YouTuber LGR felt 'numbness at how powerless I was' as his one-of-a-kind retro PC collection took a direct hit from hurricane Helene, but seeing most of the trove survive now has him eager to share it with others
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Retro PC YouTuber LGR was relieved to find much of his collection intact, but told me that "more than ever that there's a need to redistribute a lotta this stuff" to ensure its preservation.
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I watched his video doing a walkthrough of the damage yesterday. It’s really sad. Not just his collection of all this stuff that he is so passionate about, but his whole house. So much damage caused by nature. I hope he’s able to get things back to semi-normal soon.

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I have no clue how he’s this quickly been able to have such a positive attitude and sense of humor about it. I’d be despondent in his shoes.

I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised; Clint always brings such enthusiasm and positivity to his videos. He’s a go-to when I’m sick. He’s like chicken noodle soup in video form.

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Probably being wealthy helps

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I recently volunteered at a community recycling drive where people could drop off old tvs and broken things. You would not believe the amount of valuable stuff people brought. An old lady had a box with an nes and about 15 games plus a PS1 and who knows what else. I asked her if she wanted to keep it as it’s valuable, she said no. I left it in her trunk.

Next time I’m going to stand a block or so away with a sign asking for old computers and stuff, it’s ridiculous how muxh valuable old tech gets thrown away.

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Yeah, and we probably should discourage storing them in areas prone to hurricanes.

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He lives in western North Carolina, definitely not an area prone to hurricanes.

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My bad, I’m not familiar with NC, so I guess I assumed Ashville was near the coast.

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So far, things seem to be prety decent where I’m at in Utah, but we do have the looming risk of “the big one” Earthquake. But to be fair, that has a pretty high chance of causing Yellowstone to erupt, which would probably kill everyone on the planet, so I guess I prefer a quicker death to starvation.

But yeah, Ashville is way in there, no wonder he was surprised.

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I believe he had a new in box Apple Newton that sustained a bunch of water damage. Not sure how rare those are.

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