YouTuber LGR felt 'numbness at how powerless I was' as his one-of-a-kind retro PC collection took a direct hit from hurricane Helene, but seeing most of the trove survive now has him eager to share it
YouTuber LGR felt 'numbness at how powerless I was' as his one-of-a-kind retro PC collection took a direct hit from hurricane Helene, but seeing most of the trove survive now has him eager to share it
Retro PC YouTuber LGR was relieved to find much of his collection intact, but told me that "more than ever that there's a need to redistribute a lotta this stuff" to ensure its preservation.
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I watched his video doing a walkthrough of the damage yesterday. It's really sad. Not just his collection of all this stuff that he is so passionate about, but his whole house. So much damage caused by nature. I hope he's able to get things back to semi-normal soon.
Same, fucking catastrophe. I wonder how many "only 100 good condition of these are left in existence" things got destroyed. We need an Endangered Species Act for weird retro tech or something.
I believe he had a new in box Apple Newton that sustained a bunch of water damage. Not sure how rare those are.
I recently volunteered at a community recycling drive where people could drop off old tvs and broken things. You would not believe the amount of valuable stuff people brought. An old lady had a box with an nes and about 15 games plus a PS1 and who knows what else. I asked her if she wanted to keep it as it's valuable, she said no. I left it in her trunk.
Next time I'm going to stand a block or so away with a sign asking for old computers and stuff, it's ridiculous how muxh valuable old tech gets thrown away.
Yeah, my parents are getting to the nursing home stage and last week my dad tells me he just has this basically new old stock giant 2000's Trinitron CRT that's been basically unused and sitting in a cupboard for 20 years and I was like "Do not throw that away, I'll put it in storage when you need it gone!" I live in a tiny apartment and thus have nowhere to put it, but I'd rather keep it in unused storage I'm paying for anyway or sell it online or something than reduce the net stock of high quality late CRTs out there. So many gems rotting in attics only to be thrown away when people move out there...
Yeah, and we probably should discourage storing them in areas prone to hurricanes.
He lives in western North Carolina, definitely not an area prone to hurricanes.
My bad, I'm not familiar with NC, so I guess I assumed Ashville was near the coast.
Asheville isn't even prone to hurricanes, it's inland in the mountains, people literally moved there from Louisiana and Florida on the premise it would be safer, but... Post-global warming you can even get cyclones on the great lakes (happened in '96) and the Southwest desert can get monsoons... Waterproof electronics bunkers, maybe?
So far, things seem to be prety decent where I'm at in Utah, but we do have the looming risk of "the big one" Earthquake. But to be fair, that has a pretty high chance of causing Yellowstone to erupt, which would probably kill everyone on the planet, so I guess I prefer a quicker death to starvation.
But yeah, Ashville is way in there, no wonder he was surprised.
Yellowstone would only immediately kill people within a certain radius. overall it would be pretty survivable.
Huh, I thought it would be bigger than that, what with how massive it is and how much ash would go up into the sky.
Looks like I would probably survive, but my house wouldn't, and getting out would royally suck because it would wreck the air intake for my car. But I could probably make it out.
I have no clue how he's this quickly been able to have such a positive attitude and sense of humor about it. I'd be despondent in his shoes.
I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised; Clint always brings such enthusiasm and positivity to his videos. He's a go-to when I'm sick. He's like chicken noodle soup in video form.
Probably being wealthy helps
