That same night, as I lay sleeping, I heard through my open window the cries of our neighbors. I jumped from my bed and found that the entire house was filled with fire.
“Yea but coming from Dudley that's like 'I love you, '” said Harry, torn between annoyance and a desire to laugh as Aunt Petunia continued to clutch at Dudley as if he had just saved Harry from a burning building.
He had gone up there and established a plantation; but, now the house had burned down, he was tired of the " accursed place" and would be most happy to get it off his hands.
Now falling off a boat is just an example. In real life, events like your home burning down can be devastating. Recovering from these events requires a lot of money. Money that most people don't have.
In 1915 the range of business was extended with the opening of the general branch, through which fire, accident, marine and other forms of insurance were sold from 1919 onwards.
The authorities in the Italian port of Brindisi say fierce heat from slow burning blazes is keeping investigators from searching the lower decks of the ferry that caught fire nearly a week ago.
I would say it is mostly panic buying. And I hesitate to use the word shortage, because, usually, that is like yelling fire in a crowded theater. It is a scramble.