| Lisnaholic |
10-30-2021 05:28 AM |
That's a terrible piece of bad luck to come from one bl**dy faulty dishwasher connection, Plankton! I'm so sorry to hear what happened to your house. As everyone is agreeing, you had the interior looking so nice. That wasn't achieved without a lot of thought and effort, I'm sure.
I'm sorry you if you are going through a lot of aggravation and disorientation right now. Rebuilding from something like that will take a lot of patience, I'm afraid.:(
I recommend some disc golf to remind yourself that life's good things are more our friends and experiences than our possessions.
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Originally Posted by Plankton
(Post 2190036)
A couple of things that are clearly amazing through all of this:
- No one was injured.
- My fish survived even though they were in the area engulfed in flames.
- My external hard drive (that I've been storing all of my recordings on for years and was sitting under that mess in the living room) booted right up this morning. I immediately backed it up. I thought I had lost all of it.
- My Vox Tonelab survived after being under all of that same mess of water, drywall, and insulation. I thought that was a goner too.
Anything that was above chest height, even in the back bedrooms, was hit by the intense heat and either warped or melted, but most things that were near the floor and not in the area of the dishwasher weren't effected by the heat, so other than smoke damage, they're salvageable if I'm willing to put up with the smell for a while. This accounts for why my fish were ok and my electronic gadgets survived. My Uke and PRS were simply victims of fire fighting. They had to ventilate to keep the place from becoming an oven where everything above and below just cooks.
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Yes, the best is to focus on the positive points; the fish and the computer stuff, which, for many of us, is where a large part of our lives is played out these days. |
