The Story

A long time ago. On a cold and windy October day. Everything seemed to be fine. I woke up at 5:30am as I do every day that I have to go to work. I spend my time at work, and around 2:30 in the afternoon I get a call from my mother. This quite suprizes me. Mainly cuz my mother never calls me to talk. I answer the phone and the first words out of my mother's mouth were "Rob your apartment is on fire!" My initial reaction was like fricken sweet. Mainly because I am insured. Then I made it home to find my loving wife just about in tears. Then it really hit me we really just lost everything of value. We only had the clothes on our back and the stuff that was carried in our pockets left. But wait!  Who is this?  The Red Cross from Clarion County, PA. They helped us out with $225 dollars to get us some food and clothes. Later that same afternoon the fire companies finally finsihed their job. Now it was time to really assess the damages! Once we got inside it was worst than i originally thought. Everything in the living room was schorched, the walls, the celling, the floor, the tv, tv stand, my gaming console, my dish network box. The kitchen was heavly smoked heat and smoked damaged. The tempetures got so hot in the kitchen that it melted my fish tank that was 30 feet away from the main fire in the living room. Now as we walk down the hall to the other rooms, we noticed that one room on the left was basically untouched. But looking at the bedroom straight across from the one on the left. It was totally trashed by the fire. This was becasue the fire started on the out side wall of that bedroom. Smoke filled the whole apartment. We walked further down the hall and look in the bathroom. It looks as if they sprayed a foam everywhere in the bathroom to contain a fire. But then i noticed that my shaving cream can is busted wide open. It was a brand new can. Now with a bathroom destroyed, we dare to go look at the master bedroom. In the master bedroom we notice that our bed has gone from white to black our blankes covered with ash. Everything in the bed room soaking wet from the firefighters. Now after doing my complete walk through of my burnt apartment it was time to really think. I went out to my truck I sat in my trunk and was like wow did this really happen to me again? The last fire also happened in October. Although it has been nearly 20 years ago.  My wife finds me sitting in my truck. She enters my truck and asks me that stupid question that everyone ask when something is wrong. "Are you ok?" Well then just in that instant I hug my wife and we both started crying. Realizing that we have nothing. But after our emotions calm down we go to dinner at a lovely restaraunt in Emlenton, PA. Called the Emlenton truck stop. It is located off of Interstate 80 at exit 42. After dinner we then decide to stay at my mothers untill we can get things figured out. A few days later our insurance adjuster calls us and sets up a meeting with my wife and I at a local restaurant in Parker Pa Called Bob's place. Here at this meeting we talked about what went on and how it started. At the end of our meeting the adjuster gave us a check for $2000 as a starter to get things in some order. Now here comes the hard part going through everything you lost so you can write down and claim it under insurance purposes. Back through the horror story we go. Well after a coulpe of days we finally completed our list of things and turned it in to the insurance company. Well this is the part where thing start to look up!!! About three days later the insurance adjuster calls my wife and tells her that our estimated lost was valued at $9,025.68. After all having insurance really did pay off! But now comes the bad part again. We have $9,025.68 to spend to get everything that we lost. But we have no place to live. I mean yea we are staying at my mother's place. But thats not a place to live. So comes the search to find a place to live. Now that our lease is broke because of a house fire my wife comes up with the great idea that she wants to move back to Ohio to be closer to her mother. Which I guess I am fine with. I just don't like Ohio. The laws are all messed up The Weather in northern Ohio is worse than PA. And trying to find a decent job in Ohio is just about impossible. But I will do what ever it takes to make my wife happy.  Tune in next time for the rest of the story!!!