Keep your fingers cross and send good/SAFE thoughts to my wife.

[diabeticman]

Don't ask me how but our window in our dinning room fell and smashed today. These are old windows in the apartment me our renting and in order to have fresh air coming in we have to Open the window and place this screen in the window. these are old fashion windows and this screen basically adjust to fit the space. Anyways we opened the window to get some cool air. We don't leave it open at night because the window basically opened over our porch and well I don't want someone coming in so we close at night.

Anyways Wife and I get up at 8am we go make breakfast open the dinning room window and put the screen in. Wife gets ready and goes to work. I'm in other parts of the apartment (okay bathroom) and all of a sudden I hear a crashing sound. I come out and the WHOLE lower window is on the floor of the dinning room. Glass ( some HUGE pieces) are everywhere.

I call the landlord explaining the window is broke that someone can come up on our back porch and crawl right into the dinning room via the window.

He says: "The glass shop is closed today I'll pick it up tomorrow."

Mind you I explained that someone ANYONE can easily come in. We also would be charged for putting hole in the window frame area so putting up like plywood or something is out. My wife and I put up card board moving boxes and duct tape them to the window area but my wife is going to be here alone.

My wife is sleeping in the living room with the window in question in sight. I have to go to work (co-worker took vacation time so I'm starting a 7 day work week.)

Keep my wife in good thoughts please.

[Locut0s]

1. Safe thoughts, do you live in a dangerous neighborhood? You scared me while reading your post...

Sending safe thoughts.

I thought your wife had been injured by the glass from the way you talked about it. Is your neighbourhood particularly dangerous?

I guess the reason I thought she may have been injured is because of a story my grandfather likes to tell where he cut himself horribly while installing a plate glass window many years ago.

[diabeticman]

2. crime does happen around the area. We hear police sirens almost nightly. Sometimes

2 or 3 times a night

[siligut]

3. How visible is the broken window to passersby?

Have you had break-ins in the neighborhood? Put something noisy on the porch below the window, so if someone steps up she will hear them.

Good thoughts for your wife to be safe.

[diabeticman]

4. pretty noticeable. We live on a corner of 2 well travel streets. The back porch light

is out any suggestions as to something that could be heard?

[siligut]

5. Old Christmas light-bulbs, crinkly paper, cans that would be kicked over.

Good to put the light out, I think. Do you have anything tall, like a bookcase that you could put on the porch to block the window from view?

[diabeticman]

6. You know we don't at the moment but have been wanting to get cases. Thanks for the

other suggestions I think I have something we can use. to place in front of window.

[Brigid]

7. Can you maybe call your wife from time to time . . .

While you're at work?

[diabeticman]

9. I can but she does need sleep.

[femmocrat]

8. Good luck to you both!

This is not turning out to be a good year for you two so far. It is time for your luck to change for the better already!

Stay safe.

[diabeticman]

10. Thank you

[diabeticman]

11. Should my wife sleep out in the living room OR in the bedroom? She place the box of glass

in front of the window. She figures if someone tries to step into the house through the window they will step on the glass.

[siligut]

12. How did it go?

I hope your wife was safe and got some sleep.

[diabeticman]

14. Good. Thanks for asking. She did get some sleep. The window is fix.

[RILib]

13. I'm late reading this

glass companies WILL come out on weekends, even if only to board up a window. It costs more than business hours. I would think holes for attaching plywood could be fixed easily with putty.

[diabeticman]

15. Landlord is a slum lord. Cheap is his favorite word other than "Where is the rent",.