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Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on August 29, 2011 at 9:40pm

So in case I forgot to mention.

 

My parents and a few of my siblings and there families live in Vermont.  Severe flooding, mudslides, etc. from Hurricane Irene took over the entire State.  Check out the news footage for vermont  - worse flooding in 84 years. This storm covered the entire State, equal opportunity offender. Houses washed away, businesses washed away, entire trailer parks gone, and super sad lots of historic bridges and buildings which are hundreds of years old are gone.

 

My parents and brother have houses on top of high hills - so their individual homes are not under water - and they lost power for only a few hours each.

 

My sister's house is on a mid-level mountain surrounded like an island by an ocean of water - her entire city has been (is) under between 5-25' of water. She has not had power in a few days.

 

My extended family is spread throughout Upstate New York - and they are also under water - destroyed their crops, all the basements are flooded, and several first floors of some of my relatives homes - none of them have power.

 

Chief Mike happens to also be in that general area of Upstate New York too - so I bet he is working his tail off.

 

Throughout Vermont and New York, a substantial number of roads are closed from water coverage, mud coverage, or the roads and bridges are gone altogether - washed down the river.

 

At last report all of my family members are safe!!!

 

My brother is fire chief and my sister and her husband also run fire/rescue so they are also quite busy scurrying around rescuing people, evacuating entire hospitals, jails, and everybody everybody everybody. And an endless number of people are just trapped in their spot because their are no roads to use - including fire / rescue workers and trucks being stranded away from their stations and even their own towns.

 

Complicated mess...

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on August 29, 2011 at 12:47pm

p.s. I also quarantined all visitors from my house since May... and I visited in public places - so I did not carry any buggers anywhere else... and no more moved in : ) since my city is under invasion...

5 out of 8 houses next to mine have been fully tented and repeatedly exterminated to get rid of the smarmie little buggers - at $15,000 a pop !!!

and some houses it is taking 3-4 rounds of tenting :(

so I am sooooooo happy it took me about $1000 and 1000 man (people) labor hours - to get it done - but no tenting, no exterminator, and no $15,000 ++++ bill

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on August 29, 2011 at 12:43pm

Good Morning everyone ! Hope you all are well !

I am officially reporting an end to The Great Bed Bug Hunt & Slaughter of 2011 - I do believe I AM THE WINNER - it has been 4 weeks since we have seen hind-nor-exoskeleteon of their existence in my home... 'BOUT DAMN TIME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now maybe I can start to put my house back together.

1) Super heated my whole house 3 times
2) Hand steam cleaned my entire house 10 times
3) Threw away 1/3 of our stuff
4) Put 1/3 of our stuff in black plasti trash bags in the yard in the 100+ F degree weather - to cook
5) Threw away the offending mattress hide-outs (think they started when my housemate got a used bed and brought it into my home)... the remaining mattresses & box springs were bagged in mattress bags and duct taped shut - and next time I move all of those bagged mattresses will just get thrown away
6) Washed all of our bedding in super hot water over and over and over
7) Washed all of our clothes in super hot water - or ran them through the super hot dryer - over and over and over

and I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OVER IT....

and hopefully... I am not pre-mature in declaring myself the winner of this Hunt & Slaughter !

Thank you for all of your support and suggestions and listening to me regale my annoying tales...

Comment by Brian J. on August 29, 2011 at 8:35am

Thanks for.the coffee Ernie! I definitely need high-rev today! Got put on official stand by at 0200 Sunday. We were there earlier of course. Went to the typical storm related calls. One of our Rescues and EMS crews made a great save at the end of our stand by! Person went into cardiac arrest. While that was going on we got.dispatched to a structure fire and kicked its ass! My guys were first in and put it out! Nothing big, just a couple mattresses.

Comment by Bill Carlisle on August 29, 2011 at 8:24am

Morning all , Ernie thanks for the coffee the Hi-rev is for me lol hope all is safe and drying out

Comment by Ernie Scheinert on August 29, 2011 at 8:20am

Morning everyone!! Coffee is on, with a few pots of the Hi-Rev blend too, for anyone that is looking for that extra boost. Hope everyone along the east coast has been able to stay safe throughout the last few days.

Comment by Ernie Scheinert on August 28, 2011 at 10:18am

Morning BRC, hope everyone has made it through Irene safely!

HI IZZY!!!!! (leaps from the corner and smothers Izzy with hugs) HOW HAVE YOU BEEN!!!!!

Comment by Brian J. on August 27, 2011 at 4:45pm

Hey everyone! Getting ready to dig in for stand by for hurricane Irene! Will be heading to the station around 11 and there for the duration!

Kyle, be safe bro!

Everyone in the path of Irene be safe out there!

Comment by Izzy ( J. Bade) on August 27, 2011 at 10:07am

good morning crew. long time no see. coffee is on, raisin bread and other goodies to munch on. hope all are well. to all on the East Coast, be safe out there, let us know you're ok when you get a chance. hey Ernie, HI YA DOLL !!!

Comment by Ernie Scheinert on August 27, 2011 at 1:52am

Hope you all fair the weather and stay safe.

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