Want to know what we were doing last night? Praying our house didn't catch the wind and burn with the tool shop and shed.
The wind came up yesterday and a gust possibly arced the power lines to the shop and sparked a fire in the work shop, spreading north to the garden, storage shed on to the fuel tanks and on up into the trees. It all went up in an hour and the rage was over within an hour and a half. The shop and shed are about 30 feet from the house. The house got hot enough it broke windows on the west side of the house. Thank God for His direction of the wind, that it didn't get to the house, and it went around the fuel tanks full of $3000+ diesel.
The fire department was here until nearly 2 am watching hot spots and making sure there were no flare ups. They left a portable water tank in the yard and the dogs are thrilled to have a new pool. They spent all night jumping in and out of it, so the firefighters say.
Dave busied himself with driving a fire line with the disc and shoveling a line inside the trees. We had lots of help from neighbors till the fire trucks got here. Mostly, all I could do was wait for the flames to go down on the buildings and try to keep the house cool and wet, and watch for sparks that might land on the roof. It got very hot and broke out some windows on the west side of the house. Scary couple of hours, but God changed the direction of the wind just as it was getting close to the house. Now we clean up the mess and start planting trees. Make our lists of what was in the buildings, look for replacements and rebuild (farther away from the house).
Pictures below, and a link to the album
http://picasaweb.google.com/imnanner/Fire
And from the cynical side of me I did a video. Click here to view it.
And from the cynical side of me I did a video. Click here to view it.
