My husband and I are survivors of the Joplin tornado. Communication is so very important. We had T Mobile service that was worthless. We didn't know what was happening. We had no electricity. Another thing: Beware of home inspectors not doing their jobs. We bought a house. Things were so chaotic after the tornado, and the inspectors were overworked. Anyway, our house that we bought after the tornado burned down due to bad wiring. He showed up to inspect our house and didn't even have a ladder. 🙄
Also, if you want to see the article I wrote about the lessons of our housefire, visit TACDA.ORG, select the Journal of Civil Defense tab, select Search Journal Archives, and bring up Volume 47, 2014, Issue 3, article is "Surviving a House Fire."
Trust you read my take on the Joplin Tornado I wrote for the The American Civil Defense Association (tacda.org) Journal of Civil Defense in 2011. Here is a link to my Substack, but it is on our website as well.
My husband and I are survivors of the Joplin tornado. Communication is so very important. We had T Mobile service that was worthless. We didn't know what was happening. We had no electricity. Another thing: Beware of home inspectors not doing their jobs. We bought a house. Things were so chaotic after the tornado, and the inspectors were overworked. Anyway, our house that we bought after the tornado burned down due to bad wiring. He showed up to inspect our house and didn't even have a ladder. 🙄
Also, if you want to see the article I wrote about the lessons of our housefire, visit TACDA.ORG, select the Journal of Civil Defense tab, select Search Journal Archives, and bring up Volume 47, 2014, Issue 3, article is "Surviving a House Fire."
Trust you read my take on the Joplin Tornado I wrote for the The American Civil Defense Association (tacda.org) Journal of Civil Defense in 2011. Here is a link to my Substack, but it is on our website as well.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-138421455
Sadly, shysters, criminals, and scam artists descend like locusts after any disaster to make a quick buck and move on before they can be caught.
Sorry you had to experience that.
Our house burned down in 2004 due to a defective Black & Decker electric lawn mower igniting in the middle of the night.
Quite an experience.
I have faced serious fires multiple times and they are not fun.
https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2012/01/it-was-nothing.html
https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2021/10/12-lessons-from-tractor-hay-baler-fire.html
https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2022/09/disaster-lessons-from-malibu-fire.html
Get out! I have never heard of that. ☹️