Last Chance 4 Linda Hubbard's Home
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The Short Story
In every natural disaster, there is a small number of lives that slip through the cracks. This is a story of such a soul, who has dedicated her life to caring for the critically-injured, but has experienced more loss in the last two years than any one soul should endure. This is a story of a woman who needs a little help from her greater human community, to get back on track. This is a story that is not hard to solve when everyone helps just a little, because very soon we can get her back on a self-sufficient road again.
We are going to rebuild Linda Hubbard's home.
We are set up for success, and only need materials.
Before you read her whole story, it is important to communicate that we have thought this through very strategically, and several of us have personally maneuvered our way through this disaster rebuilding experience successfully. We have gathered professional oversight, and credible manpower to rebuild Linda's home. This is a very realistic plan that we intend to execute rapidly. What we need to make this happen is to pay the fee for the building permit and to purchase the materials - wood, lumber, siding, insulation, concrete, wiring, etc. We have called back and partnered with trusted resources who have saved so many homes already - the Mennonites, a local excavator, Lyons Volunteers, The River Church, and the experience of a handful of Linda's neighbors who were able to successfully navigate the rebuilding process for their own homes.
The final building permit, which has taken over two grueling years to obtain, is due in the next couple of weeks. The building permit of $6,019 is the first, critical step. We will then begin to purchase stepwise materials to begin the rebuild process.
This is a campaign to give our neighbor, our friend, our caretaker and our guardian a step back on the path to having her life back. Anything that you are able to donate will help Linda. Every rain drop creates the pond.
Linda's Story: Saving a life that has slipped through the cracks.
At the base of the Rocky Mountains, where the North and the South Saint Vrain Rivers converge, there is a peaceful and sweet neighborhood in Lyons, Colorado locally known as the "Confluence Neighborhood." Here, Linda Hubbard has resided for over three decades. In 1981, Linda and her lifelong partner, Leslie moved to an unfinished house in the quiet neighborhood with a peaceful creek. Through tears in her eyes, she shares her memories, "when Leslie walked into this house she said to me right away, 'this is it.' It was our oasis."
Linda worked as a critical care and flight nurse for 42 years, and served on our Lyons Fire Department for 22 years. Her little home by the creek was her haven for renewal of spirit.
When the 2013 Colorado Floods tore through Lyons, damaging or destroying nearly 20% of the town's housing, Linda and Leslie's little haven was directly in its path. "We'd been in flux ever since," she remembers, dropping her gaze. Initially they were shuffled between three different shelters, finally landing in temporary housing for 6 months in an entirely separate community along the front range of Colorado.
Like most "displaced" residents, they relied on minimal funds from insurance and FEMA to initially help finance their interim lives while engaging in the grueling and extremely complicated process of rebuilding their disaster-stricken home. But with an additional rental to finance while maintaining full mortgage and utility payments for an uninhabitable house, they soon found themselves unable to afford their displaced lives. Nearly a year ago, Linda moved into a camper on their destroyed home's property as a last measure to keep a place to live.
Like many who have experience this process, Linda has been navigating the grueling process of obtaining approvable building permit to safely rebuild her home. Recently, local news has finally afforded greater attention to this exhausting process, validating the painful process that "flood displaced" residents are still contending with years after the disaster: financing endless engineering studies, navigating and funding re-application after reapplication, re-tracking steps when flood plain information changes or is corrected from inaccurate advice, paying and re-paying fees, affording contractor expenses... all while displaced from a "normal" home and enduring the rollercoaster of emotions and emotional trauma that accompany the process.
A little over a year after the 2013 flood, Linda was devastated by a string of more life-altering tragedies; she was forced to bury her love and sweet partner of 36 years. Leslie passed away quickly and unexpectedly, only days after a vaccination to which her body had a devastating reaction. "It was really her house. I need to rebuild it as a memorial to her.” Only four months later, her mother passed away, then her best friend and father only 6 months after that. The series of devastations took a heavy and hard toll to her body and well-being. Just this past fall and winter, she has been critically hospitalized twice with an infected gallbladder and a traumatic onset of sepsis.
This is a campaign to start the process rolling and to help Linda get back on the road to living her life again. Exhausted and depleted, only a few weeks ago Linda was about to give up on her home and walk away defeated. Several of us from her community have helped renew her hope, and now we are asking you to please help us come together to lighten her burden and provide a last chance for Linda Hubbard's home. Sometimes life throws too much pain for one person to bare alone, and a circle of fellow humans can help dissipate it without over-burdening any one person. Please join our circle to help lighten her burden.
For those who would prefer to donate directly, The River Church in Lyons is collecting any funds for Linda by check. You can donate by mailing to or dropping a check to "Linda Hubbard" off at 18668 N St Vrain Dr, Lyons, CO 80540.
In every natural disaster, there is a small number of lives that slip through the cracks. This is a story of such a soul, who has dedicated her life to caring for the critically-injured, but has experienced more loss in the last two years than any one soul should endure. This is a story of a woman who needs a little help from her greater human community, to get back on track. This is a story that is not hard to solve when everyone helps just a little, because very soon we can get her back on a self-sufficient road again.
We are going to rebuild Linda Hubbard's home.
We are set up for success, and only need materials.
Before you read her whole story, it is important to communicate that we have thought this through very strategically, and several of us have personally maneuvered our way through this disaster rebuilding experience successfully. We have gathered professional oversight, and credible manpower to rebuild Linda's home. This is a very realistic plan that we intend to execute rapidly. What we need to make this happen is to pay the fee for the building permit and to purchase the materials - wood, lumber, siding, insulation, concrete, wiring, etc. We have called back and partnered with trusted resources who have saved so many homes already - the Mennonites, a local excavator, Lyons Volunteers, The River Church, and the experience of a handful of Linda's neighbors who were able to successfully navigate the rebuilding process for their own homes.
The final building permit, which has taken over two grueling years to obtain, is due in the next couple of weeks. The building permit of $6,019 is the first, critical step. We will then begin to purchase stepwise materials to begin the rebuild process.
This is a campaign to give our neighbor, our friend, our caretaker and our guardian a step back on the path to having her life back. Anything that you are able to donate will help Linda. Every rain drop creates the pond.
Linda's Story: Saving a life that has slipped through the cracks.
At the base of the Rocky Mountains, where the North and the South Saint Vrain Rivers converge, there is a peaceful and sweet neighborhood in Lyons, Colorado locally known as the "Confluence Neighborhood." Here, Linda Hubbard has resided for over three decades. In 1981, Linda and her lifelong partner, Leslie moved to an unfinished house in the quiet neighborhood with a peaceful creek. Through tears in her eyes, she shares her memories, "when Leslie walked into this house she said to me right away, 'this is it.' It was our oasis."
Linda worked as a critical care and flight nurse for 42 years, and served on our Lyons Fire Department for 22 years. Her little home by the creek was her haven for renewal of spirit.
When the 2013 Colorado Floods tore through Lyons, damaging or destroying nearly 20% of the town's housing, Linda and Leslie's little haven was directly in its path. "We'd been in flux ever since," she remembers, dropping her gaze. Initially they were shuffled between three different shelters, finally landing in temporary housing for 6 months in an entirely separate community along the front range of Colorado.
Like most "displaced" residents, they relied on minimal funds from insurance and FEMA to initially help finance their interim lives while engaging in the grueling and extremely complicated process of rebuilding their disaster-stricken home. But with an additional rental to finance while maintaining full mortgage and utility payments for an uninhabitable house, they soon found themselves unable to afford their displaced lives. Nearly a year ago, Linda moved into a camper on their destroyed home's property as a last measure to keep a place to live.
Like many who have experience this process, Linda has been navigating the grueling process of obtaining approvable building permit to safely rebuild her home. Recently, local news has finally afforded greater attention to this exhausting process, validating the painful process that "flood displaced" residents are still contending with years after the disaster: financing endless engineering studies, navigating and funding re-application after reapplication, re-tracking steps when flood plain information changes or is corrected from inaccurate advice, paying and re-paying fees, affording contractor expenses... all while displaced from a "normal" home and enduring the rollercoaster of emotions and emotional trauma that accompany the process.
A little over a year after the 2013 flood, Linda was devastated by a string of more life-altering tragedies; she was forced to bury her love and sweet partner of 36 years. Leslie passed away quickly and unexpectedly, only days after a vaccination to which her body had a devastating reaction. "It was really her house. I need to rebuild it as a memorial to her.” Only four months later, her mother passed away, then her best friend and father only 6 months after that. The series of devastations took a heavy and hard toll to her body and well-being. Just this past fall and winter, she has been critically hospitalized twice with an infected gallbladder and a traumatic onset of sepsis.
This is a campaign to start the process rolling and to help Linda get back on the road to living her life again. Exhausted and depleted, only a few weeks ago Linda was about to give up on her home and walk away defeated. Several of us from her community have helped renew her hope, and now we are asking you to please help us come together to lighten her burden and provide a last chance for Linda Hubbard's home. Sometimes life throws too much pain for one person to bare alone, and a circle of fellow humans can help dissipate it without over-burdening any one person. Please join our circle to help lighten her burden.
For those who would prefer to donate directly, The River Church in Lyons is collecting any funds for Linda by check. You can donate by mailing to or dropping a check to "Linda Hubbard" off at 18668 N St Vrain Dr, Lyons, CO 80540.
Organiser and beneficiary
Rebecca Hayden Louzan
Organiser
Lyons, CO
Linda Hubbard
Beneficiary
