Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Follow-up to prayer request

Thank you all for your prayers yesterday when we learned our former neighborhood was burning. Thankfully no lives were lost, but we're saddened that some of our dear friends, Dallas and Susie, lost their home and all their possessions. Miraculously their horses and cows escaped, singed and terrified, but at least alive. However their livestock's winter food supply also burned.

Older Daughter, who is closer to our old neighborhood than we are, drove in yesterday evening. She took the following photo of a plane dropping fire retardant.

We've created a GoFundMe page to help these folks recover and hopefully build some sort of shelter before winter, as well as obtain food for their livestock. If you're able to donate any amount, they would be very grateful. And so would we!

Update: Amazingly, our old homestead wasn't burned, though I understand the new owners spent the night putting out fires in the outlying gardens (yes, plural; they've installed a second garden).  The most amazing miracle was the fire roared right up to some newer neighbors, a delightful family with seven homeschooled children who live on the property next to us. The fire burned a tool shed and then stopped ten feet from their home before the wind shifted. If that's not a miracle, I don't know what is.

I'll post more info as I catch up with more neighbors. Bless you all for your prayers and your generosity. It's been an emotional few days for us all.

11 comments:

  1. I will be happy to donate especially after reading about them from your holiday posts. Did your old homestead make it?

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    1. From Don.
      Yep, our old place survived, but not untouched. The orchard was probably wiped out, and the bull pen fencing was wiped out but not the barn or even the bull pen sheds. The new owners also lost their rabbits and the second garden they placed in our "triangle pasture" But the new owner is now sold on the rock covered tarps we put down in the main garden for weeds.

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  2. Thank the Lord no lives were lost - that He even spared the livestock. It must be a terrible feeling, though, to be going into winter with no home and, even worse, no feed. I know I always heave a sigh of relief when we have a barn full of hay ready for cold weather. Praying now that your friends will soon be able to re-build.

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  3. Thanks for posting the photo. I remember them from your Christmas photos. Money sent.

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  4. I just went to the Go Fund me website and it would not process my donation. I will continue to try.

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    1. went to Bing and from there to Go Fund Me and had no problem donating

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  5. The Lord is Faithful...Answers prayer and is a God of Miracles...We just have to look around..
    Love from NC,
    Sandy

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  6. I do not use go fund me as I don't have a credit card. Is there an address we can send a check or money order to. I'd love to help out. Praying for your neighbors.

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  7. Was just watching the local news and they showed this fire as being started by train sparks. Total bummer. Hope they had decent insurance, your go fund me page should help out in the mean time. God will protect them, maybe they can get a new start elsewhere.

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  8. I will never understand why there at not fire lanes -breaks - out west. Growing up in the east, we had swaths clear cut every so many miles. We had many fires started by trains. Fires could more easily be contained when they came to a break. No they were not pretty but we never had the horrendous fires for hundreds of thousands of acres.

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