You step away for 5 minutes...

[SUCCESSOR]

So, yesterday I leave the house to take Ashley to work and hang out for a bit because she was alone when 3 fire trucks go by. thinking nothing of it I keep on hanging out when my sister pulls in a few minutes later and tells me my apartmwent is on fire.

long story short thefiremen tore out half our ceiling, flooded our apartment, and we cannot get to our stuff until the insurance investigator looks over the place. we got some clothes nd basic stuff and the landlord company put us up in a motel for a couple nights. Hopefully tomorrow we will have a new unit.

[Gleeok]

Are you f*ing serious right now!? Wow. That's crazy. ...Hey, guess what? ..Happy new year! :P

That same thing happened to one of my friends about 8 years ago. Whole unit went up from top to bottom when nobody was there. They said it was the wiring.

[CJC]

I'm so sorry for your loss, and I hope the insurance covers everything.

[mrz84]

That's some serious stuff to happen at the start of the new year. Here's hoping things turn out ok. :kitty:

[erm2003]

That really suck man. I hope you can get back to normal as quickly as possible.

[bigjoe]

Hope things get better. Take comfort in the fact that no one got hurt.

[MasterSwordUltima]

I had a fire in my apartment last year, and my scum-bag landlord told me to clean up as much as I could before the claims adjuster got there or MY insurance would go up. So I cleaned up, but not before taking a shit ton of pictures and explaining why I cleaned up to the adjuster (who understood what my landlord was trying to do).

[CaRmAgE]

Well, I experienced a power outage this new year's day, but that's not as bad as dealing with your apartment being on fire. Hope you didn't lose anything important.

[Brasel]

That sucks man. I hope you are able to get everything taken care of easily.

[Chris Miller]

Whoa, that sucks dude.

I'm glad nobody got hurt at least.

[SUCCESSOR]

The apartment was finally released. We spent most the day pulling stuff from it and moving it to the new place. Thankfully our new unit is just upstairs. Still a whole lot to look through and a lot of stuff to check for damage. Our Xbox 360 definitely came in contact with water. I am afraid to test it. Half because I may cry if the damn thing is broken and half because I don't want to supply power to it if there is any chance it may still have moisture inside. No warranty BTW.

[CJC]

Well... hopefully the fire fighters cut the power before they sprayed the apartment. If that's the case, then the device wouldn't have had any power supply when exposed to water, so it MIGHT work if completely dried. I'm not sure how you'd verify it's dry, though.

Fingers crossed that the damage is minimal.

[TheDarkOne]

I had some water damage to a computer I owned some 20-odd years ago, and drying it was simply accomplished by unscrewing a removing the outer casing and using a blow dryer. Not sure if that would work with the Xbox since I have never owned one, but it's just a suggestion. It did still work once it was dry, by the way.

[Chris Miller]

As long as it wasn't powered when they hosed it, it should be fine. Just open it up and let it have lots of drying time in the sun.