HockeyDad wrote:We could use a hurricane’s worth of rain up here. Maybe we can get some in October.
e flew from Jakarta to Tahoe to empty a ank safety box, but the bank closed down
Today is the day to see how much of South Lake Tahoe get swallowed by the forest fire.
My cousin, who lives in Jakarta, owns a mostly wood vacation mansion and several other properties in South Lake Tahoe. While emergently in the air from Jakarta to Tahoe to get the contents of a safety deposit box, which includes his real property insurance policies and other valuable stuff, his bank branch evacuated and he couldn't get to his safety box.
Another branch of his bank told him nothing is is going to happen to his security box because it was built to withstand this type of fire and that there is like five feet of concrete surrounding it. Apparently, northing in the vault was affected when his branch burned down in a raging fire about 10 years ago.
He doesn't care what happens to the properties he owns- because they are both fully insured and presently valued at the top of the market. (win-win?)
But worst of all, first responders were not allowed him to get to his house safe and then kept the rabbi at his synagogue from going back in to take the torahs out. So, my cousin took a back road around the road blocks and is at the police station- pleading his case for just enough time to get the torahs out.
And, he was planning to permanently return with his family in October, but there is probably no chance of that anymore.