Fire!

Our weekend was eventful to say the least...

Saturday afternoon we were at home enjoying our weekend when Jud felt the house rumble, he thought that a plane or something was flying over head, when he stepped outside to look for what had made the house shake he saw that there was black smoke pouring out of our chimney...this may sound normal but we did not have a fire burning...at least not in the fireplace. He came inside and told me about the smoke, asked me to turn off the furnace and headed down stairs to check out our old oil burning furnace. Moments later he came barreling up the the stairs and told me to call 911, the furnace was on fire and flames were shooting out of the ducts. As I got 911 on the phone I scurried around the house to get shoes and coats, we got Tilly and the dog out (Cooper was at his grandparents). Jud got Tilly to the neighbors. You can read her version of the day HERE.

About 5 trucks from our little town's volunteer fire department arrived about 10 minutes later. We stood out in the snow with others from the neighborhood and watched as the firemen worked.

The fire was contained to the furnace and basement, but oil and soot came blowing out all the vents in the house leaving black oily residue and a nasty smell.

We are so thankful that the furnace did not blow during the night and that we are all safe and sound. We are staying at my aunts house for now (she is on vacation in Belize this week). Hopefully I will know more about how long it will be before we can get a new furnace and get the placed cleaned up once I meet with insurance tomorrow.

Please pray that everything will be covered by insurance and the process will be swift.