Every other Wednesday, our friends Bill & Christina make the trek down to our area to grab some beers with whomever can make it from “the group”. Well, this Wednesday’s meet was cancelled due to a truly unfortunate situation. Before I start, I’ll just preface this by saying they are fine and safe.
Bill had come home to find that their house was on fire. Him and Christina got out safe and the kids were not home at the time so all are safe. But their pad is half destroyed. The boys bedrooms are toast along with a good portion of the basement and bathroom.
They will be displaced for around 9 months as contractors basically gut it and rebuild. They will be renting a condo for the time being and luckily it’s super close to their old pad so it won’t disrupt their routines too terribly.
The damage was immense though. Even the rooms where no flames came close to touching weee covered in soot. It’s an absolute shame and they are understandable banged up about it. They actually spent Thursday evening at our house as I think they just needed to get their minds off of it for a bit.
They will rebuild and pick up the pieces. They will overcome this tragedy but man...it’s pretty unbelievable. I told them that when they get back in, that we want to donate a ton of cool collectibles for the boys new rooms as pretty much all of their possessions were demolished. We will do our part to help make it better than ever.
I believe we will be helping them soon in moving out whatever they want to salvage as the rest will be left for the contractors and cleaning crew to take care of.
What a crazy scenario...
