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Originally Posted by Pros From Dover

So, my home is in Colorado, which apparently is entirely on fire at the moment. They've just issued mandatory evacuations about 2 miles from where we live and my wife says she can see flames from the house.

I work overseas and am currently in Poland at the moment and won't be home until July.

My buddies reassure me that the fire isn't close to where we live, but it's bad enough that my wife is grabbing stuff we can't live without and going to stay with my mother until they get the fire under control. (We'd never get one of my dogs out from under the bed in a true emergency). Luckily she can sweep the bookcase full of Iron Man stuff off into a garbage bag and most of my loose figures are in tackle boxes that will readily go in another one. Plus all my camera gear, computers, hard drives and photo albums then bugging out.

But all my vehicles, my comic book collection, my carded figures...man.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has had to go through something like this?

I sure did. I had quite the collection of vintage Tron items and other things like collectible software (Visicalc, Wordperfect for Apple II, etc.) from my college days in a storage building that my parents had on their property. The place burned to the ground thanks to some twit who was burning leaves and other trash illegally next door to them, total loss.