up a space the size of a small bedroom.

 

[BettyR]

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That is really good to know!!! I didn't know any of that! It's a really good thing I don't live up North I'd probably freeze to death!!