I suppose this question s/b in the Tech Room, but for all y'all who are much more knowledgeable of gear and such, I had a handful of cables that were in the water. Fortunately, this time the ends were up and out of the water. But when we flooded five years ago, we had some mic cables and such that were in the water. I've always meant to clean those up but never got around to it.

So do I have to worry about the cables that were in the water with this flood? And are the ones that were in the drink a few years ago worth cleaning or are they permanently ruined?

Last I checked, there was no noticeable rust or corrosion. These are all backups at this point, but the cheap-ass in me hates to throw away something that still can be useful.

Well.... That sucked.

90% of my record collection is waterloggged. I thought I knew the story of every purchase, but going thru them I was surprised by how many cool records that I had forgotten I owned. When did I buy all those Comsat Angels disks?

2 copies of the Futurist bit the dust too. About 2500 records all told. I will clean the vinyl, get blank sleeves and digitize this mess. Hundreds of books ruined. So much clean up to do. It could have been worse, it could have been Mark Hansen's record collection. I admire like 5 people's collections, and his tops the list.

I heard my area got 5" of rain in the hour this all happened cause of some really geeked out weather conditions.

Jason: We disclosed. Like Chris mentioned, Fuller bought the place. We talked about flooding, cause it is a concern for any buyer. We had a home inspection done when we decided to sell. We addressed any issues that seemed expensive, or needed something close to immediate attention. Or were cheap and easy. I felt good when they had their inspection, and the outstanding issues were both minor and the ones I told him about in advance. I cannot remember about our sellers. They were selling for their dead parents, so they had lots of wiggle room to say they were not aware of any condition you might pick. Most houses seem to be sold "as is" these days, and this place was no exception. The new neighbors said there was a similar flood about 10 years back which is when we got it at the last place. When the water table rises there is very little you can do about it. Neither place seems prone to flooding.

I want to be clear that Steve in no way sold me a lemon. If you ever buy anything, you want to buy it from Steve. He pointed out ever flaw he could find with the place in the most blatant act of disclosure the world has ever seen.

Much of the money he put into the house was clearly targeted to run the business, but that carried over to our benefit, and I am missing that place very much. I have fucking fuses in my new place, and electric wires coming in from the alley that look like strands of spaghetti.

Jennifer and I missed Dianogah very much when they went to practice in their new space. I miss seeing them regular like, and hearing their music forming into the songs that end up on the records. Plus Jay gave us lots of posters just for being our jerky selves [all the art work was safe from flood waters. Between Jay's posters and the Chris Ware stuff, I must have exploded].

Jay. We moved about 3 blocks west of where we were. Still walking distance to Hot Dougs. Our building is not entirely dissimilar from your old one.

Please for give my rambling, inconsistent post. I am feeling pretty fucked up. I don't know if my record collection is covered under my insurance. It is weird looking at ruined records that I skipped meal<b>s</b> to buy in my 20s.

edit: There is no such band as the Comsat Angles.

It's rather odd how that works. Not much, if any, trouble by me down on the south side. And I'm not trying to rub it in, just making an observation.

Johnny 13 wrote:Well.... That sucked.

90% of my record collection is waterloggged. I thought I knew the story of every purchase, but going thru them I was surprised by how many cool records that I had forgotten I owned. When did I buy all those Comsat Angles disks?

2 copies of the Futurist bit the dust too. About 2500 records all told. I will clean the vinyl, get blank sleeves and digitize this mess. Hundreds of books ruined. So much clean up to do. It could have been worse, it could have been Mark Hansen's record collection. I admire like 5 people's collections, and his tops the list.

I heard my area got 5" of rain in the hour this all happened cause of some really geeked out weather conditions.

Jason: We disclosed. Like Chris mentioned, Fuller bought the place. We talked about flooding, cause it is a concern for any buyer. We had a home inspection done when we decided to sell. We addressed any issues that seemed expensive, or needed something close to immediate attention. Or were cheap and easy. I felt good when they had their inspection, and the outstanding issues were both minor and the ones I told him about in advance. I cannot remember about our sellers. They were selling for their dead parents, so they had lots of wiggle room to say they were not aware of any condition you might pick. Most houses seem to be sold "as is" these days, and this place was no exception. The new neighbors said there was a similar flood about 10 years back which is when we got it at the last place. When the water table rises there is very little you can do about it. Neither place seems prone to flooding.

I want to be clear that Steve in no way sold me a lemon. If you ever buy anything, you want to buy it from Steve. He pointed out ever flaw he could find with the place in the most blatant act of disclosure the world has ever seen.

Much of the money he put into the house was clearly targeted to run the business, but that carried over to our benefit, and I am missing that place very much. I have fucking fuses in my new place, and electric wires coming in from the alley that look like strands of spaghetti.

Jennifer and I missed Dianogah very much when they went to practice in their new space. I miss seeing them regular like, and hearing their music forming into the songs that end up on the records. Plus Jay gave us lots of posters just for being our jerky selves [all the art work was safe from flood waters. Between Jay's posters and the Chris Ware stuff, I must have expoded].

Jay. We moved about 3 blocks west of where we were. Still walking distance to Hot Dougs. Our building is not entirely dissimilar from your old one.

Please for give my rambling, inconsistent post. I am feeling pretty fucked up. I don't know if my record collection is covered under my insurance. It is weird looking at ruined records that I skipped meal<b>s</b> to buy in my 20s.

John that sucks. Totally soaked?

Mark Hansen wrote:John that sucks. Totally soaked?

Yeah, even the ones in bags all took on water. I have 5 good boxes left. I have no brought myself to open them, cause I know it is all going to be the stuff I would have gladly sacrificed to save my Rezillos collections or something. I had 5 copies of the Cruising soundtrack and more Velvet Underground bootlegs than anyone I know. The sleeves are already melting under their own weight.

If I can declare them on my insurance, does anyone know how I can fairly value the collection?

Holy shit Johnny I am so sorry to hear about this. I never understand why these kind of things happen to the people who seem least deserving. I don't know what else to say except that at least the little one is safe and the damage wasn't worse.

Johnny 13 wrote:If I can declare them on my insurance, does anyone know how I can fairly value the collection?

Maybe you should give Collin a call. Since he worked in a record store, and had his own for a while, maybe he can give an estimate of the value of the records that would be authoritative enough for an insurance company.

I hate to say it, but it would have been a good idea to have had the records appraised for the insurance company before this happened. They may have a problem with paying a fair value for them if they weren't previously appraised, although I can't say for sure.

Good luck John. I hope you don't get screwed on this.

Johnny 13 wrote:

Mark Hansen wrote:John that sucks. Totally soaked?

Yeah, even the ones in bags all took on water. I have 5 good boxes left. I have no brought myself to open them, cause I know it is all going to be the stuff I would have gladly sacrificed to save my Rezillos collections or something. I had 5 copies of the Cruising soundtrack and more Velvet Underground bootlegs than anyone I know. The sleeves are already melting under their own weight.

This fucking blows. Very sorry to hear it.

I have all my shit in storage right now. I hope they have their shit together and my albs didn't get ruined.

My basement is mercifully dry.

Johnny 13 wrote:If I can declare them on my insurance, does anyone know how I can fairly value the collection?

When I had to itemize my DVD's after my burglary, I took the list price (for the Criterions) and the Amazon price. The insurance company ended up using the Best Buy price for most of them.

For the OOP ones, I noted that, and put the range of prices next to the title.

Maybe do a quickie GEMM search for the really rare ones?