Other Our apartment burned

[Kamorth]

So update time. We are still in the hotel, now they're saying we have until Saturday but since every single landlord in town has decided our whole building is "high risk" no one has found anywhere to move to yet. We're at the two week mark and 1 family out of 43 has moved to Alberta to stay with family. The rest of us are all still in the hotel. At this point MPs and MLAs are being emailed, there is a class action suit being organized, and we're discussing a sit in if they try to put us on the street.

Personally, we have started a gofundme for our family. I don't know if I can share links like that here, I'll check the posting rules and put it up if I'm allowed. I woke up with an abcess and we just had to drop $140ish on a drop in clinic and antibiotics for me but I'm on a liquid diet for at least a few days. The doctor said it was probably a stress response. Why did it take so long to kick in? The day after the fire my stepson asked to go stay with his adopted parents and we thought the familiarity and stability would help him not be so traumatized. Within 12 hours he had bolted to stay with friends. That ended when they abandoned him unconscious outside a supermarket and he ended up in hospital being treated for alcohol poisoning. He's coming back to stay with us tomorrow because I don't trust anyone else with his safety right now.

I have heard from my aunt and parents. Parents say good luck and remember to not play the victim (because if actual victims of anything exist they're not in *our* family). My aunt talked to me for 10 hours straight and let me cry at her about it all. She helped a lot.

I'm starting to worry we will end up truly homeless. It terrifies me. All my old PTSD patterns and triggers are back and I hate how easily that happened.

I'm angry and scared and I feel cornered and all I want to do is shove my family here behind me and start punching anything that comes anywhere near them. I don't like it.

 

[Kamorth]

Another update, we're now good in the hotel until May 1st. This is a HUGE deal and people have finally started finding places. The people from the apartment right next to ours had a friend who surprised them with an RV and they've found a place to park it that comes available on May 1st. Our friend the air force vet who claimed he hadn't seen combat until he started telling us about the horrors he saw on relief missions in Haiti has been offered a place with friends that comes with a job, so he's finally starting to relax. We have a line on a place in a new subdivision in the next town over that's currently under construction but it won't be available until June. We CAN stay with my stepson's adopted parents until then but it'll be impossible to keep him happy there and he will undoubtedly run so we're still looking but we do have that option as an absolute last resort.

Things are starting to look up.

 

[ladee]

You can go to Contact on the black header. Admin or one of the mods will let you know if you can put a link up. I don't think you can, but please check with them.

Glad to hear things are starting to look up for you and your family. It is hard what you are experiencing. Hope you are finding time to take care of you. Gentle hugs.

 

[Kamorth]

We got some of our stuff back! The insurance company finally let the recovery team start pulling stuff out of the building for people after it was looted on Tuesday night while the THREE security guards on duty all slept in their cars. We lost all our salvageable electronics and a lot of other things that were in plastic tubs with lids and would have been salvageable got thrown into the flooding and mold from the fire hoses and then pissed and shit on by the looters. We were preparing to move as soon as we found a new place so we had started packing things like books and craft supplies. Fortunately they decided that Mark's room looked like it belonged to a kid and they didn't spend much time in there, which means he's been able to recover two boxes of pet ashes and 3 untouched tubs of books and plushies along with several thousand dollars worth of collectables. They also missed the tubs on the top of our wardrobe shelves so we got all my husband's dead parents' photo albums back too. Unfortunately my stepson is a child of few needs, all of them electronic, and they took everything from him.

I spent most of yesterday in shock about what they did to my living room and craft supplies. That's how I make my living, I sell hand made jewellery and accessories at markets and online. All the fabric I had bought to make masks to donate had been used as toilet paper. Now I'm just angry about it. Were our games consoles and games and computers not good enough for them? I'm sorry, I wish I could have better met your needs thieves-who-steal-from-fire-victims-in-low-income-buildings.

We found out they had looted the place because they showed up at the hotel and started trying to sell people tablets with photos of the victims still on them. One of the looters took selfies with a couple of the devices so those have been given to the police but they're saying that they can't do much because of covid.

Trying to keep looking at the bright side. We got a lot of irreplaceable things back and I've dealt with feeling this violated before. We'll heal. Eventually.

Not sure if the looters will if the angry posse being hinted at in the hotel rumour mill gets to them before the cops do though.

 

[Kamorth]

Oh also I woke up with a really bad stress ulcer the day after we found out about the looting and my lip was so swollen that I looked like a chimp. I'm on broad spectrum antibiotics so I'm also having to deal with some horrendous side effects right now. It's way down this morning though so they're working and I'm already halfway through the course so it won't be an issue for much longer.