Posted on 09/11/2020 3:20:09 PM PDT by AuntB
I got a call from my son in Calif about 1 pm Tuesday. He was listening to police scanner.. said a fire was coming my way... didn't make sense, this area has never had a fire. It's the city!
I went outside in our beautiful peaceful Sr. retirement village to a bank of thick smoke and saw a raging fire. It seemed 10 miles away. The wind was whipping in every direction and took me off my feet several times.
I've been through this before living in the woods of No. Calif. I was prepared then. This home was in the city... I prepared for that. Not for this.
I immediately ran to the neighbors homes to warn them. They mocked me. No one would budge. I tried to water my house and house next door who were gone camping. NO one ever warned anyone. There was NOTHING on local radio and TV. NOTHING.
Was I being silly? I am disabled and in pain, not to mention being 70 years old and weighing 95 lbs. So I decided to grab Bugs the cat and what I needed for 2 or 3 days of evacuation. The cat can't go to a shelter. I was met with a 4 lane wall of evacuees when I tried to get on the main street. It took me 5 hours to drive 25 miles. Finally spent the night in the car in a parking lot in Rogue River, Oregon, then drove to a friends where I can stay a few days near Eugene, Or.
On my way, the manager of our park called to say my home was gone. Nothing left. Only 5 of 55 homes were standing. No firefighters were available, but the manager finally got there and got the people to leave. I had called him first and he was stuck in evacuee traffic. He had no warning either. 100 old people plus several more parks were left to burn with NO warning, but he finally got them all out. We have no rentals in this area, no motel room left, one full shelter, and NO one is providing any assistance to anyone.
I got out with the clothes on my back and Bugs the cat.
It looks like Dresden. But the insult of losing everything isn't enough. I remembered Facebook and the pictures of my ancestors and long gone family was still there!! I tried all night.. no facebook without passwords....I didn't even take my computer. I lost it all.
The post office charges you and demands a credit card to forward mail. My bank even burned down.
I pray my neighbors all survived. But I have no idea where we all will go. You can't even rent without 'papers'.
Prayer Warriors:
Please send your thoughts and prayers...and any other help you can give...to AuntB in he time of need after losing so much to the Oregon fires.
You are definitely in my thoughts, Auntie! I pray that since you posted this, you have gotten some help from the authorities in charge and have heard from your insurance company. I also pray that all your friends have survived this dreadful fire.
Like every other state we are controlled by the big cities that always seem to grow into liberal cesspools. Once they control the state their liberalism starts migrating to other states to infect. Like California has infected Oregon, both states were strong Republican in my lifetime but never again without CW II, then only if they lose.
I was just wondering if the scheduled riots are still a go! /s
Florida has had a serious wildfire problem in the past, too, and we continue to experience them on a regular basis in the Everglades affecting the southeastern and southwestern sections of the state. Even now there are several problem spots though not anywhere near the extent as California, Oregon and Washington. I remember a particularly bad season in the 90's because all the attractions gave away free admissions for months to all the Florida firefighters and their families in appreciation for them all pitching in to fight the fires raging across the northern and middle parts of the state. To be honest though, I'd take hurricanes over wild fires any day!
I hear you. I have ancestral ties to Roseburg, OR. We normals here in illannoy are screwed by shitcago/crook county.
“It appears you don’t come here for the hunting.”
Sorry to hear of your troubles.
Add my name to the list of those ready and willing to help. Send me FReepmail if you want or need help. Give Bugs a scratch behind the ears for me.
“local transient” is code for bum or homeless.
I was stationed outside Chicago on a Nike base in 57. I often drove a 2.5 ton with missiles in tow down outer drive. Picked up lead dimes and quarters there couldn't imagine anyone bothering with such a pittance, because I was making so much at $85.80 or so a month, before the First Sgt had his hand out at the end of the pay line for his favorite charities.
“The cat can’t go to a shelter.”
The cat or dog can go to a shelter or else someone is looking at dentures and I have a shelter for me and my cat/dog.
You are all wonderful. I am safe and being taken care of by a dear friend. I have laryngitis from the smoke of a week. I wish you could see the pictures. I’m in need of time right now more than anything and I’ve never been so busy. I’ve given lots of thought to your generous offers, and please share with all the others. Most of my loss was because I was ready for anything but this. This area has never had a fire. I moved out of that stress years ago because I was too old. But I failed to increase my insurance after years of remodeling. No ones’ fault but mine.
But being the only person to warn a neighborhood, cost me all I’ll ever have. I would love to have your generous offerings put in a fund if one of you can set that up. I just can’t right now. Typing is a torture.
Thinking is worse.
That fund will be for my 55 neighbors of-———
Sr. VILLIAGE, PHOENIX, OREGON* and a few surrounding ones, for those not as lucky as I. I have been offered a home. And be aware it may go to fund finding out WHY we had NO warning. Those decisions have to be made later. If that is agreeable to you, I promise I will be fair to those most in need.
* I will share the name with one of you on email when you contact me. Hesitant to give the name too publicly. Need advice.
THANK YOU FREEPERS
May God’s hand guide you Aunt B...
I will get a Post office box today to mail to. I have to be careful with the little cash I have left. I can’t think of another way without giving out my personal information. I will NOT give one cent of this $ to any internet BS like pay pal or go fund me. These tech giants have used us all enough
No one understands what busy work this is. I cannot speak laryngitis. I cannot go outside. I’m trying
Maybe this will help you understand my problem.
Call my county for resource #’s...takes a WEEK
Fema...# is wrong
State...referal service only...every# they give is wrong except United way application...but it’s NOT for victims is for organizations to sign up to help!
THERE IS NO HELP only frustration! OH...but theres a BLACK LIVES MATTER Banner to help them on every damn page!!
Thank you so much, everyone. My neighbors are so hurting. No one is helping them. I promise the money will go to the most needed help.
Billie Nix
P.0. Box 1074
Cottage Grove, Oregon 97424
When we dial the FEMA # which is where ALL agencies send us it says NOT AVIALABLE. Try it. 8006213362
It’s absolutely unbelievable. We are spread all over the state from the Medford AREA and NO other county will even consider talking to us...ONLY residents of their county.
Finally got the FEMA # to work!! got disconnected. lol
Oh, my goodness, I had no idea! I live in Grants Pass, 35 miles North of you.
I didn’t know we had a Freeper who suffered the loss of her home in the Alameda, so close to us.
No one got a warning signal. I have friends in Eagle Point and CJ, the county didn’t send out the warning signal.
I’m sorry for your loss, AuntB. I can’t afford to help you, but the church I go to, Edgewater, is helping people.
Ed
You're in our prayers...
Many of you are offering clothes and goods. I won’t be able to transport clothes to anyone. I’m 3 hours away from home, the only place I could find to sleep and on call trying to find a way to get to salvage anything if and when I can hire someone to help me.
I’m down to 94 lbs. I finally made it to a goodwill..they wouldn’t even give me a discount! This is impossible. NO Help for us! THey gave the Hawthorne park to BLACK LIVES Matters (all from out of town!) protesting and camping there...refugees from the fire can’t even stay in our park!! They are bringing food and services to BLM!!!!!! It;s insane.
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