While Greg was chaperoning at a youth stake dance recently, I was getting Nathan and Joshua ready for bed and got the feeling something wasn't right. I got up to lock the doors, and saw several emergency vehicles outside our front door. There turned out to be a fire in the apartments/town homes that are directly across the street from us...part of our complex! What started out to be one fire truck and a couple police cars turned into many fire trucks, a blocked off road, and a major undertaking! We watched them go from spraying with one hose into a first floor fire...clear to cutting a hole in the second-story roof and spraying water in from the extended ladder of a fire truck. It was quite something to watch it unfold with front-row seats on our doorstep. That night as it was happening, I guessed maybe 2 or 3 apartments were severely damaged. We read in the newspaper the next morning that 8 apartments were severely damaged and 16 total with varying degrees of damage. We feel so blessed to be safe an "unaffected"...but it surely has made us reevaluate and focus again on our level of emergency preparedness! (We obviously don't feel like the pictures do it justice!)
Just had to include a post of my flowers to show my mom! We've started pulling out some of our plants as the freeze-warnings here begin. It's just been so fun to have planted four little tiny "impatiens" plants and have them turn into this abundance. (Especially when I've tried them in Utah and ended up with just some little shrivels.) I think next year I'm going to plant these everywhere!
3 comments:
Miriam, looks like you guys had an adventure in your neighborhood. Scary. HOw do you go to bed after that. I love your scrapebook pages...so cute.
so dang scary! I definitely need to work on our emergency preparedness. I get sooo nervous with all this "stuff" going on in the world. "Fear not little flock" I heard it in conference today, and thought of you!
I am so glad that everything is okay with you guys! How sad for the others! For our pictures we edit, we use Abobe Photoshop Lightroom. It's awesome and has some fun things you can do on there! We love it!
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