Mother Nature can be a dirty vengeful whore

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » August 10, 2005, 1:41 pm

Yesterday on the site I work on we had some bad ass weather.

I was sitting in a house doing some of the final touches before it closed today, and I looked outside because It started to rain really hard. I was just kind of glancing around watching everyone run for cover.

After about 5 minutes of torential rain, the sky got pitch black. This kept my interest so I stayed at the window. A few seconds later lightening started to strike about once every second all relatively close by, then like in a movie, one of the houses got struck.

When the lightening hit the house, it sent pieces of the roof all over the place and the house ignited almost instantly. The lady that lived there came running out immediately, (these people just closed on their house in the last few months, they are a young couple - late twenties, and this was their first house) and was unharmed. The fire was really bad, but luckily the fire department is about a 1.5 minute drive from here doing the speed limit.

The whole top floor basically burnt to shit, and by the time they got it put out, the main floor started to burn too. Not only that, but the house to one side of it got all the siding melted off of it, plus the sheathing as well. And the house to the other side of it, the whole garage and upper bedroom were burned down, and a little bit into the main part of the house too.

The three houses aren't the big deal - insurance will rebuild them in time. But what really made me side to my stomache is when the firefighters walked out with a box of what looked like charred photo albums.

Anyways, I wanted to post a couple of the crappy pictures I got with my camera phone, but I dont know how to as I can't just link them from sprint (it wont let me).

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » August 10, 2005, 2:55 pm

You need to email to pictures to yourself on your phone. I suck at this and I have no idea what phone you use - it's different for each one (I've had my phone for a year and still can't handle it).

Sad story

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » August 10, 2005, 3:17 pm

Kinda Funny thing is the house that got the siding melted off was our safety/warranty coordinator , he was supposed to close friday.

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » August 11, 2005, 4:08 pm

freaky, are there no tall trees or lightpoles around?

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » August 11, 2005, 5:56 pm

You know, thats the weird thing. There aren't many trees, just smaller ones as we have only recently planted them. But the big ass steel power line things are very nearby. And they are like 3 times the height of the house.

Burke · Post by **Burke** » August 12, 2005, 10:28 am

Dang, they musta done somethin real bad, cause God smited them right in the face.
Either that or the house is built on an Indian burial ground.