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Revelations From the Inferno

from inveRNario by Nino Rivera

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In 1979 as a young couple, Dianna Rose and I, moved to the Drakensberg to farm. In conversation with a clairvoyant friend, he warned me of "the Being" that was asleep in the roof of our house. I guess I woke him up...here's how...

Our farmhouse was a long old rambling thatch roofed house made with mud blocks and all the rooms had a ceiling which is unusual in a thatch roof house.
The builders hadn't closed the gaps between the poles resting on top of the walls and the thatch roof. This created the perfect home for thousands of bats. In young Benedict's bedroom the ceiling began to sag which left a big damp mark forming above his bed. The bats toilet, we assumed.

I blocked up all the holes with bags and rigged up a lighting system in the ceiling. Later that night, on entering the ceiling space, I noticed that it was extremely warm and I could hear a distinct crackling sound coming from the chimney. On investigation, the thatch around the chimney almost burned my hand it was so hot, but I couldn't see any smoke or flames until I pulled away the grass seeing glowing hot embers! I called to my wife for a bucket of water while getting a ladder to climb up the chimney from the outside, pulled the grass away, poured the water onto the embers from the outside, thinking therewith to have extinguished the fire.

A wet thatch roof with a 45 degree pitch becomes a very slippery slope. After pouring my full 25 litres of water on the embers, I was immediately skiing backwards down the roof! Unintentionally, I had created an air vent, letting in air, creating a backdraft, and as I landed slightly dazed on the lawn, the roof exploded into flames.

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from inveRNario, released April 22, 2017

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