i had this happen too; my laptop. i’m a cappy. work is life

I forgot to say – kids excluded!!

I actually really love my fireproof safe (it’s a small one) that holds my important documents… because it’s a place where I can plan to put stuff that I would want to grab in such a situation.

Unfortunately, I don’t keep anything knick-knacky or jewelry in there, because in order to enjoy that stuff, it needs to be out where I can get at it. Hmmmph.

I’d grab my laptop, which at least has most of my writing on it… and my phone because I’m very practical about stuff like that — need a phone in order to make plans and contact the insurance company and let my mom know I’m not dead.

And then I’d cry. A LOT. Because I LOVE ALL OF MY STUFF. A LOT.

Shell, you remind me how lucky I am… any pictures I have that are not digital, my mom and sis have copies of at their homes.

You might want to go to Kinkos and invest in scanning all those pics in and keeping them in storage online somewhere.

i have venus in taurus. i don’t like this question heh.

cd cases of all my computer/writing/art stuff and a rare album sitting next to them. i imagine there would be a different instinct response if i didn’t have any kind of warning. my first concern would probably be if my pets were okay.

Your guys are funny. I live with Taurus and their crap is everywhere. The soldier has a sweater I gave him 30 years ago. He says he still wears it from time to time. “I always liked that sweater”

But it’s a perfectly good sweater! *giggle*

I already have it set up. The four folders of various kinds of CD/DVD backups, and if I have time, the two removable drawers of personal stuff, and the server. Cats and dogs go out first before anything. 120 seconds tops, depending on how long it takes to herd the cat. Of course, if I have a 120 seconds (an awful long time), I would probably grab the old books and the paving brick from the Hippodrome. The rest I can replace.

But I’ve kept this stuff in mind for a coupla decades; you learn to plan for this stuff when you’re dealing with network security.

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Nothing. I would leave and never look back. I guess I would consider it freedom! Freedom from pictures, memories, habits, junk, stuff, a life left behind. Freedom to start from scratch however way I like it, take a different path, start fresh

Funny you wrote this blog, I had a dream a few weeks ago about this same thing happening to me. In the dream, I’m in the house and everything was in flames. I was on the first floor and my clothes were peeling away until I was naked and light – I was listening to the sound of fire and I slowly drifted up through the top of the house and soared out safe. I was so light, I could just leave everything behind. In the dream, the fire was opportunity to leave, to become new again. The Aries in me loved it.

I wonder how many of us actually get a “start over” card like this in real life? I remember wishing for such a phenomenon many times, but it has only happened twice (the first I wanted, the second I did not). We usually have to put up with circumstances in life for a long time before they ever change. Too bad we don’t get to choose when we want to just throw it all away and start again!

Oh, and I think you can choose to start something new anytime…I’ve done it, repeatedly (Sun opposed Uranus).

I’m a Taurus. My laptop and credit cards and whatnot are always in my ‘purse’ (see: the Wizard of Oz’s Bag), so I’d grab that.

I’d sure miss my blanket, my wooden bull, my DVD’s, my vitamins (they’re expensive!)…hell, I’d probably even miss that can of soup in my cupboard.

Husband and kittehs. Then the laptop if there’s time.

Bunneh. Can’t leave without the bunneh! Hubby. And if I was awoken by the fire, I’d have to put on some clothes. That’s about it.

My photos were already destroyed by flood, extremely important papers are in the safety deposit box, eventually we’ll have a fire- and water-proof safe to keep moderately important stuff in.
I know that the both of us would mourn the books, though. We have a combined library of well over a couple hundred, some of which are old and irreplaceable.

Advice for those of you thinking about getting a fire-proof safe: spring for the water-proofing as well if you can afford it. It’s no use for it to survive the fire if the hoses are going to ruin it!

I had a place burn down once. Was sleeping, was young, had friends sleeping all over the house from a party the night before. Only had time to wrap a blanket around my naked self, wake everyone & leave. Lost nearly everything except ironically the stuff that was salvaged from a front room that was used for “overflow” ie: stuff you don’t need & don’t know what to do with. Didn’t even have time to get dressed – standing outside naked in a blanket with the neighbors gawking was awkward, lol.

If it happened again, besides people & pets of course, I’d try to grab my car keys. The last time I had to pull the ignition and start it with a screwdriver. I doubt I could even do that with today’s cars which prevent that. (I had an old Dodge Dart at the time)

Assuming the luxury of time, I guess purse, important paper folder & whatever art I could grab.

And oh shit – about hundred gallons of mead, lol. Losing my precious homebrew would likely kill me.

If I think about it , I can`t choose because there are so many things I am attached too…maybe nothing because I don`t want to disriminate..
A couple of years back something in the appartment above us exploded, but me and my little brother though they where just refunishing when we heard the bang..
I was on my way in to the shower..and my brother was half sleeping..ended up fighting with a firefighter in the stairs , because i tried to tell him that regardless , I needed shoes…he would not let me go back in!!
I was so pissed!so in the middle of the winter , I had to get out with just a robe…no underwear and barefoot and when we finally got a cop car to sit in while they put out the fire…one cop has the nerve to ask me if I had my Id on me!! I was like YeaH!! offcourse I do…
lucky no one was injured and there was no damage to our appartment…the bastards above us had stored lots of dangerous liquids…wow long post..haha I appologize:)

“i slept through the smoke alarms. i slept though people pounding on the door trying to evacuate everyone.”

My cousin was like that. We used to live together for a while, as uni students, and NOTHING could rouse her. I would SHAKE her and YELL at her and still no awakening. I had to practically pull her off the bed and knock her onto the floor every time (we had lots of alarms).

I always worried what would happen to her on those nights when I slept elsewhere. No alarm was strident enough to reach her.