OVERHANG

Yah this is quite the adventure. You never know what's going to happen next. It was strange because I couldn't sleep right before the fire and I was thinking 'God whats going to happen, we need something drastic to happen, we're in pretty deep'. Then the fire happened. Oddly enough I was also thinking about how at home I felt in the coach house and i was thinking 'this feels right, this feels like the right place to be'. Then the fire.

Its going to take a bit to get everything going again. It was actually our neighbors that held the fundraiser for us. They gave us 900$ alltogether. We became close enough with them that we were all sad that we're leaving the neighborhood. Pullman folks are of course helping me out in every which way too. [Our immigration lawyer] is helping get the visa papers back already. We're taking pictures of everything tonight to see if we can get any insurance money from Carmen's insurance. I'm pretty skeptical but we listed the stuff we lost and it retails at least 30,000$. You just don't realize how much equipment you acquire over the years. I salvaged alot but I don't think much of it will work. We'll see. God's in control so I'll just do what I can.

Posted by Grant Elgersma at 10:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

If you've been following our story, you're not going to believe the latest dramatic event in our saga...Joel's house, where we've been doing our music, caught fire late Friday night. Since I am visiting my wife in Pennsylvania and not with him right now, here is an email he sent out to people to let them know what happened:

Our house caught on fire. It was pretty serious. Fortunately our neighbor was still up at around 1:30am and threw a beer bottle through our window to wake us. I was actually awake in my room but didn't smell anything until I hear the window shatter. We were out of there in seconds and about 40 firefighters showed up. I think they're still trying to put it out. They're pretty certain we lost everything. All I have are my shorts, wallet and one earplug. I couldn't remember any of your numbers and I didn't get my cell phone. Can you send me your phone #s?

The arson/fire inspectors are going through things tonight and we'll see if we can salvage stuff in the morning. We think the hot water heater set it off. I'll probablystay with some friends for a while but I'll have to see where things are at tommorrow. People are offering us money already and we're staying at our nieghbors. I can't believe this neighborhood. Wonderful people.

Gotta try sleep. I'll keep you posted.

Joel

As far as I know, Joel says that all our music equipment was probably destroyed, but he somehow has the recently backed-up cd's of what we've been working on for the last long while. His neighbors threw a fund-raiser for Joel and his roommates. He needs clothes and daily provisions etc. I don't know what anyone on *cino can do to help, but pray for us.

Posted by Grant Elgersma at 8:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)