PEM crashes

[Rufous McKinney]

September 8, 2020--the day our house burned down with literally everything in it

Oh @Wayne I'm so sorry. I likely know which one that is, due to my PhD in Wildfires.

We got nailed in 2017, broke the record for acreage, broke the record for Nobody bothered to even try to fight the fire.

had to do "battle" with the insurance company

no we rented and were unable to get insurance. So it's simply: over. FEMA check: $2700.

It all ends on this odd day, and your life is never the same after all that.

I was retiring in two weeks when every file and every record and every report I ever wrote was in the house. That was maybe worse than losing my personal stuff.

I feel I've been able to improve my physical resilience since the fire, but have lost neurological resilience.

well, congratulations for at least some improvement.

 

[Rufous McKinney]

Oh @Wayne I'm so sorry. I likely know which one that is, due to my PhD in Wildfires.

everywhere I lived, everywhere I grew up, everywhere I spent 1000 hours hiking in: its all burnt in the last say ten years. Somebody even burnt down the historic mansion in my home town.

And so I do not return, I do not go back.

 

[Rufous McKinney]

I'm still not fully recovered, and don't know that I ever will.

There is getting on with things, but I don't think recover exists in the way we think of it.

Valuables were put on the altar and sacrificed. Its mythic.

But I"m curious, I would describe the period after all that happened, for many weeks and maybe even months, as being MANIC.

Did you experience anything like that?

I hardly ever saw a single person I ever knew, after those fires. Hopefully you didn't experience that level of complete disruption. Now I've left the country.

 

[Viala]

That's what happened with me, rent had to be paid, groceries had to be bought, laundry had to be done, money to pay for all that had to earned since I wasn't born a billionaire.

23 years earlier, same happened with my Dad, well, he had Mom to buy the groceries and do the laundry, he had to work to provide the income for her to do that.

Same story here, these activities are too much for us. I went into a couple of remissions in the meantime, then relapsed each time because I had to work. 'What if'.