FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007/01/06 14:34 Last night was one of the most.....insanly scary nights of my life... I wake up to a few inches of snow, which turns into slush as it rains.... I need to get out of the house.. so i brave the storm.... I go out for the day.....come home at about 8:00PM....get naked (all except my see though black french knickers I got for christmass I run a bath... there is a knock at my door "who is it?" i ask... tossing on a bath robe (winnie the pooh bath robe) and anwer the door to see "Stanly Tweedle" whome jonn and I so affectonly nick named.. with a christmas card and a box of chocolate (i cant eat it i'm vegan) as hes talking to me the fire alarm goes off.... we wait a moment... "this cant be real..." it is... the fire alarm is ringing loudly... Stanly takes off.. I grab my cat crate... and shove my cats in this Boxx... so I run out naked save for a thin cloth and french knickers.... I leave everything else behind... Me and my cats... Me in bare feet..... I run one way...."no.. thats not the fire exit....." I run the other way down the hall... helping old people to follow my voice... they come as we walk down the stairs... CRACK! a sound i never wanted to hear again... and the lights were off.... we smell smoke... in the dark I fumble to find the door... Were frozen to afraid to go back... far to afraid to walk in the dark.... Cats safely in hand.... I find the door knob, I open the door, as i do the emergency lights come back on.. "Out this way... I say to the elders... "No... I'm going out this way." he says... walking to the loby.. deeper into the building... I shake my head "No.. out this way." he defies me... a younger man says to me.. you can come this way... I folllow him into the bulding.. I feel heat.... I smell smoke... I freak out and say "na... i'm going out this way... * so out into the snow I go... snow so slushy and deep its to my ankles... my shoeless ankels....I get to the front of the building... my feet burn.. everyone's in the loby... "why are you sill in the building." the lights are off, the alarm is telling you to get out. the younger man who had knocked on EVERY apartment door...told me to wait outside.. I did... and there waited with me two sweet geeky boys who gave me a coat to wear.. he was only in a t -shirt... then we sat in his car to keep warm we talked trek.. all of us nervious at the thought of losing all our stuff.."I got my cats".... the other boy gave me a jacket for my legs...I almost cried at their sweetness.... 20 mins pass and the fire truck finally came. "I have no shoes" .......a knock at the car window... someone had gotten me shoes... and asside from the power being out.. it was safe to return to our homes...so I did. what had happened... was WATER from the snow had melted and hit a fire alarm.. SHORTING it out.....causing it to go off... all the other alarms followed... as the system shorted the lights also went... even the genorator.. which was far to slow to come on.....as for the smoke.. someone lit a bunch of candles... and had to blow them out as she left the apartment.. causing the halway to fill with smoke....the heat must have been in my mind... I spent the night at the geeky boys apartment.. talking of geeky things. it was nice. I want to bake them some cookies. well. I went home and slept in the dark... and awoke to the snow gone, the sunshine out, and the power back on. yay. what a night. let it NEVER happen again.....please. PPS my cats are ok.