Miserable day in the neighborhood

[rabidbadger]

So my refurbished nano came yesterday, and I spent the whole evening putzing with it, sucking down beers and commenting here on the forum on the laptop while cranking tunes with the earbuds in until around midnight on my front porch.

Around 11:30 a fire truck goes by, sirens, all for about ten whole seconds. Big whoop right? I have a tiny house in the city outskirts. This happens every couple hours in a decent size city.

Course, I wake up to my radio alarm clock blurting the news that three kids were killed in a fire at the other end of my block. It really sucks. I didn't know them, I've only been here a little while, but I was thrilled that a month after I bought the place that the boarded up shell of a house was being rebuilt by habitat for humanity. It was given to a mother who worked all sorts of extra time with the volunteers, and was a total sweetheart who was back in school to improve her life. She lost a daughter and two nieces. Five other kids survived. The big beautiful house is now a shell again.

Don't know why I posted this here. Just bummed out, I guess. Didn't mention it at work or talk to friends about it. Feeling a little guilty that I was having a lovely bit of "me time" while kids were dying a block away...

Ugh.

[njshadow]

Man, sorry to hear that. I'll be praying for that block/family.:)

[ariastar]

So my refurbished nano came yesterday, and I spent the whole evening putzing with it, sucking down beers and commenting here on the forum on the laptop while cranking tunes with the earbuds in until around midnight on my front porch.

Around 11:30 a fire truck goes by, sirens, all for about ten whole seconds. Big whoop right? I have a tiny house in the city outskirts. This happens every couple hours in a decent size city.

Course, I wake up to my radio alarm clock blurting the news that three kids were killed in a fire at the other end of my block. It really sucks. I didn't know them, I've only been here a little while, but I was thrilled that a month after I bought the place that the boarded up shell of a house was being rebuilt by habitat for humanity. It was given to a mother who worked all sorts of extra time with the volunteers, and was a total sweetheart who was back in school to improve her life. She lost a daughter and two nieces. Five other kids survived. The big beautiful house is now a shell again.

Don't know why I posted this here. Just bummed out, I guess. Didn't mention it at work or talk to friends about it. Feeling a little guilty that I was having a lovely bit of "me time" while kids were dying a block away...

Ugh.

Sweetie, you're feeling empathy. All over the world, while we enjoy ourselves, others are suffering. There is no way we can stop it by being miserable. If you would like to do something, you could take up a collection to help with funeral expenses, or spend time mentoring children without parents.

This could be a blow to H4H that three children died in a house fire so soon after it was finished.