Long day working + too much family time + a few, or 7, beers = Wickedfire thread!
Anyway this is a kind of serious one. You should listen up if you own a home.
Around 9 years ago my Dad got a video recorder for Christmas and I decided to take it all around the house videotaping my family that was over, my room, the pool room, everything. I thought it was the coolest thing going - keep in mind I was 11 or 12 at the time.
A few weeks later, January 21st, my house burnt completely to the ground. Nothing was saved, but everyone was okay. It was, of course, a total shock and having a rather big home when State Farm requested a list of items in the house everyone was left scratching their heads.
My Dad just a few days before the house burning taped a hockey game of mine and the video recorder, with the tape I made on Christmas walking through the house, was still on it (he left the recorder in his truck).
Because of this you could literally see almost everything, that wasn't tucked inside drawers in the house. It ended up getting at the time the biggest settlement in our area awarded.
...A few years ago a relatives house burnt down also to the ground, que the "That's not a trend" jokes, their house was beautiful and full of stuff - stuff they didn't know they even had. Their settlement shouldv'e been much higher but they had no idea what they had kept away.
Anyone who owns a home should, every six months or so, do a quick walk through with a video recorder of some kind. It'll take like ten minutes or so and in the end can result in hundreds of thousands of dollars saved.
I just bought one of those flip things so that's what I'm off to do now.
