by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
It was a hot, sunny day in Northern Alabama. I was walking along in the late morning, soaked as usual with perspiration caused by the heat and humidity. There was a little house to the left. I guess it had a bedroom or two with maybe 500 square feet of living area. It was a light brown color and had a porch across its meager front. Next to it was a gray building of perhaps 20,000 square feet.<\/p>\n
That is right, my guess of 20,000 square feet. The gray building was at least 200 feet long and about 100 feet deep. It was only one story tall with a slightly pitched roof.<\/p>\n
This building had one regular door – the kind that you have on the front of your house that allows one person at a time. There were no windows. There were no signs anywhere indicating that this was a warehouse or a factory or a mini-storage or anything of the sort.<\/p>\n
It was inexplicable – no explanation. For all I know Osama Bin-Laden’s brother lived in there with Salmon Rushdie and Elvis.<\/p>\n
A year earlier shortly after noon I was walking in Southern Virginia. Rising out of a large, flattened (by tractors) field was what looked like an airplane hanger. It had a giant semi-circular frame like a quonset hut. It’s “roof” was a brilliant blue fabric stretched over the frame. There was nothing inside this\u00a0 giant\u00a0 blue quonset hut. No explanation; it was just sitting there in the middle of a field.<\/p>\n
I saw several such buildings while taking a walk. They were<\/p>\n
Perhaps I have spent too many years living near Washington D.C. Perhaps I have worked on\u00a0 too many strange engineering projects. Perhaps my mind wonders and wanders too much when I walk all day in the sun. But there they were, these inexplicable buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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