[Milsurplus] A moment of silence...

Fri Jul 14 12:35:07 EDT 2017

You may want to check with your insurance company on their policies.

I had a co-worker who sold socks and kept the inventory in his basement. His insurance would not cover it unless it was stored on shelves or pallets at least 4 inches off the floor.

The guy grumbled but did mount the inventory on shelves. One day his sewer backed up. Articles stored on the floor were destroyed; fortunately his inventory was saved.

Since then I never store equipment or boxes on the floor; everything is on a pallet or on shelves.

Why socks? He reasoned that was one piece of fashion apparel which doesn't go out of date over time.

Mike N2MS

> On July 14, 2017 at 9:42 AM Mike Feher <n4fs at eozinc.com> wrote:
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>     9 years ago my basement flooded due to a burst water heater. My basement is about 2000 square feet that is unfinished, however flor to ceiling of electronics. Mostly antique and military radios along with my ham radio station Also tons of literature and about 200K vacuum tubes. The water was only 2 inches high, but evenly distributed over the entire basement. Never considering insurance, my youngest son at the time who was 26 was living with me so we immediately went to work trying to clean it up. The more we worked the sicker I got seeing the extensive damage caused all over the basement, which led me to think of insurance. They were here immediately with a cleanup crew. Of course the crew did as much if not more damage than the water, but the insurance agent told me to just put everything on the list. It took me over a year to complete the list, and when finished I had over 1000 line items and around a total of 20K items on the list with a value of over $200K. The good thing is that my better and rarer early radio stuff was upstairs. Anyway, they paid every penny I claimed without argument and on top of it the cost of mold removal and prevention. So for me, at lest from a financial perspective, I have no complaints at all. 73 – Mike
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>     Mike B. Feher, N4FS
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>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Peter Gottlieb
>     Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 10:17 PM
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>     Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] A moment of silence...
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>     It's only going to get worse as the climate changes continue.  What this means is that you should not be storing valuable items like collected radio gear in locations like basements which are subject to flooding.  Most mil gear can easily handle higher temperatures such as found in attics and that might be a better choice of storage location if available.  Also, a damp basement promotes mold.
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>     If you do need to store items in a basement which might flood, see if at least you can get the gear listed on your homeowner's insurance.  This can usually be done for a small fee.
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>     Peter
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>     kb2vtl
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>     On 7/13/2017 7:38 PM, Dave Merrill wrote:
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>     > Heavy, heavy rains across the Midwest.  Lots of flooding.
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>     > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 6:33 PM W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com <mailto:w2hx at w2hx.com mailto:w2hx at w2hx.com%20%3cmailto:w2hx at w2hx.com >> wrote:
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>     >     And what is this in reference to? What happened?
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>     >     *Subject:* [Milsurplus] A moment of silence...
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>     >     As you read this, many beautiful old radios in the American Midwest have
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>     >     needlessly, senselessly drowned in flooded basements. What was once a
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>     >     wonderful old radio is now a drowned corpse. Let us observe a moment of
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>     >     silence for this tragedy...
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>     >     Sent from my Ain't Smart Phone.
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