Dec 20th, 2018 : Half Baked T
Ron Westbrook, a 74 year old retired Costco worker in Paradise, CA, had a heart attack followed by open heart surgery.
When he went to the hospital a couple weeks later for a check up, the staff said fire’s coming, hospital’s closing, GFO! When he and the Mrs got home the Model-T Ford he paid $16,000 for a year ago and now had a for sale sign, was on the trailer hooked to his Silverado pick-up at the end of the driveway. They gathered a couple changes of clothes, then debated taking the Silverado and trailer but decided getting out was going to be a zoo so they took another pickup leaving the Model-T et al behind. They watched their home burn on CNN. What do you think that feels like boys and girls? http://cellar.org/2017/modelT.jpg When they were finally allowed to return, the house was gone, as were all the neighbor’s houses. Their garage was gone leaving a couple of burned out car hulks, in fact they lost everything… except the Model-T, trailer and Silverado sitting unscathed under the pines right where they left it. Oh, and the fire spared that strange green lawn ornament. The Lord works in mysterious ways. :smack: link |
There are a lot of stories about how a fire can take on the behavior of a living creature. In this case, purhaps it saw a an "old one" still existing, and decided to leave it in peace.
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Yes, it mentioned in the article there was an old El Camino down the street that was unscathed while everything around it was destroyed. I guess cars are more resistant to the flying embers when they are out in the open and aren't in a garage or parked on/next to a flammable surface. Talk about the fickle finger of flames.
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