richie
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25 Jul 2008, 2:11 pm
sinsboldly
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25 Jul 2008, 2:32 pm
25 Jul 2008, 5:47 pm
Best I can offer is a lawn chair. No kittens either. Sorry
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25 Jul 2008, 11:00 pm
well, it looks like I dreamed of the house falling down when it really DID fall down!
09:13 AM PDT on Friday, July 25, 2008
By ERICA HEARTQUIST & TERESA BLACKMAN / KGW.com Staff
SALEM, Ore. -- A two-story house collapsed in Salem late Thursday night and the family inside had to be rescued, authorities said.
Firefighters had to cut out one of the windows for an escape path so they could pull the trio out of their collapsed home.Neighbors said it felt and sounded like an earthquake when the home went down.
It appeared that the house slid off its temporary foundation.
It happened just after 10 p.m. at the corner of NE 5th and NE Jefferson. The homeowner told KGW that he was in the process of getting the foundation replaced during a contruction project that had been going on for several weeks.
“The house had been leaning,” said homeowner Doug Ebanks “So I called the contractor several times to ask if it was okay that we were still in there. They said ‘Oh yeah, you’re fine.'"
Ebanks, his wife and their seven-year-old son, Keaton were inside the home when it came crashing down.
“Something gave way, causing the house to tip off the temporary shoring,” Deputy Fire Chief Joe Parrott explained. “Damage to the home was extensive.”
Eileen and Keaton were transported to Salem Hospital for treatment after the rescue with injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening.
Neighbor Sheila Schafer told KGW she saw the whole thing happen. “I heard a noise which was like a crashing sound and I saw it out of the corner of my eye. The house just collapsed. It scared me to death,” she said.
“It felt like an earthquake. It was the most scary thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” said Schafer
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25 Jul 2008, 11:39 pm
26 Jul 2008, 1:07 am
aw, bummer for those folks and what used to be their house! 
26 Jul 2008, 5:50 am
hourah for the aspiequeen 
sinsboldly
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26 Jul 2008, 11:08 am
oh, yes, Nan!! you have hit exactly the right note. The horror around the neighborhood and sadness, the wife is still in the hospital, she injured her back really badly and is not expected to walk again. There is already a lawsuit against the excavators who were cited back in 2003, 2005 and well. . .again. It screams and creaks at odd times as it settles.
sorry to have cluttered up the ExCafe with my local news, but it is right across the street!
Merle
26 Jul 2008, 12:42 pm
26 Jul 2008, 10:19 pm
merley, but local news is our lives!! !! that poor woman, her home destroyed, her heath ruined. i hope they can at least get enough of a monetary settlement to keep her comfortable and pay for her ongoing medical and personal care.
speaking of local news: i am trying to scan all my documents, made sure the will (etc.) was up to date and that all the legal stuff was where the kid could find it if ever needed. sent off to renew my passport today. thought about it a bit, was going through my genealogy lately and found my foreign birth registry entry for ireland, so i sent off for and just finished filling out my application for an irish passport. it seems, somehow, like the prudent thing to do. why in the world do passport photos always come out looking so awful!?!? they're worse than driver's license photos, and i thought those were bad. 
anyway, the kid's knickers are in a twist because i didn't file for registry until the late 1990s. i also didn't really know it was an option until just after she was born. (actually, i had considered it earlier than the late '90s, but had neither the money nor the paper-trail available to prove it.)
anyway, my grandparents were born in ireland. they met and married in new york. granny had my mom, then grandpa got his citizenship a few years later. grandma never asked for it, but it was given to her and my mom automatically under the laws of the time. now, since my grandmother was, technically, an irish citizen until she died in old age, and as my mother was born while they both (grandparents) were still not citizens of the USA, that, under irish law, makes her irish. which makes me irish. so i've claimed it.
but because i didn't file the paperwork before the kid was born, she can't claim irish citizenship even though ireland recognizes me. i think her only option for citizenship there is to go there and live for 5 years. which might be doable, considering i may end up there anyway. 
but in the meantime it's all "that's not fair, mom!! !!" which is true, in a way. if i were to have a kid now, it'd automatically have irish citizenship. but she doesn't and can't.
no wildfires there, no "too hot" there. hmmmm..... 
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27 Jul 2008, 2:00 am
Lurking reading and writing 
sinsboldly
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27 Jul 2008, 2:04 am
psssst. . go to bed!
Merle
27 Jul 2008, 11:35 am
oh my. well, to make it a clean sweep, the other place we stayed on vacation, midpines/yosemite, is now on fire. i'm glad we took photos, that valley was staggeringly beautiful.
sigh.
scan faster, nan.
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sinsboldly
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27 Jul 2008, 11:55 am
sigh.
scan faster, nan.
I was thinking about you and Yosemite this morning when I saw the news about the raging fire. 2,000 homes that don't grow back, too.
Merle
richie
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27 Jul 2008, 11:58 am
Lurking and stimming....
27 Jul 2008, 12:57 pm
about the steroids, richie.... 
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