[pure-silver] Re: keeping negatives dry and safe on the gulf coast

Hi Shannon,
 
I'm in Houston as well.  Honestly, I never considered it (maybe I should... big 
trees missed the house by a few yards during Ike!!).... I saw plenty of rented 
storage buildings that lost their roofs during the storm.  Some rental places 
are better than others.  How about heavy-duty plastic storage bins kept in your 
house or office?  Not fire-proof, but would likely be kept dry (if not blown 
away!).
 
Guess I'm not much help.. but I am also very interested in suggestions.
 
Valerie
 

 

--- On Wed, 3/18/09, Shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pure-silver] keeping negatives dry and safe on the gulf coast
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 12:09 PM

Hi, every summer I leave my darkroom in Houston and go to TN to be a farmer
again.  Every summer for the past ten years I have parked my negatives in my
partner's office, at the University of Houston. It seemed like a safe place,
as it was a relatively new building, with sprinklers for fire, etc.  At least,
it seemed safer than our old house.  But that proved not to be the case:  last
summer, Hurricane Ike blew the roof of his office building, and his office got
really wet.  Luckily my negatives were in a file cabinet that didn't get
wet, but it was close.

So, I'm trying to figure out how to keep them dry in the event of a
hurricane this summer.  We have a better house now, but it could still get a
tree blown down on its roof. His office building is fixed supposedly, but you
never know.  I have been thinking that I would like to find a storage place,
maybe like a rented storage, for my negatives over the summer. What kind of
place should I look for?  I have a lot of negatives, some in plastic binder
boxes, and some 4x5 negatives in paper sleeves in cardboard boxes.

I have a fireproof waterproof safe in TN where I keep a few of my most precious
negatives, but it doesn't hold very many, and bigger versions of this safe
seem pretty expensive.  Do other folks on this list worry about flooding and
fire?  how do you protect your negatives when you're gone, etc?

--shannon


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