There is a joke making the rounds in one neighborhood - don't drink the water unless you want to add a set of twins to the family.
The water actually is just fine, but people are seeing double on Michelle Street, a three-block stretch with just 50 families but seven sets of twins. Twins normally occur once in every 80 pregnancies."There's a support system here," said Krista Stott. She and husband Tom are new parents and have often turned to their neighbors for advice on how to cope with 7-month-old Austin and Jordan.
Stott, who has 17 sets of twins in her family, was still shocked when she learned she was pregnant with twins.
The Debbie and Lamar Stucki family has a special place in the Michelle Street saga. Not only were they the first to move to Michelle Street nine years ago, but they also are the only family to have two sets of fraternal twins. They are the parents of 9-year-old twins Jason and Jennifer and 3-month-old twins Chad and Chelsea.
"It seems like you get one down and the other one wakes up - I'm always holding a baby," Debbie Stucki said.
The newest members of the Michelle Street twins club are Sheila and Kevin Keefe, who moved to the neighborhood four months ago with 20-month-old twins Melissa and Danielle.
"If they're ever both sick at the same time, it's a nightmare," said Sheila, who had no knowledge of the neighborhood's unique reputation when the Keefe family moved in.
The general reaction of the parents who "got two for the price of one" was tears, shock and disbelief, one exhausted mother said.
"I was really nervous at first," Rhonda O'Connor recalled. "When I found out I was going to have twins, it freaked me out totally."