Fire, Smoke, and Water....

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thu Feb 3 13:52:43 2005

At 09:01 AM 2/3/05 -0500, you wrote:
>> First the good news...No one was injured, and there is no significant
>damage
>> to the house........
>>
>> Had a fire in the one of the work areas [garage] this afternoon. It could
>> have been much worse (and would have been in a few minutes with Tiki Torch
>> Fluid, Sterno and other materials in the fire zone...
>>
>> Now the bad news.....
>>
>> TU-56, RK-05 Drive, and ALL my PDP documentation is toast!
>>
>> Believe it or not the part effecting me the most right now is the loss of
>> the original documentation, not just PDP-8 but also PDP-1, PDP-6 and (I
>> believe) some other early PDP family members.
>>
>> Time to go cry.....
>>
>> But before I go, if ANYONE has experience in dealing with insurance
>> adjustors [no, I had not yet gotten a rider for this specific equipment,


  Yes i have experience with them. I got SCREWED everytime! However I've
heard that there are people that you can hire that specialize in dealing
with insurance companies. I strongly suggest hiring one of them BEFORE you
talk to the insurnace company. If you say ONE wrong word, your claim will
be worthless. I lost a claim for $6000 or $7000 of machine equipment after
a neighbors tree fell on my shed and I said "yes" when the adjustor asked
if the equipment COULD be used for commercail use. (It could but I wasn't.)

   Joe
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