greybeard
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Heard the truck sirens around 10pm last night out on the highway and then they shut off but I couldn't tell if they were just out of hearing or shutting off when they turned down the lateral road that runs parallel to my place about 1/4 mile thru thru the woods. Turned out to be the latter. I heard 2 booms not long after the fire trucks went thru, either propane tanks or stored fuel of some kind in the garage. May have been electric pole transformer but my power didn't blink off. One of the old families home place. The old man had died 2 1/2 years ago, his wife was in poor health so his daughter moved her mother in with her about 1/2 mile away. No one living there but they left the power on and grown son and daughter kept the place up for the most part. They didn't want to sell it while their mother was still living, in hindsight they probably should have. House was already old when we bought here in the 60s but not one of those 120 yr old places. A shame to see it go nonetheless. A cold front came thru yesterday afternoon, with t-storms, lightening, 2 inches of driving rain and wind so no telling what may have happened earlier in the day .Fire depts here are just to keep the fire from spreading so not much chance saving it.
Hard to guess what caused it but probably wiring, since it was unoccupied. Squirrels, mice and rats move in and eat the insulation off the wires and PooF! up it goes. Bad time of year to have it happen too.
Hard to guess what caused it but probably wiring, since it was unoccupied. Squirrels, mice and rats move in and eat the insulation off the wires and PooF! up it goes. Bad time of year to have it happen too.