BoatingCop
Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Aug 28, 2007
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As some of you may know, here in Bastrop County we had the biggest wildfire in Texas history. On 9/4/11, I was called into work (Deputy Sheriiff) early to help the day shift out with a brush fire. By the time I had got to the fire, approx 30 miles from my house, the fire was already knocking on my back door. Had no time to get anything from the house except what I left with which was my uniform and patrol car. I couldn't go back home to try to save anything due to us having to evacuate as many people as we could. After a 16 hour night, my wife (then fiance), daughter, and I went to a friend's house to stay for the night. When I got up at noon, we snuck back to our house and found this.
That was the Cummins 12 valve hooked to my 21 foot Sea Ray ski boat. You can see the front of my 14 ft aluminum boat with the 9.9. Johnson. The front is all thats left. I also had a '73 Johnson 40 hp that I was working on in the shed which also burned. I've never been without a boat before so I'm trying to find just any cheap aluminum boatt and motor lol. Amazingly this was sitting less than 20 feet from the house, and our house did not burn. The fire literally singed the bottom of our house, but it did not catch fire. We had all our days off taken away and worked 12 hours everyday for the next month constantly being yelled at by citizens. It was hell. I've NEVER seen anything like it. The fire burned more then 30,000 acres. All the houses around ours, including neighbors houses are gone. We got lucky. I just lost 2 boats, the truck, and my tool shed. The bad part was we didn't have renters insurance but I had full coverage on the truck. I had more pictures on my other phone but I ran over it thr other day lol. I'll have more that I'll get off my wife's phone to post up.
Oh yeah, this all happened on the 4th...our wedding day was on the 10th. They actually let me off for the wedding AND the honeymoon!! I told them that I WAS getting married no mattter what! The weding went perfectly too!
That was the Cummins 12 valve hooked to my 21 foot Sea Ray ski boat. You can see the front of my 14 ft aluminum boat with the 9.9. Johnson. The front is all thats left. I also had a '73 Johnson 40 hp that I was working on in the shed which also burned. I've never been without a boat before so I'm trying to find just any cheap aluminum boatt and motor lol. Amazingly this was sitting less than 20 feet from the house, and our house did not burn. The fire literally singed the bottom of our house, but it did not catch fire. We had all our days off taken away and worked 12 hours everyday for the next month constantly being yelled at by citizens. It was hell. I've NEVER seen anything like it. The fire burned more then 30,000 acres. All the houses around ours, including neighbors houses are gone. We got lucky. I just lost 2 boats, the truck, and my tool shed. The bad part was we didn't have renters insurance but I had full coverage on the truck. I had more pictures on my other phone but I ran over it thr other day lol. I'll have more that I'll get off my wife's phone to post up.
Oh yeah, this all happened on the 4th...our wedding day was on the 10th. They actually let me off for the wedding AND the honeymoon!! I told them that I WAS getting married no mattter what! The weding went perfectly too!
