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Posted By: Jason

Well I had a flood in February that gave me the honour of having 9 inches of water throughout my house. The obvious thing that saved my collection is that I had it up high.

My place is constructed out of concrete so it would be pretty resilient to fire. One thing to consider about fires. Back in my net admin student days. Our school had a fire. We had all our data in a fireproof safe. Sure the disks and stuff didn't burn but the heat sure did melt it.

I imagine all our finely slabbed cardboard would have the same thing happen to it. So look into a heat resistant safe that can handle the sort of heat that would be generated if there is a fire in that room.