Nobody ever thinks that "it" will ever happen to them. Whatever that "it" may be...in this case, it was a HUGE house fire. As you all know from my last blog, we spent last week in Edisto with the Mote family. We came home last Friday and they were planning to stay until this coming Saturday...that is until lightning struck the rental house they were staying in and it went up in flames. This happened sometime around 7:00 last night and they all got out safely. You always think of the things that you would try to grab if your house caught on fire and from what I hear those important things for the Mote/Bell family were: Emory Anne, a paci and her blanket.
Billy had gone home for the night, so the only ones in the house were Virginia, David (Virginia's brother), Gene, Haley and Emory Anne. They got out of the house, stood in the pouring down rain and watched the house go up in flames. The obviously called the fire department who quickly came, the realty company found another house for them to stay in for the night and there were some kind neighbors who let Haley wear a pair of flip-flops so she wasn't barefoot!
The Piggly Wiggly stayed open late for them to get a few essentials and they fed them free breakfast this morning when they showed up. This was probably the excitement of the year down in Edisto. Not to make light of the situation, but this could only happen to the Mote family!
They met the fire department back at the house this morning to go through and take what they could from the house. They loaded up their trailer with bag fulls of burnt, black, smokey clothes to see what they can salvage. I will update you with pictures once I get some from Haley. For anybody who may know the owners of this house, it is Joy and Bill Snyder's newly built (last year) beach house on the marsh in Edisto. They came down this morning to assess damage and see if they could get anything.
Luckily everyone is okay and we all need to realize that the "it" could happen to them.
WELCOME HOME MOTE/BELL FAMILY!!!!!!! Glad you're safe :)
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
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Wow. We are glad you all are safe!!! We know the importance of the paci...we would have grabbed it too. I hope not all was lost.
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