Posts Tagged ‘hurricane’

Hurricane Preparedness – Scanning and Saving Important Documents – Part 3

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

If you’ve been following along with our series on Scanning and Saving Important Documents you’re ready for our third article (if not, jump to related articles at the bottom of this post).  In our last article, we covered the scanning and related software, leaving you with some image files and questions about what to do next.  Today, we’ll outline file naming, folder structures and storage.

As always, we have a couple of things to remind you about before jump into our project.  First, keep your document and files protected.  Second, this is your project.  Our articles are suggestions on how to handle this type of project, but you should definitely structure and organize your document scanning in a way that keeps things simple for you.  After all, if a project like this became too complicated or confusing, who would actually finish it?

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FollowFriday – Friday July 02, 2010 – HURRICANE TRACKING

Friday, July 2nd, 2010
FollowFriday : On any given Friday, thousands upon thousands (maybe even millions) of Twitter users enter the hashtag #FollowFriday (or #FF), followed by one or more “mentions.” The idea is for users to share the names of other “interesting people” that they follow and think you should too. These recommendations serve as positive comment cards for the digitally inclined.


JumpstartMyPC.com has decided to bring FollowFriday to our blog. Read on and, if you are so inclined, add these “interesting people” to your own list.

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Hurricane Preparedness – Scanning and Saving Important Documents – Part 2

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

In our last article (Hurricane Preparedness – Scanning and Saving Important Documents), we helped you you put together a list of your important documents and, with any luck, you have already located them.  Our next steps will be to scan these documents and save the files in a storage/filing method that meets your needs.  There are quite a few variables at this point (from hardware to learning curve) but the time and effort you put into this project will pay off in the event of a natural disaster, like a hurricane.

Before We Get Started: Once more, I would like to warn everyone that your personal documents should be protected at all costs.  This applies to the originals and the scanned images from here on out.  Identity theft is very real and very possible with the proper information.

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Hurricane Preparedness – Scanning and Saving Important Documents

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Hurricane Alex was upgraded to the season’s first hurricane as of 10 pm CDT Tuesday, June 29th, but it may be only the beginning.  Many weather experts are forming comparisons between the 2010 hurricane season and the 2005 season (which produced 28 named storms, including Hurricane Katrina) and Joe Bastardi (Chief Hurricane Meteorologist for AccuWeather.com) predicted that 18 to 21 named storms will occur in the 2010 season, four of which are expected to occur during July.  What does this mean for you and I?  How do we prepare?  What do we prepare?

For any hurricane season, there are a few basics to concern yourself with.  You should have a safe place to weather the storm and enough food and water to last for at least a few weeks.  Check for flashlights, batteries and other essentials.  But then what?  It seems like we always forget something important when rushed into situations like this.  Imagine the post-storm recovery.  You might have evacuated the area or worse, your home might have been destroyed by flooding or tornadoes.  What then?  Were you prepared to start over or deal with the enormous task of insurance claims and a mountain of paperwork?  Wait, the paperwork!!!!!  That’s where today’s article comes in.

Before it’s too late, before you say “I wish I had thought of that,” before you have time to forget about it…. you need to locate and backup your important documents.

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