Saving Photo Albums from Fire

[Bobbert]

I've listened to a lot of commentary about the California fires, from L.A. radio stations, to east coast-based podcasts, to the inane chatter of the WNIC morning crew.

One thing that's kind of surprised me is the large number of people who say they would grab photo albums if they had to evacuate really fast. In these days of digital photography, I didn't expect that.

I'd guess one reason would be the photo albums contain older photos that were taken on film.

Myself, after grabbing all the basics (pet, wallet, keys, clothing), I would grab my printout of computer passwords. I know that should be stored on the cloud, but for some reason I feel safer writing them down so only I can see them.

[Matt]

Is roncameron69 that hard to remember that you need to print it out?

[TC Talks]

I am sorting photos and scanning them this winter. I need the room and I need this way, my family has access to them.

[tapeisrolling]

It can be a time consuming project to digitize. It took a chunk of my life to do 4k slides of my racing photographer stint. Then the black and white negatives. Then the family photos after my parents passed. It was worth it. I combined it with the family history from work on Ancestry. I now have a family album (in the cloud) of about 1500 pics and documents. Then gave my family members the link to access it when ever.
It can be a very rewarding thing to do and not have to worry about albums and boxes in an emergency.