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Well, money seems to be getting really tight for some of the unemployed...

We have been having a rash of copper thefts - central pivot irrigation systems are stripped of the power and control wiring, and they are taking the wheel motors too. This is costing many thousands of dollars - some are even being stolen a second time.

Then, we just had a family with 5 kids who were moving into a new house, and it blew up! - totally! They were all home and several of them have severe injuries (father has broken back in 2 places and both legs had compound fractures, wife was burned and a broken arm, one boy had a broken arm and leg, and the other kids were blown out through a window and only had cuts and scrapes.

Seems the copper thieves had pulled all the copper tubing gas line out from under the house, and when they turned the gas on, BOOM.

Hardware store is selling lots of motion detecting floodlights with cameras in an effort to capture the culprits.

Hope others are not seeing this type of thing starting in your area...

Also, gotta be careful as we do our self-sufficiency things too... Wife’s cousin’s son, wife & daughter lost their house to a fire last week - fire started in a storage area where they had set up a brooder for a batch of chicks. They had seen our chickens and decided to raise some too.

Don’t know if they had it too close to flammables or bad cord or what...

Just gotta be careful! Fortunately they were not home when it happened and a neighbor saw the flames and called it in.

Please everyone, be careful!

That is so sad.

They are stealing copper out here too.

A couple years ago, they stole a bunch from a cancer clinic in San Diego and it shut the clinic down, had to rebuild their fancy units for the chemo.

Fire scares me, it is so final.