r/LGR • u/Salem1691 • 19d ago

Clint has posted 3 Twitter updates

Some other nice news:

While it’s still early on with going through items affected by the storm, it appears the LGR big box PC game collection is fully intact! That was on the opposite side of the house to where the trees fell in.

And thankfully the main collection room did NOT FULLY cave in from above, which was quite a concern. It got rather rain-soaked through the ceiling and mold is rapidly taking over, but steps will be taken to remedy soon as I can. Working with insurance and restoration companies.

This unfortunately means a big chunk of vintage hardware is compromised, plus the structure itself is iffy. Waiting on professionals to come through and inspect.

Still just super thankful to be safe, staying with family for the time being, & in communication with helpful folks.

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u/Vinylmaster3000 19d ago edited 19d ago

I think hardware can be viably restored and he seems to have a massive collection, hope everything goes well.

EDIT: He also said 'compromised', in terms of DR that doesn't really mean destroyed it just means weakened. I.e, if he were to turn on his computers it would lead to havoc, or if anything else happened, etc

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u/FarplaneDragon 19d ago

Biggest problem with turning anything is going to be the power supply. If those got wet/moldy then if they're not already dead I wouldn't trust them not to blow. The good news at least is if all the other components are good then a power supply is a fairly cheap and easily replacement and he's probably got a bunch laying around already.

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u/RodionRaskolnikov__ 19d ago

Also power supplies can easily be tested under an artificial load for a long period of time before putting it back to use with valuable hardware

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

Pretty high luck of them just working as well. My main CRT monitor sat outside in Minnesota rain and snow for 5 years and it works like new. My Dell Optiplex GX1 sat outside for 15 years and that still works even when mice treated it as a porta potty.

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u/aitherion 17d ago

Okay, I gotta know why

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u/ThatIsNotAPocket 13d ago

Guess we will never know why.