Easter flood
It'd be nice to say it was somewhere else, but it was in our garage. Our washer decided not to notice when the tub was full and overflowed all over. I didn't find out for hours because I was upstairs working. Our neighbor called to let me know there was water flowing out from under the garage door, but by then everything on the floor of the garage was totally soaked.
We worked until dark last night, and again all day today to get all the boxes out and examined, and do a cursory sort of what was destroyed and what could be salvaged. Many tears and whimpers later, we have a pile of several hundred books, some of them long out of print, plus my collection of early 50's pulps, which will have to be thrown away. The paper is soaked and tearing from being stuck together and I don't have the time or training to do a library-style restoration, or the funds to pay someone else to do it. *sigh*
Now I understand why it's recommended to put boxes on risers or pallets when stored near a laundry setup, tub or water heater. Wish we'd thought to do that.
It's funny how much I regret that this happened, and yet I hadn't even thought about those things for years... if this hadn't forced my hand, I wonder if I ever would have looked into those boxes...
Many thanks to our neighbor, Richard, who came over and worked along with us, moving boxes and loaning us the use of his garage as overflow space until we can get stuff into a storage locker.
We worked until dark last night, and again all day today to get all the boxes out and examined, and do a cursory sort of what was destroyed and what could be salvaged. Many tears and whimpers later, we have a pile of several hundred books, some of them long out of print, plus my collection of early 50's pulps, which will have to be thrown away. The paper is soaked and tearing from being stuck together and I don't have the time or training to do a library-style restoration, or the funds to pay someone else to do it. *sigh*
Now I understand why it's recommended to put boxes on risers or pallets when stored near a laundry setup, tub or water heater. Wish we'd thought to do that.
It's funny how much I regret that this happened, and yet I hadn't even thought about those things for years... if this hadn't forced my hand, I wonder if I ever would have looked into those boxes...
Many thanks to our neighbor, Richard, who came over and worked along with us, moving boxes and loaning us the use of his garage as overflow space until we can get stuff into a storage locker.