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Thank you everyone for your kind words and also for all the people that have called to check on me...especially my mom who blew my phone up after hearing it on the news  and my two best friends that kept calling for updates. 
I just got back from going to see the fire. They are letting people over there now. It is barricaded off but you can see where the fire burned. It's nothing but ashes as far as the eye can see with some trees still standing in the back and off to the right. There are six small fires still burning. There is some type of a crew stationed there with a huge telescope from their truck scanning the area. The amazing thing is this...the fire burned right up to the back of the neighborhod...literally right up to people's backyards. After I posted this thread it downpoured. It was like this storm suddenly erupted to help put out the fire...then it just went away. It didn't last long and after a while the sun came out. The firefighters told the people that lived in the homes along the woods that twenty more minutes and it would have been all over. If it wasn't for that rain...their homes would have burned. It's one thing to hear that...it's another to stand there and see it. There are a bunch of people still just standing there in awe of how close it came. I guess lightning struck and started the fire and since fire trucks couldn't get back there they had no way to put it out. They were depending on helicopters to pour water and sent in firefghters to do the best they could.
I love living where I am, but it does put some things into perspective. My neighborhood is its own community. When you enter into the community you drive down a main road. Off that main road there are little neighborhoods...small subdivisions. I'm sure you guys know what I am talking about. We have our own schools, church, fire department, etc. I live in the back where it dead ends and where all the new development is. Behind all of us is nothing but woods. My house was built in July/August 2002 and they are still building around me. It is peaceful and I do love it...but seeing that fire today was a huge reality check. I have no intentions of moving, but I also acknowledge that a fire is something that could happen in the future because that damn thing was right up the street...walking distance. I just feel bad for the people that live on that side. I still have trees to look at outside my back door...their backyards are nothing but smoldering ash. I'm sure that they are thankful though. Rather have that to look at from home than no home at all.
Once again...thanks for your prayers. That was some scary shit. Hard to believe that it hasn't rained in forever and when we needed it the most it delivered. I don't think I am going anywhere tonight.
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thats some crazy shit rigth there.. glad to see everythings alright
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