Disaster Preparedness: Another Reminder

Tornadoes and floods devastated hundreds of thousands of acres this spring with more devastation sure to come as the crest of the Mississippi moves down river at record levels to Louisiana during the next couple of weeks. 

Damage from this extraordinary weather leaves television news commentators searching for new adjectives to describe the destruction, yet words can never convey the damage, personal, and communal grief like the photos and video images that they broadcast. 

Images are very powerful communicators.  While its nice that we can use Facebook to post images of found photographs to try to reunite an owner and his/her photos, it's safer and more reliable to care about our own legacy by creating digital files of our favorite photographs, color slides, and important documents, and storing them in a safe place, like the cloud. You can learn more at OurHeritageVault.com. 


Kimberly Lankford, Contributing Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, offer some very good advice about disaster preparedness for the upcoming hurricane season and other calamities on the Kiplinger web site.