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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2852610, member: 75525&quot;]My thoughts and prayers go to all CTers who faced storms. My family was fortunate, but several close friends were not as lucky. We had half a dozen from my coin club who took on water. Several other coin collectors and dealers in the area are dealing with water. I have a few pics of the recovery process.</p><p>Our church was spared water problems, but we did loose a tree... and a wood pecker lost a home.</p><p>[ATTACH]677253[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]677254[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]677255[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A friend who is a coin dealer lives on the downstream side of the Barker Cyprus reservoir. Some of you may have heard of this one. They did not flood due to direct rain, but to water released from the flood control dam. Their flooding started after much of the rain fell and just got back in their homes. The pics below are part of the coin recovery process. How do you clean coins that have been under run-off water for a week. The process is a bit like cleaning ancient coins. </p><ul> <li>remove paper covers</li> <li>separate the sheep from the goats or maybe the salvageable from the cash value only items</li> <li>crack em out of their plastic holders (at least for US mint products).. I wore my special shirt for this (thanks to TIF!)</li> <li>for silver, paper money, clad coins and nickels; soak them in distilled water or light alcohol, we used isopropyl</li> <li>blot them dry with a towel and let them air dry a bit</li> <li>repackage them</li> <li>bronze coins and steel cents that had some value were rinsed with water or alcohol and them placed in olive oil. They are in a hold pattern for now.</li> <li>The only ancient, an LRB, was no worse for the wear in the coin junk box.</li> </ul><p>Some pics of this process are below.</p><p>[ATTACH]677265[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]677268[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]677266[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]677267[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]677269[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>At the end of the day a stop at the House of Pies was my reward.</p><p>[ATTACH]677270[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]677271[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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