I wrote Bernie last night but unsurprisingly, have not heard back.
After relief at their personal safety, my first concern was for Bernie's
archive of recordings. I was profoundly relieved to read in a KQED story
today that there were off-site backups in two locations.
I will take this moment to beg, *beg*, people to please consider hosting a
copy of their archives with the nonprofit I work for, the Internet Archive.
We host, provide access to, and preserve digital works of cultural interest
free of charge in perpetuity. We also where appropriate derive
lower-bandwidth and streamable copies of full-resolution original works.
While our standard model is to host material that is released to the public
domain or under Creative Commons licenses (which include an option for
barring any commercial use without separate negotiation, etc.), for well
curated collections we also do at times preserve things with limited or no
public access now=96so that we have a copy for posterity.
If you have archives of your work, like Bernie's, which represent a
lifetime of irreplaceable soundscape of inestimable aesthetic and
scientific interest=96please, please, please, consider archiving a copy wit=
h
us, or somewhere similar.
These fires are yet another unnecessary reminder of how suddenly any single
copy of anything can be destroyed.
To quote the Stanford project which uses this name: Lots of Copies Keeps
Stuff Safe.
I apologize if this sounds like an advertisement. :/ The interest is 100%
in making sure the work we do is preserved for future generations. We are a
nonprofit funded entirely by donation grant and foundations, our mission
statements is: *universal access to all knowledge*.
I a moved to write by the deep sickening horror I felt at the notion that
Bernie's life work could have been lost. There were no words equal to that
loss. :(
aaron
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:56 AM, [naturerecordists] =
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> wrote:
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>
> People fleeing the fire had often less than an hour to get themselves and
> any valuable possessions into a car and leave their homes to seek shelter=
.
> What needs to be considered is what is lost that is not replaceable and
> what you will need to submit a claim to the insurance company. When you a=
re
> submitting claims for losses your insurance agent is out of the loop and
> you are dealing with an adjuster who is very much an advissary.
>
> I lost my house in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and this took only 45
> seconds and it also destroyed my business inventory and all of my
> possessions except for clothing. It took me a year to get a dime from Sta=
te
> Farm and then it was less than 25 cents on the dollar. I would have been =
in
> far better shape financially had my house burned to the ground.
>
> Fires are much cleaner and unless you are with State Farm or Allstate, wh=
o
> both had to pay fines levied by the state insurance commissioner to move
> more expediently on claims after the 1991 Berkeley-Oakland fires, you may
> eventually get the funds to rebuild your house and your life. Twenty year=
s
> later there were many people who still had not received a full settlement
> from these two insurance companies.
>
> Having offsite records of valuable items and appraisals done of antiques
> as well as any photos or audio recordings if very important, and clearly
> offsite means in the Cloud or in a bank deposit box and not at a neighbor=
's
> house.
>
> My homeowner's insurance put the replacement construction costs for my
> current house at $175 a square foot and in my area the actual cost of
> construction is over $250 a square foot and that does not include the cos=
ts
> of demolition of the old structure and the dump fees and other costs. I h=
ad
> my policy adjusted to provide $300 a square foot for reconstruction.
>
>
>
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