July Chat Thread: At least it's not June anymore.

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Tremek: Jun 10, 2005

Thanks for all the good vibes guys. It�s been a weird few days and it�s going to be a weird few months.

A little singed but not too worse for wear. If I had left it another minute in front of the garage I�m confident it would be gone.

I came back in the morning yesterday to find the Mercedes had been dragged out of the garage, and that the structure of the front of the garage had been cut down overnight by the fire department. They had left some volunteer search-and-rescue kids sitting in a truck watching the wreckage in case something flared up, and apparently the Mercedes started smoking again so they called a wrecker to pull it out and then the FD cut down the unsafe front part of the garage.

You can also see in that picture all the exposed gypsum used as a fire break between the garage and the house that I didn�t know was there. I was told by half a dozen disbelieving people over the past 24 hours that the �house must have been built right� to survive the fire, and I guess I�m not going to argue with them at this point.

You can see there�s unspent ammo, bullets, and shell casings all the way out at the front of the garage from where it cooked off. I had to break down the fence with my hands while the fire was raging to get my dogs out and all the while I could hear rounds cooking off. Thought to myself I was going to get injured/shot by my own drat ammo while it was happening, but luckily didn�t.

Maybe that cheesy license plate surround was really CF after all...

My tractor is a bit scorched. So are the trash cans.

We�re so lucky we didn�t lose the entire house. You can see where it had penetrated the eaves and was headed into the attic. There�s a pic of the FD hanging out of my kids� window with a hose, spraying up in there.

TLDR, total forking shirtshow. We�re not harmed (aside from one of our dogs who I�m taking to the vet in a few hours, might have sprained his leg hopping through the fence I pulled down but I think he will be ok.) Just displaced. My kids are all weirded out but we�re at my in-laws (again ... we were here for 6 weeks at the end of 2017 when we began this stupid adventure of starting to remodel this dumb house, so it�s a bit of deja vu.)

Going to try to select a remediation contractor today and get the process underway. Nobody knows how it started, and I think that bothers me more than anything. Makes me feel uncontrollably unsafe.

Tremek fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Jul 2, 2019

# ¿ Jul 2, 2019 10:05

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 12:11

Tremek: Jun 10, 2005

Rottie has a ruptured ACL. The words $5k surgery were floated by the vet. Taking him in for the surgery consult tomorrow. Also:

We formally closed on the house April 30th, and it appears the title company hosed up sending the year�s prepayment to our homeowners insurance out of escrow. It was sent to the wrong address, so therefore the insurance company cancelled the policy without telling anyone, and of course as insurance and taxes are paid monthly by us as part of our payment, all this was completely out of our control, so that�s in limbo and we are exploring our potential legal options in the meantime while Safeco decides if they�re going to play ball or dig their heels in. What a week.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2019 05:46

Tremek: Jun 10, 2005

Strange coincidence; as all this poo poo went down on Sunday we had a friends-couple over (they had lost their dog to cancer on Saturday, we didn�t realize this while at the music festival and were trying to be good friends and give them company and to get them out of their house - did not foresee inviting them to a disaster...) and one of them is a practicing malpractice attorney in our state. He�s aware of all the chaos that went down and is taking place and the general consensus is Safeco�s inaction at this time is more likely a result of their due diligence and bureaucratic machine kicking into gear and doing the calculus of whether cynically its more cost-effective to own this now or to spur on what undoubtedly would be a drawn-out legal battle that would get even more expensive for them quickly at the end of the day.

Also, JPMC bought our loan almost immediately after we closed with the funding lender, and that�s another looming specter over all this as undoubtedly JPMC will be Not Happy with the funding lender, title company, and Safeco/Liberty Mutual. We made our first mortgage payment to the funding lender, the second auto-drafted out of my Chase checking account as of Monday, so if nothing else there�s a very clear paper trail of us the homeowners doing the right thing here.

We�re ok generally speaking, we�re staying at my in-laws in the (very) short term, and even if Safeco wants to make this as hard as possible (which I doubt at this time given the indications I�m hearing about their interaction with the title company) and go to war we should be ok.

Powershift posted:

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The bullets are 40 grains, the cases are about 10, that's 0.65 grams. Heavy airsoft pellets weigh .2 grams.

They probably wouldn't have even broken the skin.

Uh - the case and bullet weight matter a lot less than the energy of the volatiles inside...

This wasn�t predominantly 22LR, which only has something like 1-2 grains of powder - there were something like 4K rounds of 223/556/762, all of which average something like 25 grains of powder and have bigger primers too. It was all rounds I had accumulated over more than a decade when it was cheap.

Tremek fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Jul 3, 2019

# ¿ Jul 3, 2019 10:21

Tremek: Jun 10, 2005

meatpimp posted:

That's a next-level shitshow, Tremek. I wish I could say something of help or guidance, but you're into pro territory now. At least there's a clear and known plan for the doggo's rehab.

Thanks, hopefully. Our Newfie is staying with aforementioned friends and loving the attention:

But I don�t know what we�re going to do to help my rottie. He is the goodest of boys and loves everyone but my mother in law is crazy and has this little whateverpoo mix who I and all of us get along with fine, but she�s convinced that my ravenous deathbeast is going to eat him and she has the vapors over this etc etc. It�s absurd and a function of her undiagnosed but obvious narcissism/borderline poo poo she�s got going on, but I digress.

Pictured - ravenous deathbeast in happier times... He�s at the vet overnight getting good drugs and TLC.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2019 11:12

Tremek: Jun 10, 2005

Beverly Cleavage posted:

Let's not tempt fate by saying this on the SAME PAGE we're still talking about Tremek's experience.

I�d say too soon, but

Is apparently my life now

# ¿ Jul 4, 2019 05:31

Tremek: Jun 10, 2005

STR posted:

Why do I have Billy Joel stuck in my head now

Yeah well I�d trade a lot to not be in this situation, 0/5 stars.

Taking the kids to Great Wolf Lodge for the holiday. They have been really awesome this week and we need a break from staying with the in-laws. Rottie is with my dad who loves him for the foreseeable future, hoping we can get some clarity early next week on next steps.

Oh and work which has been fantastic still needs me to present to a room of executives for a multi billion dollar corporation next Wednesday, so I guess I�m buying a new suit tomorrow maybe? As everything I own reeks of fire musk. It�s so bad I have to try to not retch when I open the front door to the house.

nm posted:

June was a bad month for E63 AMGs

Hope that one can get back on the road, but if not it probably did its job protecting occupants.

The insurance adjuster for Ameriprise (car, not house insurance) called me on Tuesday and said she had Googled the fire, and was like uh yeah I�m not even going to need to send an appraiser out to you, I�m sorry this happened etc etc.

Yesterday I got a hug from a random Petsmart employee, and a dog food rep insisted on buying a couple of bags of treats to send home to my dad�s. On the whole people have been really amazing and I�m so appreciative of the friends and family and community we�re fortunate to have.

Tremek fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Jul 4, 2019

# ¿ Jul 4, 2019 10:55

Tremek: Jun 10, 2005

Olympic Mathlete posted:

You must be good people Tremek, sorry this poo poo has landed on your doorstep :/

Thanks. I sort of flippantly said to my wife yesterday, �maybe [re: our friends� response] this means people don�t think we�re total assholes!�

I feel pretty pathetic right now though. Randomly crying in the hotel bathroom in the middle of the night isn�t a good look.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2019 11:45

Tremek: Jun 10, 2005

Retail therapy:

What a weird week.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2019 04:50

Tremek: Jun 10, 2005

Somewhat Heroic posted:

Tremek that is a spicy truck. Does this mean the 200 is gone?

Oh no, keeping the 200. It�s paid off and in spite of being run into multiple times, hail, and now fire, it just keeps on tickin� - gonna keep it until the wheels fall off.

I figured that since we are unexpectedly back in construction mode and that the Mercedes is defunct, may as well have something more useful again for the tasks at hand. I�ll get a sporty car again eventually.

With all that said this truck is really stinkin� nice (as it should be considering how drat much they are.) Aside from my dad�s pickup which hasn�t run since I have had it, this is the first pickup I have had. Also the Recaros are the best ventilated seats I have ever sat in.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2019 18:38

Tremek: Jun 10, 2005

ilkhan posted:

Ammo that isn't in a barrel just makes a little pop. Bullets fire because there isn't anywhere else for the gas to go but to push the bullet. If it cooks off without that support around it the brass expands and the bullet doesn't go anywhere.

Just a little FYI.