or a flood!

I had everything backed up in 2006.
All my music, on paper in binders and on CDs and a Hard Drive and hundreds of cassettes.
We had to evacuate at around 9:00am, in less than half an hour.
We are both disabled so we packed up important papers and stuff in the car.
We brought my guitars upstairs just in case. No time or man power for anything else.
They told us there would be a few inches of water, maybe, in the basement.
We were told we could come back later in the afternoon.
The flood took out our whole first floor.
Three feet deep water mixed with mud, oil and sewage inside the house for 8 days.

Had one 250GB then which worked after being underwater for over a week.
Now I have four 500gb ext drives. 2 for 2 PCs each.
The cleanup and rebuilding is too painful to describe.
We have our home back after 2 1/2 years of work.
The first floor now looks new and better than before. We have hardly any furniture and we like it.
We love the space. Besides the losses, it was the best cleanout we ever had in 18 years.
End of story.

Wayne,

p.s. Don't ever think hiding something like in a little safe in the basement is a good idea. Water washes everything away. Half the stuff in our basement went right out the blown out windows, down into the river or somewhere else in town.

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