1) I need to make a list of everything that should be coming with us next time, rather than playing it by ear. Our passports got left behind, and while I can’t really imagine why we would have needed them, they are valuable documents that I would have hated to lose.
It's too late to sort out your valuable documents as the storm approaches, as the rioters set fire to your house, as the tornado bears down on you. So maybe it's better to sort everything out ahead of time, put all that you want to save in a watertight envelope/carrier, and just grab and go when the time comes.
You don't want to leave important documents behind, if there is a possibility you might lose your house. Not very comforting to think of your passport fluttering in the wind or drifting down a flooded stream, or worse, lying out in the open for anyone to take and use (identity theft!).
This was a bad storm, folks. North and west of NYC the water is still rising on rivers. One volunteer EMT in Princeton, NJ, has already lost his life attempting a swift-water rescue, and we all know that civilians have been killed along the storm track.
If you're thinking of the firefighter who attempted a water rescue, he's not dead, but he is in the ICU:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/08/firefighter_dies_during_water.htmlGlad to hear you and your family got through this in good shape. +1 for us ETS folks!
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