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Originally Posted by piemma
I have a phone number. I'm pretty sure this is the number he called me from this morning.
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Thought you guys would want to know that I got an email from Mt Wanderer (a guy on this board) who is donating a laptop to Raven. Nice jesture on his part.
If anyone knows Raven personally, which I don't, please let me know if I published the right number for him. Obviously, it's not his house number as there is no more house.
Paul
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first thing you can do for me is
to
not call the above number
because it belongs to my
SISTER in law...
and the phone was just a loaner until i got a new cell phone [
giving it back today ]
MY number is
774 200 3607 ....
but go easy on me...
i have so much to do now it's insane...
my work load has just quadrupled....
no water... to drink..
& no power... at the farm..
we're staying at a Motel for this week...
that'll change soon however..
Luckilly the big tanker truck BODY out in back of my barn has 1000 gallons of water in it
...so i siphoned water from it to keep the garden from turning into a friggan
BRICK
so all is well there.... hundreds of plants... to water
in times like these...
you just need more moral support
to make sense of it all...
i've been drinking beer like water
after maybe 1 a day...for years...
i'm kind of in the
anger phase now
a trailer will be moved on the place hopefully
on friday thats furnished...
and insurance will cover everything...
all my fishing gear was spared...for the most part... the boxes themselves got scorched though ... they'll get replaced...
unfortunately [ rescuing the wedding pictures..]
when coming down the wet stairs that are carpeted
my feet slipped out from under me
and i went bumpity bump bump all the way down and slightly fractured my left elbo
but now it's only just a little sore...
but i had to go get x-rays and document it
...just in case...of troubles later... but no biggy...
our fish in the tank got boiled...
the cage birds were killed
but quite thankfully
we had Star with us...
we had just gone to the grocery store
to grab
three items...
20 minutes there
20 minutes to shop
and -20 minutes to go back...
on the way back the
fire trucks were passing us...
we were following them back to our house
and each time they were making the same turn
we had to make ..........
we were getting
more worried...
that it was someone on our street...
as we approched closer...we saw they were parked outside
of our house...
we just couldn't believe it....
then you enter the denial phase....
it's very much like a death in the family
...as you pass through the phases
I have been meeting with the insurance guys..
contractors... point of origion => officials
red cross , cleaning company...
an endless parade...
i have no pictures because
the camera got melted..
we are happy to be alive....
i am un -phased ....nothing will stop me...
i will become stronger from this experience not weaker..
the other sad thing was loosing all of my mothers
paintings and of course all the sentimental things..
but all photos were saved...
all the tools were out in the barn
so mostly the 1850 farm house is lost...
and it'll all be knocked down...
and as PIEMMA said...
now you can rebuild it like the way
you want it.
in the near future when i say... anyone have a
spare spot in the boat... or on the beach
for some fishing?
i hope to hear ....yeah man --> head on up...
because as you can easily imagine...
it's going to take
a lot of time on the water
or standing it it
and some really good memories
to help make
this memorial weekend of 08
to....fade away...
thanks very very much to
my S-B family
for all your kind words...
and moral support...
bye for now....
your friend always,
Raven
ps
until i get a new ISP and the trailer set up
i'll check in occaisonally at the library.
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