1. Moved into Sterling Village Apartments when we got married- Nov. 2005
2. Moved to Provo Wyview Married Student Housing- Nov. 2006
3. Moved to The Springs of Country Woods Apartments- May 2007
4. Moved to Courtney and Tyler's basement- April 2009
5. Moved to Monarch Meadows Apartments- June 2009
6. Moved into our current HOUSE! September 2010
Just so you know... that is 6 different places we have lived and our 5 year anniversary is coming up this November!
Do you remember how we moved out of our last apartments just in time to miss the fatal shooting there? Just in Time! May 5, 2009 Well, we did it again! We moved almost all of our belongings to our new house on Saturday, September 18th. Then on Sunday the 19th we saw smoke creeping up behind the mountain near our apartment...
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| Picture courtesy of KSL (Scott G Winterton, Deseret News) |
I said to Matt, "I bet it's getting pretty smokey at our apartment..."
Later that evening I went over to the apartment to do some laundry (No washer and dryer at the new house at the time). I was driving there just as the sun was setting, but the closer I got to the fire the darker the skies got. All of a sudden it was pitch black and you would have thought it were 2:00 in the morning because the skies were so dark, even though down the street the skies were still blue. That's when I spotted the flames coming up over the back side of the mountain. Our apartment was very smokey. I was there for about an hour, and when I was leaving I took this picture.
It was so smokey and dark that it was really hard to get a decent picture with my crappy little camera, but this shows the view from our apartment.
Matt and Sydney were at my family's house, so I left the apartment to go pick them up. When I got to Matt he said that they were evacuating near our apartments and that evacuation was voluntary at our place. We decided that we wanted to go and get our pictures and computer out of our apartment, because we had no way of knowing if the mandatory evacuation would come to our apartment since we were not sleeping there. ***Things left at our apartment: piano, tv, computer, wedding dress, Sydney's blessing dress, and all pictures. Basically anything of real monetary and sentimental value.***
So we headed back to our apartment, but when we got to 13400 South, the road was closed to all westbound traffic. For those of you who are not familiar with Herriman, 13400 South is basically the ONLY road going in and out of Herriman. The traffic coming out of the town was insane. We sat in a huge line of traffic, wondering what to do, looking at this but closer:
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| Photo courtesy of KSL |
We decided to look up google maps on our phone and see if there were any smaller roads that led to our apartment. Matt found a route that he thought could get us there safely. So we twisted around a bunch of little roads and finally made it there. Matt and I ran in and brought out our box of pictures and our computer. Then we headed back into the traffic to our new house, just grateful that we didn't have to sleep in a smoke infested apartment all night.
We had no tv and no internet at the house, so basically we had no idea what was going on with the fire. Even though we knew that it would be pretty rare for the fire to reach our apartment, it was affecting our community, our stake, and our ward. It definitely hit "too close to home." The next day, I had a sore throat and allergies from breathing smoke while at the apartment and driving the night before. I still smelled like smoke, and our car smelled like smoke for probably 2 days. It was one of the craziest things I have ever seen in my life. KSL has all the news stories covering the fire here.
Status report as of 4 p.m. Wednesday when all residents were let back into their homes:
- 4,351 acres burned
- 3 homes destroyed
- 50 percent contained
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| Photo courtesy of KSL (Kelly Dumont) |
2 comments:
Holy Cow! That is insane! I didn't know there was a fire up there. Glad you guys are safe!
Craziness! So glad you didn't have to deal with that and left just in time to a new home!
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