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How’s Business
by Don Blyly
We had a very good December,
partly due to the lack of blizzard, ice
storms, snow drifts, etc., that we had to
endure the year before. But it was a very
good December even compared to a
normal year. January and February
continued to be good compared to last
year, but were nothing to brag about
compared to an average year. Heating
costs being down about 1/3 from last
year helped.
Monday, January 9, I was in the
store early when I heard somebody
walking around on my roof around 8:30
a.m. I went out to see what was going
on, and saw the dentist from next door
on my roof. I asked him what he was
doing on my roof, and he said
“Photographing the evidence–come on
up and take a look.” Overnight
somebody had gotten onto the roof and
cut out the cooling coils from his two
rooftop heating/air conditioning units
and my two rooftop units. His units had
been cut up in such a way that his heat
also was not working, but both of my
units were still putting out heat. When
the repair guy showed up, he said that
there’s been a lot of this going on all
over the metro area. When I called my
insurance company, I was told that this
has been going on all over the country.
The police say that 10 properties in the
immediate area have been hit with the
same problem. The police have some
not-very-good security camera photos of
a suspect and have been trying to
identify the guy, but no luck yet. The
dentist’s insurance company replaced his
17-year-old units with new units at no
cost to him. My insurance company will
be repairing my 2 units (one of which
was only 4 months old when it was
damaged) with $1000 coming out of my
pocket, and they sent a letter that if I
have another claim within a year they
will probably refuse to insure me again.
On the morning of January 25 I
received a call from the management of
the apartment complex for the elderly
where my mother had lived for the last
14 years, telling me that my mother had
just been found to have died overnight.
I was told that the police would have to
come and look over the scene to see if
there was anything suspicious, and when
the police were done management would
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