I was scanning photos and listening to BBC Essex yesterday and was struck by an item on the awful fires in Australia. An Essex woman was desperately trying to contact her brother and his family who lived in one of the worst hit areas, naturally she feared the worst.
The tale had a happy ending, the BBC managed to track down the lost brother who was safe and well. Brother and sister had spoken and the brother was interviewed about his experience. What struck me was what he said he’d picked up the moment they got the instruction to evacuate his house immediately. First was a leather jacket (to help protect him from the fire) and third was “important documents”.
Second was his family photos. From a personal and professional perspective I can understand that, but I also have conversations with people planning to digitise their family photo archive, people who would find it hard to assemble all their photos in several hours. So what we would we, thankfully away from the risk of bush fires, do if faced with flood or someother British disaster?
I can smugly say all my photos are safely backed up online thanks to Apple and MobileMe. Digital files can be recovered instantly, even if I lost my computers as long as I could get internet access I could download my jpgs and re-instate my photo library. You could do the same, but you have to act now.
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