My morning started with a bang, literally. I had a lot of dental work yesterday and was sick most the night, so this morning decided to sleep in. I was awoken around 11 by the sound of a large explosion that shook my house. This was the seen out my back door. Since I bought my house 16 years ago I have been evacuated 4 times because there was a possibility of a fire* but this is the first time one of the grain elevators actually blew. They gave us two minutes to evacuate so I left my house with photo albums under one arm and my cat under the other. About 1/3rd of the town and all of the business district was evacuated. The four restaurants, two grocery stores and three convenience stores were all in the evacuation zone, so we spend about 10 hours wandering around without food or homes. I was allowed to return home about ½ hour ago. Fortunately even thought three buildings burned there wasn’t any damage to homes and there were no more explosions. This time.
Anybody want to buy a house? :dubious:
*No the people who sold us the house didn’t warn us about this.
You mean it was the scene. Just fightin’ some ign’nce.
Damnit an I even remembered to preview this time. :smack:
Anyway, sounds like a very crazy 10 hours. I, for one, will not be buying your house. Sorry.
Back in February '02 when a pretty big proportion of San Diego County was burning, the evacuation zone reached the edge of a neighborhood that bordered on where my best friend lived. I thought, “oh, man, I bet she and her family are standing out on the patio taking pictures of the fire that’s about to envelop them…”
So I called her. I asked her what she was doing and she said…
“My family and I are standing out on the patio taking pictures of the fire.” :eek:
(Turned out they were OK, and the police had instructed them not to evacuate. Of course, the police might’ve just wanted them to burn–they were in the projects–but in any event the fire didn’t reach their neighborhood.)
what a terrible way to spend your day, for both you and your poor cat. 
my advice is to put that house up for sale as soon as possible. you may as well get SOME money out of it before you lose everything in a fire.