I am going on record as a Washingtonian, Tacoma has always smelled like farts (paper-mill) due to all the methane in the air and I am surprised that the explosion didn't incinerate the entire city.
Yep, although it smelled much nicer the last time I drove through. They'll still mug you and leave you bleeding in a ditch there, but at least the air quality has gone up.
Seriously though, would incinerating Tacoma really be that big a loss?
I live in Seattle, and lemme tell you that BREMERTON, despite all Tacoma's Aroma, will always hold the crown as the most horrible POS city in America, and it's also totally just a hop skip and a jump away. Bremerton is so filled with white trash that the president has suggested they power their cars with meth.
Bremerton's also home of the Bremelo, reputed to be the ugliest type of woman in the world. They're fat navy wives with frizzy hair who slut around town while yelling at their children and stuffing their faces with Hot Pockets. It's horrible. In all seriousness, Sir Mixalot even wrote a song about it called "Bremelo." Look it up.
Having just spent a couple weeks in Tacoma, I'm left wondering if the people who rag on it so much have ever been to any other city outside of their corner of the country.
Top 3 worst cities/regional areas in America, in order of most suicide-inducing would be:
1. Oxford, Mississippi
2. Birmingham, Alabama
3. Tupelo, Mississippi
i'm in olympia, about a half hour drive south of tacoma. i go up there often cause i got to, and i get my shit done and get out as quickly as i can. take it from me, that city is the asshole of the northwest. and yes, bremerton is pretty awful too, but in a different sort of way.
oh, and explosions are great. just ask the cameraman
The locals call it the Tacoma Aroma. Truth be told, I liked Tacoma, but it's just another ShittleLittletown that survives mostly thanks to it's School.
I have personal hate stakes in Tacoma, and welcome it exploding heartily.