Meghan had her wisdom teeth taken out today. She is really one of those people who react to medication really weirdly, so we had her grandmother come over to the house and watch her.
You know how even when we plan things that they sometimes do not work out well? Yeah, it is one of those things that happened today. Meghan was laying down on the couch totally whacked out from the medication that had been given to her. Her grandmother laid down on the couch beside her and fell asleep.
Meghan woke and thinking (in her odd state) that she was going to help us with getting things ready for the cold snap decided that she would clean out our pot-belly stove of the ash and coals. She put them in the bucket, then took them outside. She poured them by the rail road tie that was by her room. It was really windy and it the coals (that weren't totally dead) caught the railroad tie on fire. Since the end of the tie was against the house, it went toward the house and caught the side of the house on fire.
Meghan and her grandmother smelled the smoke and raced outside callng 911 and Meghan even in her medicine state grabbed the water hose and began dousing the house with it. By the time that the fire fighters come, Meghan almost had it already out. The men had to cut a 5 foot by 6 foot part of the siding off the house to make sure that the insulation was not on fire and not burning up into the attic.
Damage to Meghan's room was: a small football size hole where one of the elecrical outlets burned, a small part of her carpet was burned. Her wall has a flashburn on it from the electrical outlet going, and there is smoke damage somewhat throughout the house.
No one was hurt. I'm very thankful about that. I'm proud of Meghan even though she did something when she shouldn't have done that. I'm also glad that it didn't damage the house more. Of course, we have insurance to take care of it.
Matt and his father put up plywood up over the spot where the siding was taken down. That of course is a temporary fix, but the chemical smell from the insulation burning and the electrical wires getting burned -it doesn't help things when we go home in the evening. It really is bad because I'm allergic to smoke, period. I have a headache now from the smell alone.
~MJ
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