Just Returned Home After Evacuation..

kindomind

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Hello fellow DIS memers :)

Some of you may have noticed that I haven't been around at all over the past week and a half. The first reason is great: The band I play in finally finished our first album and did a little tour of the Pacific Northwest to promote it a bit After eight exhausting days (loading and unloading our own gear and sleeping on hard floors) I returned home weary, happy to see my wife and ready for my own bed. Not even 6 hours later, I recieved a phone call from a co-worker saying he just heard on the radio that my neighborhood was part of a very large "mandatory evacuation". (There's been a large wildfire near the town we live in and some late afternoon gusts came along and started a very dangerous and rapidly moving "spot fire" down the canyon opposit the one we live in). So, without a chance to unpack or have a decent nights sleep, my wife and I start prioritizing what we own. First were our two cats, my computer hardrives and whatever documents and irreplacable items we owned and packed them up into my truck. It was too surreal. We spent the next few nights camping out in a friend's yard south of here and clear of the smoke. We just learned this morning that our status has gone down to "voluntary evacuation" (good news) so here we are back home, but not quite ready to unpack all of our stuff yet (especially all our Disney memorabilia! :goodvibes ) Any good vibes or well wishes you can send to our community would be greatly appreciated. I know there are some powerfully helpfull people here on these boards and I'm hoping I can tap into some of your great energies. Hope to see you all again in VMK soon and we can get back to life as normal (in VMK and in the real world) Miss you folks! :grouphug:
 
Hi!

Sending big hugs and lots of pixie Dustpixiedust: pixiedust: pixiedust: pixiedust: pixiedust: your way. Hopefully life will get back to normal real quick :)

Bug
 
Glad you are safe. Most 'stuff' is replaceable, people are not.:goodvibes
that is a tough decision as to what goes and what stays.
 
Congratulations on the album!:cool1: :rockband: :music:

Sorry about the evacuation. Hope that is all it will be. It Sure does show you what is really important to your life.:grouphug:
Good luck with everything!pixiedust:
 

Ah so that's where you have been!! Glad you are safe (well sort of) and well!! As a Hurricane Rita survivor (barely) I know what you are going through. Be safe and congratulations on the album!! Oh and by the way I have been collecting the weekend pins for you since I hadn't seen you on line. Hope to see you again real soon!

SneekyTiki
 
Sending good wishes your way and praying for safety for you and your family! Take care.
 
Add me to the well wishers! Glad you're safe. :goodvibes
 
Sending you only happy thoughts of a rosy future! Best wishes on your album, too!
 
Glad to hear you're okay! Even though I don't know you (I'm fairly new on DIS), everyone here is like my DIS family! Also, congratulations on your album! That's awesome! :woohoo:
 
Thank you all so much for the well wishes and hugs! :goodvibes I get that warm fuzzy feeling inside from you all, and that's kinda what we need right now. Doesn't look like the next week will be too good here. Town Hall meeting tonight announced the cancellation of all the Memorial Day weekend festivities. Schools are closed for the week. They're expecting another weather system to arrive on Friday and cause all kinds of havoc. Guess this fire is national news now, so some of you might of heard of it already. This might be our signal that it's time to move a little earlier than we expected. Anyone have an apartment to rent near DisneyWorld? :lmao:

Big warm bear hugs for all the DIS family. I "GLOVE" you all!! :grouphug:
 
Glad to hear you are a-OK!! Sending your good, wet, fire-extinguishing vibes ...

Congrats on your album!
 
Oh i have lots of family in B.C. (canada) just say the word and i will find you a nice place to stay!! I have family in Cranbrook, Kelowna and Surrey/Langley. Be safe my friend... Oh i so want your CD. My brother is the personal trainer for the band Nickelback!! Would love to send him a CD to play at his gym!! Or you could come to Texas and stay here ok so we have hurricanes, humidity and mosquitoes oh my!!
 
Sending you best wishes! I was watching that fire on CNN this morning, looks like a bad weekend ahead. Stay safe, we're thinking of you. And congratulations on the album! :grouphug:
 
Cool! your in a band? Congrats. Anyway,, i wish you luck with your family and to be safe. Hopefully nobody got hurt though in that fire.

See You in VMK!.. . Or something..
 
Welcome back, congrats on the CD and lots of well wishes and pixie dust your way!!!!
 
Oh i have lots of family in B.C. (canada) just say the word and i will find you a nice place to stay!! I have family in Cranbrook, Kelowna and Surrey/Langley. Be safe my friend... Oh i so want your CD. My brother is the personal trainer for the band Nickelback!! Would love to send him a CD to play at his gym!! Or you could come to Texas and stay here ok so we have hurricanes, humidity and mosquitoes oh my!!

WOW! You're too kind Tiki. Hurricanes, humidity and mosquitoes, eh? Sounds like Florida to me! :lmao: Thank you so much for the offer to help. We've had several offers for help locally from friends and word of mouth (one was in an 8 bedroom mansion with a steam shower, oh my). But, so far it seems they're getting the upper hand on the fire, and hopefully we'll have some secure fire lines established before the weather that's expected on Friday reaches us. There are some disturbing fire maps online that show the rapid growth of the fire just opposite of where we live. I can see why they evacuated us now. It's scary to see how much danger we really were in. Got to go to town now and check in with the National Guard stations at the end of our street, lol. Too much. Was awesome to finally wake up in my own bed and read all the kind words of support here. Infinite thanks and well wishes to all who read this thread!

Oh, and thanks for all the encouragement on the music everyone! Wasn't expecting that. But, I don't want this thread to seem like a plug for my band. I don't think our music is appropriate for younger people, and especially not on a VMK game board :guilty: Although it seems many of us are a tad older than who you'd expect to be playing this game (cough). I could PM a few links if you're truly interested though.

A MILLION THANKS! KEEP THE GOOD THOUGHTS COMING! KEEP THE FIREFIGHTERS SAFE!
 
Yes saw the fires on Fox news. Quite scary. According to the report the fire is 60 square miles, that's huge!! I sure hope they are monitoring that thing VERY closely!! Be safe and keep us posted!! Sending a great big virtual hug to you, your wife, family and friends!!

OH and could you PM me a link so I can check out your band?? No need to worry, I am plenty old enough to have a listen!!
 
Oh i have lots of family in B.C. (canada) just say the word and i will find you a nice place to stay!! I have family in Cranbrook, Kelowna and Surrey/Langley. Be safe my friend... Oh i so want your CD. My brother is the personal trainer for the band Nickelback!! Would love to send him a CD to play at his gym!! Or you could come to Texas and stay here ok so we have hurricanes, humidity and mosquitoes oh my!!

hes a trainer for nickelback wow.:rotfl2:
 














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