Originally Posted by Kaefer

Not to hijack your thread, but I've you beat. 12:30 AM Sunday night (Monday morning), and I'm on page 3 of a 12-pager. We get a call from one of our former neighbors (we just moved out a few weeks ago), telling us that our other house is ON FIRE!!! Lighting struck the house, and it started a fire on the attic. The attic and the roof caught on fire. When I got there, the flames were shooting up from my roof. Not a fun thing to see. The fire department put out the fire within one hour, but then they started poking around and basically tearing out the rest of my attic to ensure there were not hot spots.

Got back to my current house at 4:00 AM, and finished my paper at 8:00 AM. Took a shower, shaved, went to work. We were called again at about 10 AM. Apparently, even after all the poking not all the fire was out, and burning debris was falling down. Again, the fire was put out. After work, I went to school, turned in my paper and, of course, attended class. Sleep: ZERO hours. Got home, helped with dinner, ate dinner, checked email (and X5World, of course), and I went to bed at 10.

By the way, no one was hurt. The house can be fixed/replaced. The roof, attic and carpets will have to be replaced, but like I said, the house was empty. We were in the process of cleaning it, painting, and replacing the carpet before we put in the market. More of an annoyance than anything else.

Juan