JMT Wildfire Relief

It's a really nice home base. We close August 28. I hope all goes well. I need to buy tons of stuff.

My former supervisor lost his home, and his surrounding neighborhood in the 2015 Cobb fire. When the smoke settled, he told me he had a strange sense of relief not worrying about all the stuff he had accumulated over the years. It was like a cleansing sort of feeling. I didn't quite understand what he meant at the time, but as I thought about it more, I understood a bit of what he was saying. I'm not sure how this may help with your situation, but I think taking your time on getting "more stuff", might take on a slower sense of urgency. I have no personal experience, yet, in this, so take what I say for what it is. We had a close call in 2018, and were evacuated from our county for 15 days. We were fortunate to have an RV at the time and was able to flat tow the Jeep out and hunker down at an RV park for the duration of the evac.
 
My former supervisor lost his home, and his surrounding neighborhood in the 2015 Cobb fire. When the smoke settled, he told me he had a strange sense of relief not worrying about all the stuff he had accumulated over the years. It was like a cleansing sort of feeling. I didn't quite understand what he meant at the time, but as I thought about it more, I understood a bit of what he was saying. I'm not sure how this may help with your situation, but I think taking your time on getting "more stuff", might take on a slower sense of urgency. I have no personal experience, yet, in this, so take what I say for what it is. We had a close call in 2018, and were evacuated from our county for 15 days. We were fortunate to have an RV at the time and was able to flat tow the Jeep out and hunker down at an RV park for the duration of the evac.

Since getting married, every time I've moved I've fantasized about burning down the house with everything in it.
 
When we first moved to our new property in Oregon I cut a road into the center and plopped my truck camper on the slope above where we planned to build the house. I built a porch on the back for a little more room. All our stuff was in storage for a year.

It was really nice not to have a huge house to clean. And it was really nice not having all this shit we seem to accumulate everywhere.

I give my wife crap all the time about her box of shoes from high school that she hasn't touched since we moved here 12 years ago. Then she goes after my tools and grabs something and says I'll bet you haven't used this in a while...to which I usually tell her exactly what I used that tool to fix and when.

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Well... my friend who got very lucky and avoided the fire burning his home down was finally allowed (legally) to return to his home this morning.

He's been sneaking in at night to grab clothes etc.

His small area had fire on all 4 sides at one point but somehow survived.

Oh yea, the fucking "authorities" always throw their weight around after any kind of a catastrophe. Fuck 'em.
 
Wait, is that your new house? How the hell did you move in so fast? Oh, and also that's a badass garage btw.

Because he is a well established, non cheerleader chaser type person..... ;) ;););) plus his insurance company probably would rather him be in a house, instead of them paying for a motel for the family.
 
Wait, is that your new house? How the hell did you move in so fast? Oh, and also that's a badass garage btw.

When he described their quick exit, he mentioned taking hours to drive all the vehicles to a friend's house. Then, just a few posts ago, he said they were closing on August 28. Since it's still a couple weeks until that closing date, I'm thinking that's Jeremy's friend's house. What a wonderful friend to share an empty, huge garage!
 
I thought he said somewhere that they were renting the house that they're buying?

I very well could have missed that part, still if thats the case the insurance company would rather pay the rent on something you are willing to buy instead of tossing it at a motel.

When I lost my house, the insurance company paid for the motel as a fast solution for us, then bought us a single wide (used that we picked out) for us while we rebuilt the house.
 
Thank you for all your prayers and gifts.

We were able to close on a home late afternoon today. It has been a grueling week with no complaints. Just a few frustrating moments where we all came back together. God has been so good through His people, many of them from this forum. We can never thank you enough

We have a long way to go. It’s good news we don’t have to move anything, but difficult to imagine we don’t have simple things like a drill or box cutter, much less beds, couches, and a TV. All in time I suppose.

Thank you for kindness.

Found it, they were able to close on a home......
 
This is happening really fast. I haven’t dealt with insurance much yet. Haven’t had time. Will get to it once I’m secure in this place.

We’re renting it till closing, which was Aug 28, but may move up one week if the builder finishes his stuff.

The garage is great.
 
Wait, is that your new house? How the hell did you move in so fast? Oh, and also that's a badass garage btw.

Well, there was nothing to really move. I know what you mean though. Realtor is a friend of mine. I moved money for down payment and got documents for pre-approval. Once we found house we negotiated quickly. My problem to solve today is a lot of the money hasn’t “clearanced.” Well, there are a lot of problems to solve today. I just wish I could sleep.