Landie Bea and Wayne - Update

Good Morning to all -

If there is anyone on this list that doesn't
know, Ladie Bea & Wayne's house has burned. And so sorry for the
delay in passing along info. As luck would have it, Wednesday was
Veteran's day, and the fire marshall and insurance people were all
off work so nothing happened that day. They didn't get to meet with
anyone until Thursday. Very frustrating.

First of all, they both are overwhelmed by the kindness, concern,
love and prayers expressed by all of you in this unbelievable
situation. As much as they would like to see each and everyone of
you, they are still spending much of their day with insurance
people. I'm going to pass along everything I know, if only to
alleviate the burden of them having to repeat the story a hundred times.

As you know, the house burned on Tuesday night. Two different
neighbors had seen the smoke and called 911. We were at dinner and
all headed home around 9:30. They came over the hill to the house to
find 6 fire trucks filling the street in front of their house. First
thought was that there must have been a terrible accident. When they
realized what was happening, they had to get the dogs. The fireman
was not going to let them near the house, and as LB argued with him,
Wayne snuck down the service drive on the side, got a fireman in the
driveway, and took him to the back where the dogs were. The fireman
busted down the door, Wayne called the dogs and, thankfully, they
came to him.

We stood in the street until about midnight, when they then let us go
down and look, and OMG. The main room, kitchen and west side
bedrooms are pretty much destroyed. The curvy hall, their bedroom
and the rooms on the east side of the house were not touched by the
fire but everything, and I mean everything, all the way down to the
washcloths in the cabinets are charred with smoke damage. A
restoration company was there first thing Wednesday morning and
believe that a good bit of stuff in the rooms outside of the fire
damaged areas are savageable.

The fire marshall has determined that the fire was electrical and
that it started on that little side porch behind the guest bedroom on
the southwest corner of the house. All the artwork in the fire
damage areas is destroyed. The insurance people have determined this
as a major structural damage (duh) and now have three different teams
assessing the damage, which will take more time. No one can touch
anything in the house until everything is catalogued and assessed so
there is nothing anyone can do except wait. When the time comes for
help, I can assure you the call will go out and you can jump right in.

If you don't mind, continue to use me as a contact person. Feel free
to call me any time - 830.3756 and i'll tell you anything I know.
Their computers are probably destroyed so they have no access to
email but we're working on getting something set up soon. If you see
that I don't have someone on this list, please forward.

Again, thank you for everything, especially your prayers. I'll
continue to update as I know more.

Susan

email: complements@mchsi.com

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