The Neighborhood Observation Of A Home

When someone says they grew up in a four bedroom, 2 and a half bathroom, furnished basement house you would assume the environment was warm and inviting. This house is the most beautiful one on the block and the largest one due to an extra bedroom built in 1991. From the outside looking in you would want to visit this home but everything that glitters is not gold. This house is located in University, MO and it is in what most people consider the safe part of the community. This house was purchased in the late 1960’s and my parents were the 1st black couple to move on that block. This house is very important to my parents but seems more valuable than love to them.
What makes the house appear inviting is the outer appearance. For instance, the garden work is very well maintained. The grass is cut every weekend. The grass grows green and strong with no bald spots and the flowers have color basically dripping off of them. The house has a newly added bay window and new screen door that looks like a new purchase from Home Depot. If you look to the right side of the house you will see the addition built on to the house, which makes the house look like two houses …show more content…
If company did randomly show up this room would be used for entertainment. Growing up the basement looked a lot different due to the random flash flood in University City in 2008. It was a rainy Sunday morning on September 16, 2008 and the creek behind the house began to overflow. The water stated to run towards the house and knocked until it stated to flow in the basement. Terror was on my parents face when the dirty Mississippi water invaded the basement. It only took a few minutes before the water was up to my stomach level standing. I stood there and watch my parent’s pictures, music collection, furniture and other valuable items get washed away with that dirty