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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (167111)	9/30/2008 1:20:43 AM
From: Naomi	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Thanks you so much for your concern. We had a couple items we hated to lose that have not been found yet. We sailed with our annual Yacht Club's Race to Veracruz one year and had a crew of thirteen we had sailed with before and sailed in the Cruising Class and won an award which was a plague signed by the then President of Mexico and also a picture of the old draw bridge on the Seabrook Kemah channel we had to sound our horn to have the bridge raised when we would go out to the bay for a day or evening to sail. Sometimes we would stay out late and have to wake the bridge keeper up to open the bridge for us. We bought a photograph of the old bridge framed and ready to hang and with all the other pictures we had hanging, hung them in the bedroom. Our grandson has gone down there twice to look for them hoping to make his PawPaw happy about getting them back. He was able to climb over to get into that part of the house but said all the furniture was scattered all over the room and he could not find any of the paintings or pictures we had in there nor the items my husband hoped to find. He did find a lot of things near the kitchen which were filled with mud. He found all my Farberware, skillets and the big pot I used to make chowder in. Also found some dishes and the big round iced tea glasses that were not broken. They were the ones that had indentions on the sides like my grandparents had at their bay home in San Leon when I was growing up and were very old. Dusty thinks that the floor broke loose when it came apart from the drill stem pipe and raised it to the ceiling in the large room and everything was crushed. The roof did not have that much damage as it did in other years we had hurricanes. The house did not damage any power lines on our side or when it settled on the lot across the street. Neighbors were talking about that while we were down there. They think the house sunk after being removed from its attachment to the drill stem and when the water receded, it just settled down across the street. We met our new neighbors to the south of us and they had just moved in permanently July 4th and she had all her china and crystal still packed in boxes in the first story garages in a locker and they lost all that. My husband picked up a desert dish that was not broken in the yard as we walked up to meet them and she laughed and commented it was the cheapest set of crystal she had brought with them. We watched their house be built and the cross beams were all thick steel. They lost only the railings on their front steps at the water front and their garages, our neighbor on the north side said he had found them in his yard and would bring them over to them later. I'm told they were very decorative. I don't know when our house will be removed or what they will find or if they will even notify us when that happens. I really doubt that we will hear from the insurance company for a few weeks, maybe longer and don't know what to expect as this is the first time we have had that big a loss to claim. I think we have some photos of the inside of house, but will have to look through many albums to find them. We've had that property since 1969 and have replaced air conditioners, appliances and some furniture during those years as well as remodeling the kitchen and bath. I have an idea they will depreciate a lot of it, so will be interesting to see if they do or pay the full coverage and contents we had on it. Every year they allowed us to raise coverage for inflation we did. We have had some very expensive houses built around us and they have only increased the value of our property. The insurance and taxes really went up after Rita and Katrina hit the Gulf Coast so if we rebuild, we think any increase in those might prohibit us from doing so and might look for another house in another area not near our Coast for getaway weekends and a summer vacation spot for us and all the kids and grandchildren. Right now I am weary from the inconvenience of having no power and don't want to even think about it. I just don't have the get up and go I once had and I know why. <gg> Just leasing houses where we might like to visit sounds good to me without the worries of ownership. At some point in time I will check into that as another alternative when we see what our settlement is. I think I am ready to downsize and really reduce the responsibilities we have had all these years, and just enjoy a laid back existence of the golden years before they come to an end. That really sounds like a lazy, lazy life doesn't it? My husband thinks I would tire of it quickly but I'd just like to try it on to see.....