[Mari]

Steve,

A half an hour to the hospital? Wow.
It is good to hear that helicopters are sent out.

Mari

[Mari]

Hi,

On Wednesday, My aunt and uncle's house burned down to the ground in a four alarm fire (from basement to attic).
They are safe and staying at my cousin's house.

Their pipes froze so my uncle tried to unfreeze the pipes by using a blowtorch.

The house had been built about one hundred thirty years ago so it had no separation between the walls (like houses now a days do) and so the fire moved quickly.

M

[Dmom3005]

Mari

I'm so glad your aunt and uncle are okay. Its a big problem around here
too. We have many with frozen pipes.

I will be posting on my facebook page to be extra careful after reading
your comments.

Donna

[Dmom3005]

Well we are having all kinds of weather.

On Tuesday it was negative -17 at one point, the -11, then -1.

I don't honestly think we got on the other side. I know for
some reason my husband is enjoying trying to go to work outside
in this. So they his crew stayed for about 3 hours trying to get
their generators and all working.

But then after awhile they all as they had decided left. The foreman
bought them breakfast.

Then on Wednesday it was negative, then positive, but I don't know how
high. I do think that was the day it got to 7 or 8.

Then yesterday wow, we had a heat wave. It got to 20 then back down.

Today right now its 14, I know its been colder. And not sure what we are expecting.

I'm hoping next weekends weather is what they were predicting for us.
Derrick and lots of others are doing the Polar Plunge at Purdue on the
22nd of February. Brrrr I'm more than pleased to only be a virtual
plunger.

I just wish I'd been able to raise more than $150 for him. But with
my need to get to $75 we did good.

Donna

[Dmom3005]

Oh my gosh, we are getting the snow also.

Ugh, tell it to stop.

Donna

[bizi]

When is winter going to stop for you donna.?
((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))
bizi

[bizi]

oh mari how awful!
bizi

[DiMarie]

Oh Mari how terrible! blow tourches are so bad for frozen pipes. Ds tried that once during the winter and I flipped. My bil burned the front room of the homestead where my beauty salon was located years ago. That home is well over 100 years too.
Glad they are safe, but it has to be so sad for them.

I have a portable heater that is like a hair dryer and we used that this week when the weather plummeted and froze the pipes. The heat tape failed agin, we need to replace it and home is only two years old, a modular.

I have 32" of snow on the ground, and it's snowing now. There are icicles hanging near 6' long. Sitting home today hoping it clears by this afternoon when the men are working.

[bizi]

6 foot! wow I remember that as a kid and us licking them, not that I think about it....yuck!
stay warm
and safe
bizi