Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Aftermath

The morning after the fire we woke up at 8:45 to the sounds of torrential rains. Anything that hadn't been messed because of the fire and the water from the firefighters, was now getting poured on. I think both of us were tempted to just crawl under the covers and never get out of bed. But, there were fish that needed our help, so we got up and got ready. It stopped raining as we left and we got to the apartment just as the landlord was about to open it up for us. Anthony had seen it the night before, but I hadn't and I was absolutely amazed at the damage. My first thought was that it looked like a cross between the hurricaine Katrina disaster and Pompeii.

The actual fire was pretty much contained to the crawl space between the ceilings and the roof. In huge sections there was no ceiling anymore and giant holes in the roof. The beams were blackened and in the bathroom, kitchen and living room there were huge chunks of ceiling on the floor and everything was coated with soggy insulation. I'll do a few separate posts with the pictures from each room.

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