My Basement Flooded

[BoringSupreez]

My DS was on the floor when my house's basement flooded a couple years ago. Wouldn't stay on for more than a couple seconds. Put it in a Tupperware full of rice for a week and it worked like new!

Sadly, I don't think you can do that with magazines. :S

How did sitting in a container of rice fix it?

Rice absorbs moisture really well.

My first reaction if my DS got wet would be to open it up and dry out the inside manually.

[benderx]

I don't even have a basement.

[Bradtemple87]

Sorry to hear you got a flood but lucky save

[BRIK]

I can see where you're coming from in a sentimental type of way. I still have all my old gaming magazines from growing up. Haven't really flipped through them for a while, but i spent countless hours pouring over them when I was younger. All I could do in a time before high speed internet.

[skyknight]

Sorry to hear about this, but I can relate to this, as one of my buddies had his basement flooded several years ago, and his loss was greater - he had anime DVDs as well as game consoles and other personal items that he didn't want to discuss with us.

I do hope the cleanup will be quick, and I do have to tell this to people that have water works in the basement, or live in the flood plain areas (i.e. just within a mile of a major river), be sure to store important things in sturdy plastic containers, and make sure your home and property are covered by flood insurance (which is most cases are separate from house insurance).

[env963]

About 4 years ago, i was playing my dreamcast so i had it on the floor, and my basement flooded as well. It accuatly got the dreamcast wet when i picked it up water ran out of the system. After drying it out and trying 3 days later... it still worked!!! HAHA, in the end i did lose 4 or 5 dreamcast games due to water damage of the discs...

[Balasubbie]

Funny story, the kid dropped a half carton of OJ on my bro's PSP, it's been a brick ever since.

[mjmjr25]

My septic backed up about 8 months ago - 8" of standing black water in the basement (we have a split level and the lower level was completely furnished/finished). EVERYTHING that had contact w/the water was a loss. 95% of my games down there were above 8", but we lost area rugs, furniture, etc. All the drywall had to be replaced as it wicked its way up.

Here's the point, insurance in these situations covers everything at set price rates. For example, a recliner with 3 years of use was $200 (didn't matter if it was $1,000 originally or $200 originally). So, my games that were lost, about 30 gamecube games were valued at an insurance set rate $2 per game. I of course was concerned, what if my SAT JP shooters had been on that bottom shelf, $2 for Garegga? Really? I was told anything you believe the set rate isn't high enough for, you need to have it separately insured (usually your same house insurance will just add it to your existing policy). So, keep this in mind not only for flooding, but fire, theft, etc.

[BoringSupreez]

My septic backed up about 8 months ago - 8" of standing black water in the basement (we have a split level and the lower level was completely furnished/finished). EVERYTHING that had contact w/the water was a loss. 95% of my games down there were above 8", but we lost area rugs, furniture, etc. All the drywall had to be replaced as it wicked its way up.

Here's the point, insurance in these situations covers everything at set price rates. For example, a recliner with 3 years of use was $200 (didn't matter if it was $1,000 originally or $200 originally). So, my games that were lost, about 30 gamecube games were valued at an insurance set rate $2 per game. I of course was concerned, what if my SAT JP shooters had been on that bottom shelf, $2 for Garegga? Really? I was told anything you believe the set rate isn't high enough for, you need to have it separately insured (usually your same house insurance will just add it to your existing policy). So, keep this in mind not only for flooding, but fire, theft, etc.

You should get your SAT JP shooters separately insured, then.

[ZeroAX]

Rice absorbs moisture really well.

Cooked or raw? And yes this is a serious question. As someone who HATES rice as food, I have no idea how it behaves when it gets in contact with water.