CathyInBlue
Grandmaster
Call it the season for house fires. Call it urban renewal through happenstance. But, there seems to be a lot of house fires lately.
There was a house about two and a half blocks north from me that burned just a little bit and has been boarded up every since. Then, there was a child fatality in a house fire one block south and one block west of me about 4 years ago, and that place has stood vacant and boarded up ever since. Then, there was the little arsonist, Nate Johnson, who burned the house right next to mine last year.
Now, this year, the house direct across the alley from Nate's former digs/target burned as the temperatures started to dip. I didn't notice that fact (just catty corner across the alley from me) for about a week and a half. And just now, I discovered that the house across the street to the south from that child fatality has just burned in the last couple of days.
That gives a tally of five houses, four of which still stand (for want of a better word), within a 3 block radius from my base of operations.
And the kerosene heating season is just getting started.
So, how many burned out hulks do you have near your house?
(P.S. Burned out cars don't count, but motor homes might.)
There was a house about two and a half blocks north from me that burned just a little bit and has been boarded up every since. Then, there was a child fatality in a house fire one block south and one block west of me about 4 years ago, and that place has stood vacant and boarded up ever since. Then, there was the little arsonist, Nate Johnson, who burned the house right next to mine last year.
Now, this year, the house direct across the alley from Nate's former digs/target burned as the temperatures started to dip. I didn't notice that fact (just catty corner across the alley from me) for about a week and a half. And just now, I discovered that the house across the street to the south from that child fatality has just burned in the last couple of days.
That gives a tally of five houses, four of which still stand (for want of a better word), within a 3 block radius from my base of operations.
And the kerosene heating season is just getting started.
So, how many burned out hulks do you have near your house?
(P.S. Burned out cars don't count, but motor homes might.)
… Nooooooo.
I assume a lot of people are trying to heat with stoves and other appliances that aren't meant to heat a house, at least that's what the fire dept. lady says?
