Holy God, I think I'm watching someone's house burn down...
About quarter of two (around an hour ago), I went out to change the bedding in the two chicken cages and the rabbit cage.
No sooner did I get into the garage, I hear sirens blaring. It gave me chills because it's been so long since I've heard them this early in the morning, plus that whole episode with Dad and the ambulance, plus, when I left Salem County, about the only time they'd blow the sirens at night was if the nuke plant melted or something. Anyway, I'm out there, in the dark of 1:45am, listening to these sirens. First there was just one, way off in front of me. Then, another one joined in, off to my left. I did two of the cages, then needed some water for one chicken, another trash bag and another pair of rubber gloves, so I came in, got the shit and went back out.So far, the whole thing has been about 10 or 15 minutes, maybe. I do the last cage, check everybody's feed and water, pack it up and, as I'm walking back up the sidewalk to the front door, I look off to the left, past the barns and I see a massive red glow. I also start to hear vehicle sirens converging on that general area. I stand there, staring for a minute... it's immense, this glow. I come in, grab my binoculars and go upstairs into the front bedroom we don't use and look out the window. Christ, now I can see flames... individual FLAMES shooting up every so often. Then, it hits me that this may very well be the cute little place I've seen when I was out on the horse.
Then, my gut chimes in with "electric heater".
Man... It was still glowing when I sat down here just now.
In fact, let me go look again... Okay, good... sky is dark, finally.
They must've gotten it knocked down, then...
Thank God. Hope everybody is okay over there... Wow.
Almost exactly two hours, beginning to end. I went out and heard the sirens around quarter of two and now it's quarter of four... Two hours and somebody's life has been fundamentally, dramatically and hopefully not "death-ically" changed. And, I happened to see it happen. Man. Okay then...
Just wanted to include you guys in this.
I didn't wanna know about it all by myself over here, ya know? Think I may be going out on the horse tomorrow afternoon.
Go see if it's where I think it is.
God be with them.... Peace
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Yikes. Hope everyone is okay.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 12, 2005 03:11 PM (QriEg)
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