Boy, sure coulda been worse. So what time did this happen and which one of you were alerted fist?
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Heather's Heavenly Vapes - THE BIG THREAD (Part 5)
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And congratulations you are the 119,000th post. Go back and make it look nice!
The owner saw it first and her teenage daughters were just getting off the bus. Around 3pm. I heard tires screech and looked outside, saw smoke and grabbed the kids and ran out. At first I didn't know if it was our house or someone else's til we got outside.
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How long did it take the fire department to get it under control?The owner saw it first and her teenage daughters were just getting off the bus. Around 3pm. I heard tires screech and looked outside, saw smoke and grabbed the kids and ran out. At first I didn't know if it was our house or someone else's til we got outside.
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Took them quite a while to even show up (bad part about a volunteer dept. No one is ever at the station waiting) then probably 20 minutes or so to completely cool ours. 8 different departments total probably 50 men/women. I honestly don't remember how long it was til they had the flames mostly gone and it was about 5 pm they were still getting hot spots and smoke. We left around 6 to go eat when we knew they had everything they needed from us (checking inside for hot spots etc) and when we came back at 9ish they were boarding it up
@always9988 - What a crazy thing! I am so glad everyone is okay and your house wasn't damaged any further. Wow! And congrats on the millenial. Yours must take the prize for most unique prettying up with that pic of your house in it.
Always - I'm so happy to hear that you and family are OK and your neighbors too. I'd say that calls for celebration, millenium or no! You are probably still in shock What a terrible scary thing to happen. Wow.
Yeah it still doesn't feel real. I can't imagine losing everything like that. I'm checking into online sites to keep important documents and pictures on so if something like that happens here we at least have the really important stuff accessible.
Im always amazed at the power of infrared radiation.... from the picture, it looks as if there is a driveway between the houses. Thats got to be at least 20' from house to house ( unlike Nawlinz where the houses are 4' apart)...
imagine all 140,000 of your neighbors losing everything in 1 nite.... due to 10'+ flood waters its been 10 yrs since Katrina ( well minus a few days) doesnt seem like 10 yrs...... Retic, does it seem like 10 yrs to you??
is that "jingle/quote" that old from that long ago??? sheeshhhh I must be getting old AND senile.... where is the time going...Got to be at least in our 50's to appreciate this joke.
With all the paper shredding I had to do, I've also looked into paperless options. I already had Evernote. Then I got Scannable on my iPhone. It takes a photo and let's me upload it to Evernote, which lets me organize by Notebooks. I have an Auto notebook, Utilities notebook, etc.
Yeah just talked to her again. It was 30 ish minutes from call to 911 to the first firefighter showing up in his pickup, another 5-10 for the first truck with hose. Here's a few more from yesterday
Definitely can't even imagine. And I know many still haven't been able to rebuild. Awful
I've been using Google drive for resumes etc so will probably do the rest on that. It was always one of those "when I get to it" things, but now it'll be my priority next few weeks. I do almost all bill pay online anyway so thankfully most of the important stuff is already online. Technology is amazing isn't it?
It warped even stuff on the front of our house, I could feel the heat from where I was standing taking these.
Get those pizza rolls in the toaster oven.
Didn't eat lunch till about 4:00. And it was Chinese so I'm full. Am having a beer.
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