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Wow. That is some serious stuff. Good luck on getting back to normal and by all means if there is anything that you need then let me know.
 
So sorry for you loss. Glad to hear everyone is ok. Please let us know if you need anything.
 
As so many have already said, I'm very glad that everyone including the dogs got out safely, however very sorry to hear of the loss of home and obviously vehicle. I hope the insurance will cover it and you all can get back to where you were soon.
 
Sorry to hear your home was lost to the fire. To hear that everyone was home at the time and yet made it out safely is a true blessing!

Hope you maybe had a fire safe for your important docs. I've walked people back inside to look for important docs and those things help the progression to the next level.

Stay strong brother!
 
Glad to read that your family is safe and sound. Let us know where we can send you a few replacement smokes.

-Mark
 
Wow I am so sorry! From your neighbor next door here in 'Bama, if there is anything we can do to help please let us know...we had a friend that lost everything he had in a fire a few years back and it is just devastating to go through...I could not imagine...but you have your family and that is first and foremost the most important thing.

Hugs and prayers your way...

Melly
 
Sorry to hear about the loss, but really glad everyone made it out safe. I hope insurance takes care of the things that can be replaced.
 
Thank you to everyone for their comments here. We are moving along well in getting ourselves resituated.

For an update, things are coming together well. We are lucky to live in a community that really comes together to help out in times like this. The entire university was notified through the staff council as was the School pf Pharmacy. I'm also blessed with a large family who have started to complie things for my parents to bring from Texas. Local churches and The Red Cross have also helped greatly. We were renting the house and our landlord has another house down the road that he offered to let us lease without the deposits as well as not charging us for June or July. The insurance process has been started and we'll see how that goes. Most importantly we know where we will live, have beds to sleep in, food on the table, and clothes on our backs. The rest we will reaccumulate. One upside is alot of the crap we've been carrying around and I couldn't convice myself or my wife to get rid of is gone.

We went in the house yesterday to salvage whatever we could. I drove my wife crazy during this because I kept humming "Burning down the house", which she did not find partucularly funny. Luckily the room with all our important paperwork was the least damaged. All the papers were in a filing cabinet so mostly undamaged by the water and smoke. We were also able to recover most of our family pictures. Many of the things I've picked up in my travels were destroyed, but that just gives me a good excuse to travel the world some more so I can replace them. All in all I think we will be back on our feet faster than I had intially thought and it is through the kindness of others that this is possible.

Again, a heartfelt thanks to all those that have kept un in their thoughts and prayers.
 
James, how old are your kids? My two have books and stuffed animals that get little attention anymore. Just wondering if a box of that stuff could be put to good use by yours? Let me know please.
 
Update- We are fairly close to normal now and this is thanks to generous people in the community and friends we have. My wife has more shoes than I remember her ever having and the boys have lots of new clothes. We have taken advantage of the opportunity to replace some items with things we would rather have. I replaced to old coffee set up with a burr grinder and a French press. I ordered a 28 bottle wine fridge, 1.5 lbs of beads, and a new hydrometer yesterday. The old hydrometer is not working well as it reads 28% rh but the sticks seem a little on the wet side. Smoke may have screwed up the sensors. I also got the chance to upgrade my vehicular status from:

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to:

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Our boys got some old dressers from my mom and got to pick the colors they were painted. The youngest son got the LSU set and I'm working on his brother's Dragonball Z set.

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So all in all it has been a crazy couple of weeks here, but we are all doing fine and back to our daily routines. Since it was requested earlier, I've updated my profile. Thanks to everyone again for your thoughts and prayers during this time, maybe that's why I never went nuts......or maybe I was already there.
 
I'm happy to hear this James. I don't know how the heck I missed this the first time around, but I am very glad that things are looking up.
 
I started reading this thinking it just happened, but then saw the thread date. :( I'm so glad to read that things are working out and that your lives have turned the corner on this situation. :thumbs:
 
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