Re: The Greatest Programs of All-Time: #1-#59
Tragi-comic epitaph to my wife's story regarding the 2002 Hayman fire and a "correction" to what I said about it.
She and her then husband had "sold" this house the same week the fire occurred (prior to it, obviously--who buys a house with a fire bearing down on it?). My wife's first husband had taken a job in the Tampa. They had packed up ALL their belongings and it was all boxed, ready to go on the moving van, in their stand alone garage, which was not particularly close to the actual residence.
With the fire threatening them, their home, as well as their garage, they were evacuated. The Hotshot Fire Crews made a stand on their property, saved the house, and allowed the garage burn to the ground, not knowing that everything (important) they owned was in it.
So, my wife lost everything she owned (property-wise, obviously) of any value to her. Pictures, documents, you name it. Whatever you'd put in boxes, packed to move, she lost it all.
No great loss without some gain, as Laura Ingalls Wilder's mom used to say in the "Little House" books. The original buyers backed out of the purchase but one of their neighbors, who'd also lost their home to the fire, immediately thereafter, bought their home.
Tragi-comic epitaph to my wife's story regarding the 2002 Hayman fire and a "correction" to what I said about it.
She and her then husband had "sold" this house the same week the fire occurred (prior to it, obviously--who buys a house with a fire bearing down on it?). My wife's first husband had taken a job in the Tampa. They had packed up ALL their belongings and it was all boxed, ready to go on the moving van, in their stand alone garage, which was not particularly close to the actual residence.
With the fire threatening them, their home, as well as their garage, they were evacuated. The Hotshot Fire Crews made a stand on their property, saved the house, and allowed the garage burn to the ground, not knowing that everything (important) they owned was in it.
So, my wife lost everything she owned (property-wise, obviously) of any value to her. Pictures, documents, you name it. Whatever you'd put in boxes, packed to move, she lost it all.
No great loss without some gain, as Laura Ingalls Wilder's mom used to say in the "Little House" books. The original buyers backed out of the purchase but one of their neighbors, who'd also lost their home to the fire, immediately thereafter, bought their home.
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