Please HELP! Water damage to fair part of collection!!

[1bigmig]

Water started leaking from the feet of snow piled on the roof of my apartment into the bookshelf built into the wall and soaked the bottom of about 40 - 60 of my SMS games!! Please let me know what to do, Ive started putting the most valuable inserts between books -- is this the best way to go? Id appreciate any help, thank you.

[Kejoriv]

That sucks! I would say so. Just make sure you keep them in between books until they are fully dried. If not they will rip and be wavy

[Alex Kidd]

One thing that couldn't hurt either would be to put the flattened out inserts bewteen a sheet (or two) and then iron them out... might not help if they are TOO waterlogged and wavey tho...

And ouch man, I feel your pain, especially SMS games...
I remember when the basement flooded and about 300 of my comics adopted a new "wrinkle feature" on all their bottoms...

Alex Kidd

[§ Gideon §]

My stupid advice is don't panic. Yeah, that's gay advice so ignore it.

I thought I was the only one whom had this problem. It was nearly devastating when my basement flooded, so you have my empathy.

[stargate]

store your stuff in rubbermaid containers.

[JLukas]

I used a hairdryer to "repair" some game inserts that got soaked. When they dried they seemed to be just as good as they would get if they had dried naturally.