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The best comic advice you'll get this month -- no kidding

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DO NOT KEEP THEM ON THE FLOOR !! I mean it - do whatever it takes.

 

I got a call at work from a neighbor who heard a funny sound

from my condo -- the flexible hose had come off the bottom

of the toilet tank and my bathroom had an inch of water in it.

Which had seeped into (and soaked) the carpet and padding of the attached

closet. Where I had some slabbed books in a cardboard box.

 

On the floor.

 

Turns out CGC cases are not waterproof (duh!).

 

The cardboard box was soaked. Water "wicks" into whatever it can.

The box had about 1/8 inch of water in the bottom -- didn't seem

too bad ... at first.

 

Three books were OK, no visible water. Twelve books had water

somewhere past the outer case. Ten of those were ok, but in two

books, water had penetrated the inner well and gotten to the paper.

 

Dozens of Mad magazines (bagged and boarded, in another cardboard box)

also had fairly severe water damage -- I had thought bags offered more

protection than they did.

 

I've learned a few things today -- don't let this happen to you.

 

gozer

 

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Wow, that's bad news. Very sorry to hear that and hope it never happens to me, because my entire collection is laid out in Alpha-Numeric filing in my Man-Cave, on my floor. Been wanting to get or make some shelving for a long time, but never got around to it or just didn't have the time or money. Your story is like a worst case scenario for me. It would wipe me out so I hope it didn't do the same for you.

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