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Fires, floods, robberies, and falling trees.

It’s been quite a week for my wife and I and our extended family…

First of all someone backed into my car a week or so ago and dented the driver’s side door up pretty badly. Luckily they notified us of it instead of running off, so their insurance is covering the damages. The door has been replaced, but the paint doesn’t match, so I’m taking it back into the shop this week to have them repaint it and try to blend it in better.

We also sold my wife’s car last week and bought a used Jeep for her, leaving us with very little money in the bank because of the downpayment and so forth.

Then last night I got a call from my wife saying that she thought the house was on fire, so I told her to call 911. She did, and the fire department came out and put the fire out. Apparently the lint from the dryer was backing up under the house somehow, and had caught on fire, and it also caught some insulation on fire. Luckily my wife caught it in time and they were able to put it out without much major damage. We’ll have to have an electrician come out and repair some exposed wires though, before we can use the dryer again. Also I think the dryer got burned, and will have to be replaced.

After the fire department left we heard a hissing sound coming out of the main air conditioning vent, so we took it off to look for the source of the noise, and found a water leak under the house. We had suspected it since last month, because our water bill was 4 times what it normally is, but couldn’t find a leak anywhere. Well now we found it… Apparently the water pipe goes through an air duct at some point, and someone didn’t cut the hole big enough so the pipe has been rubbing against the sharp metal edge of the air duct for 30 years, and it finally broke through the pipe. So now we have to replace 4 feet of water pipe. And we don’t have water ‘cause we turned it off to try to save a little on the water bill until we can get it fixed.

When the fire department came a neighbor also said lightning had struck very near our house, which I think may have possibly started the fire, but who knows. Anyway, now our TV is not working very well, or the VCR, I can’t tell which. It just looks like the cable is scrambled, but it looks fine on the other TV. And my cable modem no longer works apparently, and the sound on our other DVD player has stopped working. Tonight I’m going to spend more time testing everything to see exactly what has been damaged, but for right now it looks like it’s a DVD player, a VCR, a TV, and a cable modem. And of course the dryer.

After all of that I got a call that my grandparent’s house had been broken into, and some valuable coins taken.

Before that, a tree had fallen on a covered trailer of my mom’s, cracking the roof and causing water leaks.

And yesterday, a water pipe burst at my in-laws house, and they had to spend six hours in the mud trying to fix that.

I find it quite strange that all of this is happening within a week’s amount of time… Very strange indeed.

Don’t forget about your computer shutting itself down every few seconds since everything happened.