“Here’s how to protect everything from the portrait of your great grandmother to your dad’s dorky high school yearbook photo.” Reported by Shelby Brown
Hurricane preparedness tips from CNET: ”When a natural disaster hits and your possessions are lost or destroyed, people sometimes offer the phrase “things can be replaced” as comfort. 6 ways to protect your precious photos if disaster strikes”
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If using an app isn’t cutting it, you can turn to a professional service. ScanMyPhotos, located in Irvine, California, offers physical photo scanning, negative scanning and slide scanning. You can mail the company a box of photos to restore or the website can transfer VHS media and 8mm film to DVD to save old home-movies.
Depending on your photo-scanning needs, the site has different options to get the job done. If you don’t have that many photos, scans start at 8 cents each. If you’re getting close to 2,000 photos, the $145-prepaid box is the best idea. Pack the box, send it off and after the project is complete, you’ll get the box back with electronic copies of your scans and a book listing your photos. CNET editor Kent German tried out ScanMyPhotos to digitize
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Watch this Weather Channel profile on what happens when a devastating hurricane and its storm surges wipe out a lifetime of family nostalgia and have to plan ahead by digitizing your pictures, now.
Why There Was No Weeping After the Storm Destroyed Generations of Photos
"You can easily buy furniture, curtains and kitchen appliances again. But losing photographs? Devastating." For @CNET's #RoadTrip2020, @shelbybrown91 on keeping some of your most treasured possessions safe. https://t.co/XH9NlUGRCf via @CNET
— Kent German (@KentGerman) August 6, 2020
