I live in New Orleans and my house was under water for almost three weeks. I lost my house and I lost all my paper documentation and all my pictures. My fall project was going to be scanning all this stuff so it wouldn’t be lost. Now it is.

If you have not already scanned everything, do it now. If you don’t have a scanner digital photographs come out great. Make sure you backup, backup, backup! And share, share, share! Share what you have now. You never know what is going to happen. It can all be lost in a flash.

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