Evacuate your home--with your sewing machine?
04-03-2011, 08:59 AM
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Originally Posted by MTS
Like, really had to leave this second kind of evacuation?
Laptop and the quilt in my avatar.
I've scanned all the important documents in - they're stored in the "cloud." Wherever the heck that is.
Oh, and the other humans living here. ;-)
I was cleaning the other day (a miracle in itself) and found a paper clip on the floor and went to toss it out because I was too lazy to walk to the other room and put it in the desk drawer.
And then I thought again about how the people in Japan who lost everything - well, everything really means EVERYTHING. They don't even have a freaking paper clip.
In that context when you look around at all the crap in your own home, it's very humbling.
Laptop and the quilt in my avatar.
I've scanned all the important documents in - they're stored in the "cloud." Wherever the heck that is.
Oh, and the other humans living here. ;-)
I was cleaning the other day (a miracle in itself) and found a paper clip on the floor and went to toss it out because I was too lazy to walk to the other room and put it in the desk drawer.
And then I thought again about how the people in Japan who lost everything - well, everything really means EVERYTHING. They don't even have a freaking paper clip.
In that context when you look around at all the crap in your own home, it's very humbling.
04-03-2011, 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by MTS
Like, really had to leave this second kind of evacuation?
Laptop and the quilt in my avatar.
I've scanned all the important documents in - they're stored in the "cloud." Wherever the heck that is.
Oh, and the other humans living here. ;-)
I was cleaning the other day (a miracle in itself) and found a paper clip on the floor and went to toss it out because I was too lazy to walk to the other room and put it in the desk drawer.
And then I thought again about how the people in Japan who lost everything - well, everything really means EVERYTHING. They don't even have a freaking paper clip.
In that context when you look around at all the crap in your own home, it's very humbling.
Laptop and the quilt in my avatar.
I've scanned all the important documents in - they're stored in the "cloud." Wherever the heck that is.
Oh, and the other humans living here. ;-)
I was cleaning the other day (a miracle in itself) and found a paper clip on the floor and went to toss it out because I was too lazy to walk to the other room and put it in the desk drawer.
And then I thought again about how the people in Japan who lost everything - well, everything really means EVERYTHING. They don't even have a freaking paper clip.
In that context when you look around at all the crap in your own home, it's very humbling.
04-03-2011, 04:00 PM
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In 2004 when we had so many hurricanes in Florida, DH and I and another couple went up to the panhandle. She and I both took our sewing machines (took papers, stuff like that also). Our motel just happened to be near a WM that had fabric, so she and I bought fabric and made a quilt. We were there for 10 days so we were very glad that we had something to do. DHs were also!
04-03-2011, 04:13 PM
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After making sure the family was out I would do my best to save, in this order: my mother's figurines, an antique budwieser mirror that hung in my grandparents' restaurant, my phone, my laptop, the tshirt quilt I am making for my daughter that consists of shirts and hoodies from pre-k to 5th grade, photos and my Harley
04-03-2011, 05:33 PM
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Well, for the computer if you have an online backup service, just grab the laptop if you have one. If only a computer, and you have time, then save all your documents to a flash drive. The cost of the online service is well worth the expense of losing the information for this and computer crashes.
As for the machines, yes any vintage machine I would grab. If it's in a cabinet, then unfasten and take along if you have the time to remove it. I would of course grab a new portable and one or two containers of projects to work on.
These items are of course along with all of the other emergency list items for evacuation.
I pray that all in the fire area will stay safe including all the animals.
Pam M
As for the machines, yes any vintage machine I would grab. If it's in a cabinet, then unfasten and take along if you have the time to remove it. I would of course grab a new portable and one or two containers of projects to work on.
These items are of course along with all of the other emergency list items for evacuation.
I pray that all in the fire area will stay safe including all the animals.
Pam M
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