Spent a good chunk of my Saturday trying to clean up some of the flood mess. The water is gone, but some boxes, and their contents were wrecked.
Some of my comics that I bought in the late 90s that I hadn't bothered to bag and board got ruined. Most of the ones getting tossed were low-value junk anyway. (Bargian bin filler I'd bought just to have something to read.) Luckily, my more valuable stuff, the bulk of my collection, didn't get touched by the water. Even if it did, those were all bagged, so they should've been relatively safe.
My VHS collection, which was boxed up under the stairs seemed mostly intact. I used this as an opportunity to get rid of about 80% of it though. Mostly the movies and anime (lots of old VHS fansubs!). The only stuff that I'm keeping is all of my concert bootlegs, videos that I taped off of MTV in the 80s-early 90s, and my personal home vids with my old band. At some point I'd like to transfer those to some sort of digital format, then toss everything except the personal vids. There was no point in keeping any of the other stuff since I've either re-bought it on DVD (most of it) or didn't like it enough to re-acquire it since I dropped VHS for DVD in the late 90s. I haven't had a working VCR in nearly a decade anyway.
Still, I did feel some pangs of regret tossing over tossing out roughly fifteen year's worth of video cassettes. Even more the comics.
Some of my comics that I bought in the late 90s that I hadn't bothered to bag and board got ruined. Most of the ones getting tossed were low-value junk anyway. (Bargian bin filler I'd bought just to have something to read.) Luckily, my more valuable stuff, the bulk of my collection, didn't get touched by the water. Even if it did, those were all bagged, so they should've been relatively safe.
My VHS collection, which was boxed up under the stairs seemed mostly intact. I used this as an opportunity to get rid of about 80% of it though. Mostly the movies and anime (lots of old VHS fansubs!). The only stuff that I'm keeping is all of my concert bootlegs, videos that I taped off of MTV in the 80s-early 90s, and my personal home vids with my old band. At some point I'd like to transfer those to some sort of digital format, then toss everything except the personal vids. There was no point in keeping any of the other stuff since I've either re-bought it on DVD (most of it) or didn't like it enough to re-acquire it since I dropped VHS for DVD in the late 90s. I haven't had a working VCR in nearly a decade anyway.
Still, I did feel some pangs of regret tossing over tossing out roughly fifteen year's worth of video cassettes. Even more the comics.
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