It was another long night here at the moby park… more fires.

Gypsy woke me up last night, in the wee early morning hours. She was nudging my hand, laying over the edge of my bed. I was tuckered out from the night before… my Dad is battling cancer and I was thinking about him and how he’s into his last couple chemos and is very discouraged and down… and it had kept me up the night before. I just thought the dog wanted to go out or something… which she RARELY does in the middle of the night, but then she started to whine… and not just the whimpery bit of a whine from a discontented pooch, but that Belgian sheepdog loud almost German shepardy whinning that you can’t dismiss. As I raised up to see what was wrong, the sounds of heavy truck equipment and radios and men reached me and the room was flooded with the sweep of fire engine lights.

Another night of arson.

I got up to peer out into the quite suddenly bright night and could see the moby burning… and close to my friend’s cousin’s moby! She’s this lovely little old lady and that just frightened me. At first I thought it was her place, but it wasn’t. There was truck after truck and noise and drama… it was hard to get back to sleep. I knew there wasn’t anything I could do… my kids were gone, at their Dads for a few days. It was just me and the dog.

In the afternoon, I was helping out Tim and all the sudden he says, “Gypsy just ran off” and so I was out the door after her. She’s pretty good about staying close to the Moby… but she was on a mission. And she ran right over to the burned out moby… I think she wanted to get a good look at it all, I’m sure the smells were still very strong and they do use Belgians for drug and arson sniffing dogs… she had to roam all over the area before I caught up with her.

I was walking her back and encountered one of my neighbors, a kind young woman with two little ones and a couple older children, out walking and quietly looking at the shell. We started to talk and she was very upset. Said that the residents were already talking about a neighborhood watch and that the park was bringing in some 24 hours security… of course she had ideas it was probably kids, but mentioned the same rumor that many say…. that it was the management.

I just can’t believe that. When they burn, they never burn completely, and then they still have to have someone come out and take it all away… it causes unrest in the park, they loose a potential rehab and lot rent client and to top it all off… they stand to loose SO MUCH if they got caught. It doesn’t make sense to me. They don’t get anything related to insurance, I’m quite certain… the city rates these empty rehab homes at less than $1000 each. So, there really isn’t ANY incentive for the management to do this. Just the extra work calming the residents and cleaning up after this and dealing with the angry city officials that threaten to close the park has to be a nightmare… why would they willingly risk and bring such a thing down on them?

No… it’s has to be the work of some pretty sick individuals…

Arson like this is a form of urban terrorism. It causes unrest. It makes people afraid at night. It makes you fear, will your home be next? How long before someone is hurt? As you can see, the nieghbor lady beside the arson moby, all her siding melted from the intense heat. Her shed was ruined, it’s all charred and surely will have to be replaced. Most likely anything in there was damaged. She has insurance, but her deductible is surely not something she wanted to have to come up with. And she could have easily seen her home up in flames if it had spread.

This has to stop.

My neighbor lady friend, she just had her carport all done up nice just a few months ago… now all the panels are warped and melty. It’s just not right.

Thank goodness the empty one to the north of my Moby has had signs of being bought. This very evening there were several cars there, and people in the home, looking around and there for quite a while. Can’t say for sure, but I know that it was in pretty good shape… and the park had spent some money redoing the roof and working inside and fixing some plumbing issues, and getting it ready for sale. It was a nice one, and I’m sure that someone will have a nice home for a decent price.

I just don’t want an empty one anywhere close to my beloved Moby….

I don’t want to have to change my blog to The Apartment Woman.