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

One option is a cooler (ice chest).  They are reasonably inexpensive, and if 
you put your stuff inside,  close it, and then run some duct tape around the 
top, it will be waterproof, and  will protect the contents from short term 
exposure to heat (or freezing).

I used to use one of these, lined with foam, to hold my underwater camera 
equipment.  



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

From: Shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: keeping negatives dry and safe on the gulf coast
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 2:25 PM

Good idea.  We use those for papers, documents, etc.  I guess if there is no 
substantial flooding, where they would float and then capsize, they would 
work.  They could be on a high shelf.

I saw a lot of floating and capsizing in NOLA after Katrina.  But my biggest 
worry here is not catastrophic flooding, but rather a tree falling on the roof 
and letting in rain.

--shannon


On Mar 18, 2009, at 12:30 PM, eyefem2001@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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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