accents / Andromeda T. / Safe rooms

[Carol]

Catlady wrote: 
> I know someone originally from rural north Florida. It has been said
of him that in his accent, there is nothing that rhymes with "thing"
(thaang), not even "anything" (annythaang) rhymes with "thing"
(thaang). It's a gorgeous accent.
> 
Carol responds:

so I suppose that "sing" and "ring" would be "saang" and "raang,"
resptectively  though I'm not quite sure what sound you're
representing by "aa." But what about "rang" and "sang"?

Any difference in sound between the last words in "I gave her a
'raang'" and "The phone rang"? Or is the whole "ring, rang, rung" (and
"sing, sang, sung") distinction lost?

Catlady:
> 
> A 'safe room' for a 'high wind event' sounds like a storm cellar to
> me. A concept I first encountered as a child watching The Wizard of
Oz movie. It's not the same kind of 'safe room' as for floods.
<snip>

Carol responds:
"High wind event"? Can't they just say "hurricane or tornado"? In any
case, a requirement for storm cellars or fallout shelters or anything
of the sort would never catch on in Arizona because the caliche is too
hard to dig through. Houses are built on cement slabs. When a "high
wind event" (say a microburst) occurs here, all we can do is stay
inside and hope that a tree isn't blown over. (A pine tree did fall on
and crush my covered parking space a couple of years ago. Lucky I
wasn't parked there at the time!)

Carol, pretty sure that Grawp's American cousin was responsible for
that uprooted tree