Yep...Apparently they didn't care enough about the place to at least cut the grass...LOL!
Posted on 08/04/2024 12:50:56 AM PDT by CFW
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, was teary-eyed and fought back her emotions talking about her family’s loss this week of her childhood home, which went up in flames when Wyoming’s largest wildfire roared through the Haystack Range.
The Hageman homestead, a rustic cabin-like structure with plastered walls and built into the side of a hill near McGinnis Pass, Wyoming, was destroyed by an uncontained wildfire in rough terrain littered with huge granite boulders and tinder fueled with juniper pinions woodland and sagebrush.
“It’s been pretty devastating,” Hageman told Cowboy State Daily.
Back in Washington, D.C., doing what she does there, Wyoming’s lone U.S. House member was preoccupied with upsetting late-night telephone conversations with her brother Hugh and older sister Julia in Torrington, who lives closest to their 100-year-old mother, Marion, in a local nursing home.
Matriarch of the family, Marion Hageman, hasn’t fully grasped the family’s devastation.
“I just saw her a couple of days ago when I was home. I’m not even sure she even knows about this fire yet,” said Hageman of her mother.
“It was a very old log house, with very thick walls because they didn’t split the wood. It was very cold in the wintertime,” she recalled. “We had one woodburning stove, and we would take Montgomery Ward catalogs when we were younger and put them on the stove and heat them through, and then wrap them in fabric and take them to bed to stay warm.”
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Say a prayer for those in the wildfire's path.
I wouldn’t tell the 100 year old about the loss of the family home. What good would come of that?
My folks lost their home in Los Alamos, NM in the July 20, 2000 Cerro Grande “prescribed” fire. The State was liable and paid for some 132 homes including my mom and dads. Still very heartbreaking.
It’s been a hot dry fire season in the west. Fire crews are stretched to their limit. My son is one of them; three days of rest since June 1.
None, I agree.
What a heartbreak. That can never be restored.
Looking at the picture of the “home”, it’s just a decaying shack with sentimental value only.
Yep, several dozen firefighters from North Carolina are in California aiding in fighting their wildfires....
It is pretty devastating- have been through it myself, and it’s not fun by any means. So much gone in the blink of an eye almost. But we survived, and the haggermans did too- so still much to be thankful for.
You say that like it's no biggie.
“The State was liable and paid for some 132 homes including my mom and dads. Still very heartbreaking.”
They are very lucky. My county REFUSED to evacuate or warn us because we were senior CITIZENS and might get”confused”. They had hours to warn us.
I lost everything and have to pay back emergency catastrophe funds to the Biden regime plus $10,000 interest. They decided 3 years later that it was a loan. They take part of my social security checks every month even though I paid all of it! They refuse to stop or even talk to me.
“Looking at the picture of the “home”, it’s just a decaying shack with sentimental value only.”
Which can never be replaced and worth more than any monetary value.
Yep...Apparently they didn't care enough about the place to at least cut the grass...LOL!
Looking at the picture of the “home”, it’s just a decaying shack with sentimental value only.
= = =
Post it as a B&B, at $1000 per night, and it will be filled with ‘migrants’ instantly.
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