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Post by mom on Mar 17, 2024 8:43:15 GMT
Update 3/17 - after 20 days of fires, they are 100% contained. Yaaay!!
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christinec68
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Post by christinec68 on Mar 17, 2024 12:40:16 GMT
Update 3/17 - after 20 days of fires, they are 100% contained. Yaaay!! Great news!!
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RosieKat
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Post by RosieKat on Mar 17, 2024 13:43:03 GMT
Yeah! That's great news! Honestly, that went quicker than I was fearing, and I'm glad I was wrong. Now to figure out how to best help everyone recover.
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Post by KikiPea on Mar 17, 2024 14:53:24 GMT
Update 3/17 - after 20 days of fires, they are 100% contained. Yaaay!! OMG that’s fantastic news!!!
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Post by mom on Mar 17, 2024 16:03:24 GMT
Yeah! That's great news! Honestly, that went quicker than I was fearing, and I'm glad I was wrong. Now to figure out how to best help everyone recover.My husbands best friend owns a few restaurants here in town so we helped them serve food the other day in one of rural towns most effected. My house burned when I was in High School so I was kind of prepared for seeing the burned homes- but it was just my house that burned, not land and cars, etc. I wasn't prepared for the level of destruction we saw. Just miles of black and nothing (more 'nothing' than normal. We don't have many trees, but there really are none now. No mesquite bushes, no spring flowers popping up). Texas has really stepped up in helping these towns get back on their feet. Ranchers are still hauling hay from south Texas to up here to help with the cattle, A&M sent vets to help the injured livestock, water is piled up because so much has been donated. The real need right now is for insurance companies to get their act together and get to paying out claims. There is a big fight brewing --- because the electric co has accepted some responsibilty for starting the biggest fire, insurance companies are dragging their feet paying claims. They are wanting homeowners to go to the electric company to get reimbursed. But thats going to take months, if not years, to get actual money from them. And in the meantime, homeowners are basically screwed. It's a mess. Then on top of that, the electric company is only wanting to cover the claims from the original fire and not for any 'off shoot' fires that started as a result of the first fire. So people are having to basically bend over backwards to prove when their land/home/livestock actually caught fire and burned and prove it was a result of the original fire. It's a nightmare, really.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 17, 2024 16:10:03 GMT
So glad the fires are contained!
Sure hope they get the insurance issues taken care of ASAP!!
Does FEMA fall into the equation?
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Post by 950nancy on Mar 17, 2024 16:15:55 GMT
I thought of you this week as I shoveled 5 times. How different our worlds are when we are about 5-6 hours away.
So happy it is all contained. We get big fires like that in the dry part of the summer.
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RosieKat
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Post by RosieKat on Mar 18, 2024 19:02:04 GMT
Once the electric company said it had come from a power pole, I knew this would turn into an insurance mess. It seems like it should work like car insurance when the other party is at fault, where you get paid but then your insurance sues the other party's insurance. But since these are, ya know, only people's entire lives, why would we do that?
I hope I'm wrong, but I'm convinced that pieces of this recovery will still be in courts 10 years from now.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Mar 19, 2024 3:34:16 GMT
That’s pretty amazing that they are 100% contained already. Yes I know it’s a long time but here bug fires usually are cute rained that fast and none have been that big.
How horrible for everyone in this mess I hope they get it straightened out soon for those effected.
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