Re: Fireproof your house!!

"Tim Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > yet. The service will be small and quiet.
> > >
> > > Jørn.
> >
> > My condolences on your loss.
> >
> > As for hearing about it on the radio...that moment of realization of
> > who it was is weird. I heard similarly of the death of some close family
> > friends in a horrible crash, put 2 and 2 together and had to call my
dad.
> >
> >
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>
> ................Hi guys........I haven't been in the right frame of mind
to
> talk about this for the past few days. But re-reading about Joern's
tragedy
> and now Bill's post has given me the impetus to say something here about
my
> personal tragedy of a few days ago (Saturday). I was at a college football
> game Saturday night in Pittsburgh, Pa. when my sister in law called me on
my
> cellphone to tell me that my dad had died in a horrible automobile
accident
> in central Florida. Apparently, a 22 year old woman driving a minivan was
> unable to stay in her lane for some unknown reason, crossed the center
line
> of a two lane road (rte. 415 in Volusia County) and hit my dad's Corvair
van
> head on. Both vans were going at least 50 mph and the impact killed my 74
> year old dad, probably instantly. At least that's what I'm hoping because
> his body was partially incinerated by the subsequent fire from the
ruptured
> gas tank. I'm not too familiar with Corvair Greenbriar vans but I'm
guessing
> that the gas tank is in the front just like in my two vanagons. He was
> always going to vintage car or airplane shows in his free time and he was
on
> his way home to Sanford from a car show at Daytona Speedway Saturday
> afternoon when fate struck him down. I wasn't prepared for this, he's
never
> been seriously sick in his entire life and he's always been one of the
> safest drivers (and pilots) that I've ever known. At his age, I've been
more
> worried about him still flying his friend's Waco biplane more than
anything
> else but I guess that you never know what's coming next next until it
> happens. Right now, I'm trying to come to terms with the situation where
> I've been letting my 20 year old son drive one of my vanagons to his
> college. It's a similar style van with the gas tank underneath the
> front........I don't know how to explain how afraid I am of this danger
> considering what has just happened. My youngest son wants to drive my bug
> when he gets his learner's permit next summer.......he loves bugs. The
woman
> who killed my dad was in a modern minivan with an airbag and she's still
> alive in a hospital in Orlando. This death is still hard for me to
> comprehend. Anyway, I'm flying to Orlando tomorrow for the funeral in
> Sanford and I won't be back here in NY until Saturday. I hope that I can
> hold up as well as my dad would've wanted but I've never been in a
situation
> like this, until Saturday, I still had two parents. I'm sorry to have gone
> on so much about this, but talking to you guys, like this, is making me
feel
> a little better. Take care.
>
>
> Tim Rogers
>
>

My sympathy Timothy!

Don't know much else to say, life takes the strangest turns at times...
My grandparents will be burried(the service is at)  this Friday, only found
out this evening, not looking forewards to that.
I don't even enjoy churches, even less so priests, being non religious
myself...


Hope you get through the day(funeral), in a way you feel comfortable with.

Take care.
Jørn.