Aha! A question I have previously considered and planned for.
If I had only 20 minutes... this is what I would start with.
In order of importance:
- My dogs
- My emergency preparedness kit (includes clothing, bedding, and food
for three days and CD backups of my finances)
- My grandfather's Sears smoothing plane.
- My musical instruments
- Laptop computer
- Telescope design drawings
- File cabinet (more financial records and family photos).
- Whatever scopes I could throw in.
That would take 10 minutes so I could do a frantic search for things that
I've not otherwise considered.
Michelle Stone
Custom Telescopes by Plettstone
http://www.plettstone.com/telescopes
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Paul Sterngold
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:51 PM
> To: The Astronomy Connection
> Subject: Re: [TAC] BTW, has anyone been in contact with
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>
> --- Richard Crisp <rdcrisp@No-Spam> wrote:
> > Paul told me they had the van packed to leave on a moment's notice when
> > I asked him how he was doing on Monday. So far so good was the report
> on
> > Monday, but leaving nothing to chance..
>
> On Sunday morning, we went from uncomfortable to concerned to
> action-stations in about two hours. It's sometimes difficult to know how
> to respond, you don't want to be ridiculously over-cautious, but you also
> don't want to be in denial. So about noon on Sunday, we decided to
> prepare so that we wouldn't have to leave any precious item behind. As it
> turned out, the fire never got closer than about four miles, but we were
> mighty concerned for a while.
>
> It's interesting that we put hardly a thought into what to take along,
> our priorities were obvious, no questions. Photos were number one, isn't
> that funny? Then a few days' clothing. I put the entire filing cabinet in
> the van and my computer's CPU (we use Quicken and I haven't backed up to
> CD-R in a while). June grabbed her jewelry case. Our girls grabbed
> photos, plush animals, mementos. I think the last thing I put in was my
> recently acquired AP 130EDF.
>
> So what would you grab if you had 20 minutes to evacuate? Five minutes?
> It makes for interesting contemplation.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul Sterngold
>
>
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