For the first time since the drunk driver hit the house I was able to sleep with my dogs in my bed. You see, I woke up that night, looked down the stairs, and then yelled:<\/p>\n
"Rich, there's a truck in the house."<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
"When I get through with you, you're going to wish you were dead"<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
"Rich, grab the dogs and put them in your room".<\/p>\n
Then I ran to the office, dialed 911.<\/p>\n
I felt so bad for the first guy on scene as there was no one in the truck. <\/p>\n
He was there in seconds after I dialed, and he was in full cop mode, gun drawn etc. He next started yelling, "Ms. Weaver, are you okay". <\/p>\n
Then we were swarmed by all the public service people. <\/p>\n
We couldn't find Dulce. Rich had grabbed Macy, Maggie had dived behind my desk and was in full panic mode. <\/p>\n
I started screaming for Dulce and was hysterical. One of the firefighters found her and brought her to me upstairs. She was having a bad dog moment, on the whole opposite side of the house eating on a month's supply of pill poppers. That box had been sitting there for days and they hadn't touched it.<\/p>\n
She's definitely related to Emma, Emma, bad dog.<\/p>\n
Our first responders are so good. Every single first responder in Farmers Branch was in our house that night. They had to bring me a pair of shoes as there was glass everywhere and back then I didn't keep shoes upstairs.<\/p>\n
They evacuated us to the back deck because they were afraid the whole house would come down.<\/p>\n
One dear brave fireman got poor Maggie from under my desk. Though he did wear his fire gloves. I was afraid they would scare her more and I knew she wouldn't bite him, but he was right, if he bit at her and he automatically reacted, that would scare her too.<\/p>\n
She started out scared before I started screaming. And she was terrified of police lights.<\/p>\n
The cops showed us the car of bad guys and they told us to make sure that the damages hit the felony numbers.<\/p>\n
The fire chief was scared that house was going to come down and they replaced the broken column with a big jack. Once they did that, they got the cars out.<\/p>\n
For the whole time while the house was being repaired, our workers saw a police officer at least every 10 minutes, and so did I.<\/p>\n
And this is why I love Farmers Branch and I love our cops.<\/p>\n
Though it has nothing to do with the fact that my daddy's daddy and his brother were both cops.<\/p>\n
My great uncle died in the line of duty, as did one of my best friends in life, Aubrey Hawkins. We never could get that dear man in a bite suit — he was afraid he would hurt one of the dogs, and man did he love Aysha. She'd bit his fingers though!<\/p>\n
I'm not going to be Julie Wright. I'm going to tell the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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