Had one of these thanks, I will be tossing it.
Received from a friend who is in the insurance property
business.
It is well worth reading.
This is one of those stories you want to send out, rest
assured someone will suffer for not reading it.
The original message was written by a lady
whose brother and wife learned a hard lesson this past week.
Their house burnt down.. nothing left but ashes. They have good
insurance so the house will be replaced and most of the contents.
That is the good news. However, they were sick when they found out
the cause of the fire. The insurance investigator sifted through
the ashes for several hours. He had the cause of the fire traced to
the master bathroom. He asked her sister-in-law what she had
plugged in the bathroom. She listed the
normal things ..curling iron, blow dryer.
He kept saying to her, “No, this would be something that would
disintegrate at high temperatures”. Then her sister-in-law
remembered she had a Glade Plug-In, in the bathroom. The
investigator had one of those “Aha” moments. He said that was
the cause of the fire. He said he has seen more house fires started
with the plug-in type room fresheners than anything else. He said
the plastic
they are made from is THIN. He also said that in every case there
was nothing
left to prove that it even existed. When the investigator looked in
the wall plug,
the two prongs left from the plug-in were still in there.
Her sister-in-law had one of the plug-ins that had a small night
light built in it. She said she had noticed that the light
would dim
and then finally go out. She would walk in to the bathroom a few
hours later,
and the light would be back on again. The investigator said that
the unit
was getting too hot, and would dim and go out rather than just blow
the light bulb.
Once it cooled down it would come back on. That is a warning sign .
The investigator said he personally wouldn’t have any type of
plug in fragrance device anywhere in his house. He has seen too
many
places that have been burned down due to them.
Just recently my partner and I had this conversation.
“I really can’t believe how society are pushing the use of new compact light bulb. Sure they last longer than the regular light bulb , the ones we have used for years. The ones Edison discovered in the 1870’s.”
I responded with the question,” What do you mean?”
He shook his head and said “People don’t realize that these new bulbs have mercury in them and tell me, after that bulb is spent, what do you do with it???”" Not in the garbage, this is mercury we are talking about. A highly toxic material.”
Everyone is pushing out the incandescent light bulb, but at what cost? And speaking about cost. Here is a story of what the cost is if you happen to break one (like dropping it)
Consider this lady’s plight.
When the bulb she was installing in a ceiling fixture of her 7-year-old daughter’s bedroom crashed to the floor and broke into the shag carpet, she wasn’t sure what to do. Knowing about the danger of mercury, she called Home Depot, the retail outlet that sold her the bulbs.
According to the Ellison American, the store warned her not to vacuum the carpet and directed her to call the poison control hot line in Prospect, Maine. Poison control staffers suggested she call the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
The latter sent over a specialist to test the air in her house for mercury levels. While the rest of the house was clear, the area of the accident was contaminated above the level considered safe. The specialist warned Bridges not to clean up the bulb and mercury powder by herself – recommending a local environmental cleanup firm.
That company estimated the cleanup cost, conservatively, at $2,000. And, no, her homeowners insurance won’t cover the damage.
Since she could not afford the cleanup, Bridges has been forced to seal off her daughter’s bedroom with plastic to avoid any dust blowing around. Not even the family pets are permitted in to the bedroom. Her daughter is forced to sleep downstairs in an overcrowded household.
She has continued to call public officials for help – her two U.S. senators included. So far, no one is beating down Bridges’ door to help – not even Al Gore, whose Academy Award-winning movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” urges everyone to change to COMPACTFLORESCENTLIGHTs to save the planet from global warming.
A BIG air Hand Punch To: Joseph Farah
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
IF YOU WISH TO USE THESE BULBS PLEASE FIND A PLACE LIKE THIS TO DISPOSE OF THEM. HERE IS ANOTHER HELPFUL LINK.
I thought I would see what is out there to make life easier.
If you are like me, you don’t like to do paperwork.
So I let it pile up.
Now I have this pile of receipts and paper that needs filing.
Well,I happen to stumble upon this travel scanner
Problem solved.
I am so a coffee drinker.
I have a coffee in the morning.
But the best is right after work.
Americano is my favorite.
Here have a coffee
on me
Thanks. Cartoline
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