Carbucketty
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[o/t] My CDs are all Swiss Cheese.We had an appointment with the Arkansas National Guard this Sunday to help remove the large items from the house. (They were very nice.)
They got the pick-up truck from infront of the door, then the moldy sofas, waterloged TVs, bookcases, rusted beds, heavy wooden dressers, and the big stinky fridge out. (The freezer had a large turkey and several bags of frozen shrimp--very stinky after six weeks.  )
I finally got to rummage through the remians of the house. I found the place where my bookcase had disintergrated and dug through the pile until I found some of my CDs. (Anything that was made of fiberboard disentergrated under its own weight.)
I found some of my CDs and some of my mother's CDs from the living room.
Who woulda thunk...
...8 feet of saltwater sitting in one's house would have eaten through CDs that were stored in plastic sleeves inside of a CD box. It's only when we held them up to the light after we got home and rinsed them off.
Even the ones in the jewel cases were all swiss cheese. The salt water also ate through the stainless steel pots in the kitchen.
I also realized several weeks ago that I had left half of my Cats books at home. I thought that they were all packed up from when Dennis was threatening, but.. I must have rearranged them. Don't know where they were. So, if anyone has any duplicate brochures that they'd be willing to sell. PM me.
One final note. SCAN all of your family photos into your computer. Make a back up on a website or something. I get physically ill when I think about all of the photos that were lost that didn't need to be. I had the opportunity to scan all of my grandmother's photos several years ago. I didn't take it.
I dug Aunt Eunice's geneology papers out of one of my grandmother's dressers. It was like Katraina decided that she wanted to be Jackson Pollock. They're still readable except for a few things here and there.
The mold blotches mixed with the blobs of color that ran off ruined photographs and jewelry boxes that held little trinkets from Carnival Balls in the past. PRESERVE you family photos. Do it today. It doesn't take a hurricane--your hot water heater could leak and do the same damage.
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littlgriz
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thats relly badhi carb i wish i cold help wen our house fierthe second one all of my cds had smoke and water damig so i had to bye them all over a gin
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Jordan
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| Mumsytype wrote: | | Will you be able to claim anything on your household insurance? |
What price on memories? Household insurance might pay for all the CDs etc, but the photos? They'll pay the cost of the film and developing 
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Talis
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Email me your mailing address when you have a place to store things again. I don't have nearly the collection you did, but I'll send you a couple of my doubles. Good luck with everything.
Talis
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sweetjemimakitten
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Ah man I know what you mean, Carb. My friend moved here from New Orleans and he left his pride and joy ( A beautiful violin from 1882 ) at home, along with various other keep-sakes. He was a complete wreck when he came back after a long weekend of travelling back home. His violin had gotten attacked by the water and is pretty much useless now.
I feel for you, babe. I wish I could help, but I only have my Troika Tour IV booklet from when I saw CATS back in March..and I don't even know where it is.
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Carbucketty
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| Mumsytype wrote: | | Thanks for the reminder, Carb. I have 40 years' of family and trip photos that I've taken, all the prints and negatives - it's time to put some serious work into preserving them on CD. |
Don't just put them just on a CD. CDs have a finite lifespan. All of my burned CDs--worse than swiss cheese. The foil has peeled off of every single one of them.
I suggest that you scan them, put them on the CD, leave them on the HDD, put them on a private webserver (password protected, if need be) and them send a copy to relatives. Multiple back-ups.
| Quote: | | Many commiserations on the terrible damage. Will you be able to claim anything on your household insurance? |
The evil insurance companies are my favorite topic of conversation right now.
It's like squeezing blood from a turnip.
Homeowners insurance pay for anyting? No. That's the big stink. Private insurance companies refuse to pay anything that has been touched by water unless it was rainwater that came in because the wind opened up a hole. The roof is down to plywood in many spots. They're offering to pay 9 thousand for a new roof, fence, and the shed that's MIA. The cost of roofs has tripled since Katrina and they're using pre-Katrina data for the numbers.
The Federal Government has a National Flood Insurance Program. We were underinsured by around 17 thousand for the house and at around 60 thousand on contents.
But, I didn't own the house--so I get nothing. The government might give me a little money, but.. I doubt that I'll get more than rental assistane.
I was looking for a condo or cheap starter house before the storm. Now, I'm looking into buying one of the bungalow-style houses in our main historic district. They got flooded too, but they're a bit higher up and the water went out more quickly. That is, if I can get a loan and all.
We'll see.
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Akeyla
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*grumbles*
well, Lord of the forums, just tell me if you need any help.
I may not have many CDs, but I'll gladly send you a copy. (I have song for Jellylorum, you MUST have that  ) I'll also volunteer to be one naughty thief in the Basel trams and steal you some wall decoration... hem hem... two-sided CATS mini posters (A4)  makes awesome room hangers
take care
greets
Aky
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