Thank you everyone for the kind posts, prayers and thoughts. I am functioning on 2 1/2 hours of sleep since Friday night so please ignore anything that's weird.
Rich and I are staying at a hotel for now.....basic hotel, 1 bed and that's it so we get cabin fever quickly. We actually went back to our house for a while this afternoon so we could sit in our screen gazebo by our pond for some sanity. As posted earlier my friend and I found both cats and put them in a bedroom until I could find a kennel for them this morning. When I stopped by the house in daylight today I discovered that bedroom's screen had been yanked out by the firefighters, our yard was pitch black in the wee hours of the morning so neither of us noticed then. So my newest concern was that the cats were in a room but the window was wide open and it had no screen. One cat came right to me but the other couldn't be found. I went back to the house twice during the day to hunt for her, hoping she was just hiding extremely well and not that she had gone out the window. I put some wet food in there and when I went back home for the 3rd time tonight to check the food had been eaten so at least I knew she was in the room. Our son came by to help me find and catch her. Between the 2 of us we finally did but now I am clawed big time on my arms and hands, poor kitty is so so scared! :'( But I got her in a crate and she is waiting till the kennel opens tomorrow so she can join her 'brother cat'.
We both need to check in with the dr. tomorrow to have our wounds redressed. Rich can not put any weight on his foot and is on crutches so can not drive. He actually had vinyl flooring embedded in the sole of his foot......OWIE!!!!! He will be off work for a while, will find out how long during the dr. visit. No news from our insurance yet. In the light of the day even I was stunned by the damage and I had seen some of it after the fire was put out. I will post pics at some point. The kitchen ceiling and soffits above the cupboards are gone, the ceiling fan melted, we had vinyl faced cabinets and they are all melted, the heat exploded the entry door glass and it's spewed all over the back porch, basement stairs and kitchen floor. The kitchen floor has about 1/2 inch of standing water, hardwood floors in living room and hallway are water damaged, basement has water on some items, yet to be determined if that is leakage from the kitchen floor above or just from the water from the fire hoses, the entire house has smoke and water damage....every wall and ceiling is black now. Our bathroom is 2 rooms away from the kitchen and the mini blinds at the bathroom window melted. Totally unreal how much damage occurred in a pretty short length of time.
Please continue the prayers for insurance work to process quickly and for Rich's foot, oh and for insurance to find us a residence hotel so our dogs can stay with us. A very dear neighbor is keeping them at her house for the time being.
None of you will ever know how much it means to me to have you there for me.
God bless you all!!
Cath
