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rugergirl wrote:
All of my personal data, records and pictures are stored on flash drives, one that I keep in my safe, the other in a safe deposit box at the bank.
That is a good idea, but let me share a lesson from Hurricane Katrina.
Many of the banks here in New Orleans received significant amounts of flooding during Katrina. Most of the saftey deposit boxes in town went under water. These were supposed to be safe places for important things, but no one anticipated the kind of flooding we got. A few people, like my mother in law, were lucky enough that their boxes were above the water line even though the building and the safe box room were flooded.
Check out the area where your box is located for potential damage due to flash flood, earthquake, and fire.
