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Survival Skills Title: Fire - Medford - Phoenix -TalenT - Oregon ... I - AunTB ---- losT everyThing Fire Medford, Phoenix, Talent, Oregon. I lost everything 9/11/20 Auntb I got a call from my son in Calif about 1 pm Tuesday. He was listening to police scanner.. said a fire was coming my way... didn't make sense, this area has never had a fire. It's the city! I went outside in our beautiful peaceful Sr. retirement village to a bank of thick smoke and saw a raging fire. It seemed 10 miles away. The wind was whipping in every direction and took me off my feet several times. I've been through this before living in the woods of No. Calif. I was prepared then. This home was in the city... I prepared for that. Not for this. I immediately ran to the neighbors homes to warn them. They mocked me. No one would budge. I tried to water my house and house next door who were gone camping. NO one ever warned anyone. There was NOTHING on local radio and TV. NOTHING. Was I being silly? I am disabled and in pain, not to mention being 70 years old and weighing 95 lbs. So I decided to grab Bugs the cat and what I needed for 2 or 3 days of evacuation. The cat can't go to a shelter. I was met with a 4 lane wall of evacuees when I tried to get on the main street. It took me 5 hours to drive 25 miles. Finally spent the night in the car in a parking lot in Rogue River, Oregon, then drove to a friends where I can stay a few days near Eugene, Or. On my way, the manager of our park called to say my home was gone. Nothing left. Only 5 of 55 homes were standing. No firefighters were available, but the manager finally got there and got the people to leave. I had called him first and he was stuck in evacuee traffic. He had no warning either. 100 old people plus several more parks were left to burn with NO warning, but he finally got them all out. We have no rentals in this area, no motel room left, one full shelter, and NO one is providing any assistance to anyone. I got out with the clothes on my back and Bugs the cat. It looks like Dresden. But the insult of losing everything isn't enough. I remembered Facebook and the pictures of my ancestors and long gone family was still there!! I tried all night.. no facebook without passwords....I didn't even take my computer. I lost it all. The post office charges you and demands a credit card to forward mail. My bank even burned down. I pray my neighbors all survived. But I have no idea where we all will go. You can't even rent without 'papers'. Thank you Free Republic. You are the only place I could get into. This post required a URL, so I gave my blog, which I will never be able to access again. It was a great run! Thanks, Jim Robinson for the soapbox. 1 posted on 9/11/2020 by AuntB Poster Comment: gonna donaTe To: bray; All Thank you so much, everyone. My neighbors are so hurting. No one is helping them. I promise the money will go to the most needed help. Billie Nix When we dial the FEMA # which is where ALL agencies send us it says NOT AVIALABLE. Try it. 8006213362 It’s absolutely unbelievable. We are spread all over the state from the Medford AREA and NO other county will even consider talking to us...ONLY residents of their county. 176 posted on 9/18/2020 by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!) Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread |
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