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Dec. 15th, 2013 01:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyjanellyThanks to everyone who commented on my last post. I will try to get to some individual answers later, but there's still a ton to do before my husband goes back to work tomorrow.
Here is basically my fb posts from the last few days, to update everybody on what's going on:
12/12 We're currently living in the Marriot Residence Inn in Richardson. It is swank. Like a tiny apartment with a fully equipped kitchen, linen and maid service, free breakfast bar every day and an evening food-thing 4 days a week. Looks like we'll be here for at least a month. We should know then how long the house will take to fix/replace, and if our housing allowance will stretch that far. Sam's company is catering our food for the next 2 weeks, and after that we'll be in NC visiting my family for Christmas. Space is a little tight for storage and clothes and toys, etc. The little bit I bought for Sami on the first day just about fills her area. I think it'll be good, getting used to having less stuff before we have a big house to fill with crap. Hopefully we can achieve a less cluttered life after this.
12/13 Today we went and salvaged all of our worldly possessions from the house. It was less than 2 car loads. We've filled about half of a 5X5 storage unit waist-high. This is sad. But freeing. Fresh start. Better habits.
Apparently I lost more data than I thought. There was a moment when I almost went back into the fire to grab the laptop because of my writing, but didn't because I have Dropbox. But now I'm opening files and they weren't all up to date. I'm using Scrivener, which saves all new data every few seconds, and it was saving to files in dropbox on my desktop, but apparently it was only going to the cloud when I would actually close a scrivener file? I've got one fic I'm going to have to recreate from the bits I had sent to my cheer-leader, and a few others have lost 2-5000 words. (UPDATE: My god-daughter's fiance has taken all the computers and thinks the hard drives should be fine. He's a hardware guy, so he's doing what he can to move the data over. We'll see soon what I've lost).
The insurance company's fire inspector went through the house and has said it's definitely the central heat's electric furnace that caused the fire. There were about four code violations in the wiring--jumping from one breaker to another, using the wrong wire, etc. They were drawing 90 amps through a 10 gauge wire. He's just surprised it didn't burn down earlier. The insurance company is suing the AC company for us, and whatever they get, we'll get our deductible back out of that, plus if there's any shortfall between our homeowner's policy and the cost of rebuilding, that'll be covered too. Our house burned down because they cut corners and rigged stuff together instead of using a $50 part. That just sort of breaks my heart.
12/15 Piffykins wasn't dealing well with being away from momma, so we brought him to the hotel with us (it's okay with the hotel). He's doing a little better. Whenever I leave the hotel, he cries and then hides under the bed. He's eating a little bit if I'm there with him, but hasn't emptied a normal food-dish since we got him here on Friday night.
I went out with my friend Chad and got some pricing estimates on the last stuff for the inventory. I found Sami's school photos from last year in decent shape, so brought those home. Sam wants to go look for one more box he's thinking about, and then I think we're done there.
Here is basically my fb posts from the last few days, to update everybody on what's going on:
12/12 We're currently living in the Marriot Residence Inn in Richardson. It is swank. Like a tiny apartment with a fully equipped kitchen, linen and maid service, free breakfast bar every day and an evening food-thing 4 days a week. Looks like we'll be here for at least a month. We should know then how long the house will take to fix/replace, and if our housing allowance will stretch that far. Sam's company is catering our food for the next 2 weeks, and after that we'll be in NC visiting my family for Christmas. Space is a little tight for storage and clothes and toys, etc. The little bit I bought for Sami on the first day just about fills her area. I think it'll be good, getting used to having less stuff before we have a big house to fill with crap. Hopefully we can achieve a less cluttered life after this.
12/13 Today we went and salvaged all of our worldly possessions from the house. It was less than 2 car loads. We've filled about half of a 5X5 storage unit waist-high. This is sad. But freeing. Fresh start. Better habits.
Apparently I lost more data than I thought. There was a moment when I almost went back into the fire to grab the laptop because of my writing, but didn't because I have Dropbox. But now I'm opening files and they weren't all up to date. I'm using Scrivener, which saves all new data every few seconds, and it was saving to files in dropbox on my desktop, but apparently it was only going to the cloud when I would actually close a scrivener file? I've got one fic I'm going to have to recreate from the bits I had sent to my cheer-leader, and a few others have lost 2-5000 words. (UPDATE: My god-daughter's fiance has taken all the computers and thinks the hard drives should be fine. He's a hardware guy, so he's doing what he can to move the data over. We'll see soon what I've lost).
The insurance company's fire inspector went through the house and has said it's definitely the central heat's electric furnace that caused the fire. There were about four code violations in the wiring--jumping from one breaker to another, using the wrong wire, etc. They were drawing 90 amps through a 10 gauge wire. He's just surprised it didn't burn down earlier. The insurance company is suing the AC company for us, and whatever they get, we'll get our deductible back out of that, plus if there's any shortfall between our homeowner's policy and the cost of rebuilding, that'll be covered too. Our house burned down because they cut corners and rigged stuff together instead of using a $50 part. That just sort of breaks my heart.
12/15 Piffykins wasn't dealing well with being away from momma, so we brought him to the hotel with us (it's okay with the hotel). He's doing a little better. Whenever I leave the hotel, he cries and then hides under the bed. He's eating a little bit if I'm there with him, but hasn't emptied a normal food-dish since we got him here on Friday night.
I went out with my friend Chad and got some pricing estimates on the last stuff for the inventory. I found Sami's school photos from last year in decent shape, so brought those home. Sam wants to go look for one more box he's thinking about, and then I think we're done there.
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Date: 2013-12-15 05:50 pm (UTC)I'm impressed by your insurance company - I hope they continue to be properly supportive as they have been so far and I really really hope that AC company get exactly what they deserve!
*hugs and best wishes*
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Date: 2013-12-17 05:27 pm (UTC)