Darren New schrieb:
> Invisible wrote:
>> For the average home user, if your house burns down, you're not going 
>> to give a **** about the holiday photos and the copy of Nero you just 
>> lost - YOU HAVE NOWHERE TO LIVE!! 
> 
> Not true. Well, Nero, maybe, but holiday photos and pictures of people 
> who are now dead and such are irreplacable. You can always get somewhere 
> new to live, or fix the house.

Reminds me of a recent incident here in the city I live in (Cologne 
Germany).

They're building a new southbound subway tunnel (well, actually, 
/currently/ they're /not/ building, as far as I know).

Some months ago, suspicious noise was heard in a large public building. 
Construction workers came in and suggested that everyone better leave 
the building... *NOW*. And literally in a matter of minutes, the whole 
building - plus a few private houses - went "down the drain". Where once 
stood an ugly, 4-story-or-so concrete monster, now there was a gaping 
20-foot-or-so deep (give or take another 20) hole, some-hundred-foot by 
one-hundred-foot or so.

Two people were asleep at the time in the private homes that it took 
down with it, so there was some loss of life to mourn (fortunately there 
were not more casualties). And quite a number of people lost their 
homes. However, most of them mourned not so much the loss of a place to 
put their toothbrush, but rather the loss of irreplacable property - 
documents such as photos, letters and the like.

So did the city: The building that had collapsed was the historical archive.

And it was /not/ dry weather those days.

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