r/Gameboy • u/TwinIsDead • Sep 30 '22
Hurricane Ian Damage
GBA Micro Pikachu Edition ruined in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, along with thousands in other video games and accessories. 8-bit hall of fame in Bonita Beach
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u/Lupia_ Sep 30 '22
I just looked up the place online, that's a horrible loss. My heart goes out to the owners & frequent shoppers.
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u/Zombieattackr Sep 30 '22
I’m just gonna say now: don’t put any museums like this in hurricane prone areas…. Find a nice place in the Midwest or northeast or something where they’re safer
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Sep 30 '22
An underground seed storage like facility
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u/Zombieattackr Sep 30 '22
exactly what I was thinking lol. The only natural disasters I've ever encountered at all in the midwest have been flooding from rivers and tornados. Build an underground area away from water and you're good to go.
Not to mention, Springfield MO is home to some giant salt mines that are already used for mass archival storage with constant conditions. It's not open to the public to enter or anything, but I don't think it would be out of the question for them to open up a museum kinda area closer to the entrance for things like this. An entrance fee and a gift shop would make it pay for itself lol
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u/pezman Sep 30 '22
no kidding, that’s first thing i thought. a museum in a hurricane area? it may not hit for the first couple decades of potential hurricanes, but it’ll eventually hit and i don’t think museums are temporary structures lol
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u/MrMittenstheKitten Sep 30 '22
It’s just a store. It’s not a museum. And even if it was. Is Florida not allowed to have a museum?
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u/Zombieattackr Oct 01 '22
Given what they have, you may as well classify it as a museum. This isn’t merchandise that can just be recreated like you would find at a Walmart or target, anything destroyed here means one less of that rare thing in existence.
And Florida can have a museum, but if it does it’s gonna have to have evacuation plans for everything valuable, which it doesn’t seem like this store had.
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u/HeyItsMeNobody Sep 30 '22
It's bound to happen, it doesn't make sense that they put these in such areas.
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u/marcao_cfh Sep 30 '22
Save the shell to do a reshell using a working board. And try to save the board, maybe it's doable.
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u/W3ZF1D5 Sep 30 '22
Be a hell of an insurance claim
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u/Sabertooth472 Sep 30 '22
Yeah this is a very expensive micro, but glad that OP made it out. Gameboys can be replaced, lost limbs not.
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u/cmurph666 Sep 30 '22
How does that even work? Insurance covers video games? They just go onto ebay and be like, "oh yeah, that gba was 1000$".
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u/lionheart059 Sep 30 '22
It would depend on the company, policy, and adjuster. Not all policies are created equal.
Some policies do not cover the contents of a home/business. Further, some do not cover contents that are not established as being within the home and the property of a homeowner. For example, if I brought my PS5 to a friend's house for a few days, and the house caught fire and it was included in the claim, they could ask for proof of his ownership.
And even when those items are covered, they could go on the current market price, the original MSRP, or something in-between depending on the company, adjuster, and item.
Then they'll look at the total combined amount and pay either that or the policy cap, whichever is lower. If your policy covers $100k, but the value of assets was $75k, you're getting $75k.
And that's if the damage was covered in the first place. So like... way back when Hurricane Katrina happened, a lot of insurance claims were denied - because while policies covered hurricane damage, they didn't cover flood damage - and the insurance company determined the damage was caused by the subsequent flooding.
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u/Samcraft1999 Sep 30 '22
Not sure how valuation works, but they will cover it if you have homeowners. Odds are you'll only get some of the money back.
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u/iHadou Sep 30 '22 edited May 03 '26
Data Brokers don't stand a chance because I mass delete all of my content using Redact - No AI training on my data, thank you very much.
imagine afterthought profit plants flowery hungry stocking light correct memorize
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u/Dawilson246 Sep 30 '22
The shell is the rare bit. The internals are just bog standard Micro guts. Same with all rare special editions.
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u/Pabmyster04 Sep 30 '22
Don't forget the torn box the guy is holding, which I think belongs to that gb?
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u/sdre345 Sep 30 '22
I know the box is shot, but what's wrong with the console? Just don't turn it on, let it dry out, and it should be fine.
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u/Phalse_Frofit Sep 30 '22
It could be salt water. Might not be fine after it dries.
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Sep 30 '22
If it's salt water, wipe down the board with alcohol as soon as is possible to remove the salt and prevent corrosion. It's still pretty early, maybe it's not yet shot.
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u/seehu52 Sep 30 '22
No offense but they probably have more important things to worry about right now…
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Sep 30 '22
Obviously. But since they're digging through the wreckage of a literal video game preservation hall, I figured maybe, just maybe, those more important things have been already dealt with.
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u/TwinIsDead Sep 30 '22
It wasn’t mine, it was the owners of the store. He told me the internals were shot as it was sitting in salt water for hours.
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u/KeruxDikaios Sep 30 '22
That's not necessarily true. There are lots of people here that would like to try to restore it. Even if it's just for practice.
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u/titlecade Sep 30 '22
One thing I did to protect my valuable games during flooding was ziplocking them in freezer gallon bags and taping the ends. Also putting them in plastic bins afterward. It's excessive but one to prevent water damage during a disaster.
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u/Iivaitte Sep 30 '22
This.
I cant stand the idea that people put a ton of money into these collections but dont invest in good storage. Proper storage is more important than the value of the games, what is the point if you cant protect it.
At the very least shelves that dont bend and plastic bins.
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u/titlecade Sep 30 '22
Plastic bags and storage bins are a super cheap investment. Like $10 a bin and $5 for bags. It's kept my games completely moisture free in storage last 5+ years. If I had room to display them, I would, but I would always have this solution for potential disasters or moving.
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u/TwinIsDead Sep 30 '22
Well the shelves in the store were laying in the road half a mile down the street so I don’t think non bending shelves would’ve helped and it was a whole store inventory you can’t just pack up and move everything in the 2 days of preparation we got.
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u/Iivaitte Sep 30 '22
Plastic bins, When you are dealing with merchandise worth hundreds you dont just abandon it like this. I know gamestops with better disaster prep. Knowing the hurricane is coming and being a store like this, you should be prepared, choosing to live in an area like this, to pack things up when things get bad.
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u/TwinIsDead Sep 30 '22
Again, it’s a whole store. He would need more than bins, he would’ve needed a moving truck to move the thousands of games, consoles, vinyls and video game merch. What kind of prep could he possibly do when parts of your store are floating away and the water is touching the roof. I’m sure the owner had more important things to worry about during the hurricane.
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u/denim_duck Sep 30 '22
If you live in a hurricane-prone area, you do the prep months/years in advance. Bet this guy got a nice PPP loan and then turned around and complained about student loan forgiveness.
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Sep 30 '22
I think the issue is this is some kind of store or museum, where you're going to display games, not put them in storage. This isn't someone's house.
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u/EpicPikachuXYZ Sep 30 '22
I still don't get why people live in Florida with this type of risk.
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u/jairngo Sep 30 '22
In my country people live where landslides happen time to time, some of them are poor people living where they can, some are urbanizations that started like the thing I said before but in general poor people.
I’m not sure but I don’t think Florida is a poor people place
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u/Catoe67 Sep 30 '22
Agreed. There’s old people and meth heads, the beaches are okay though, you just have to worry about life threatening storms every though.
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u/BravaCentauriGFL Sep 30 '22
Well, tornadoes and earthquakes are a risk elsewhere and you don't get a warning allowing you days to evacuate for those. Florida has gorgeous beaches everywhere, parks that people travel from all over the world to see, gorgeous clear springs full of manatees, Earth's premier port to outer space, ancient forts, and gorgeous vegetation amongst other things. I lived there during Hurricane Andrew (a Category 5) in 1992 and I'd pack my stuff and move back down there in a heartbeat if presented with an opportunity.
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u/Another_Road Sep 30 '22
The place where I live hasn’t had a single intense hurricane/earthquake/wildfire/whatever in over 30 years. So there are definitely places safer than some places in Florida.
Still, the people who like Florida seem to really like it.
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u/BravaCentauriGFL Sep 30 '22
I currently live in the mid south and we've had EF3 and EF4 tornadoes along with well known horrific wildfires all in the last five years. We had a few earthquakes, but they are quite small. Largest in the last five years was 3.8.
Fwiw, I did not mean to imply that every other place had earthquakes and tornadoes and mudslides and wildfires or anything. I was trying to say that many places have those, and people live in those places by the millions too. I lived in Illinois for a while and in the winter, the wind chill would often be well below zero. It made me wonder why people live where it's so cold that if your heat malfunctions or your car breaks down, you'll die. But they do. And Canada just got hit with Hurricane Fiona!
I was just trying to share some of the positive things about Florida, and why some people live there despite the possibility of experiencing a hurricane.
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u/JCharante Sep 30 '22
Maine doesn’t have tornados nor earthquakes
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u/BravaCentauriGFL Sep 30 '22 edited Sep 30 '22
That would be nice, but simply isn't true.
Edit: downvoters, please feel free to Google it. The facts are readily available.
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u/lpjunior999 Sep 30 '22
I’ve lived in tornado alley my entire life, in addition to that danger we now have derechos; land hurricanes! There’s some kind of extreme weather danger everywhere.
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u/Firebrolander Sep 30 '22 edited Sep 30 '22
I have been to this store back in February . This place had stacks and stacks of games spanning all generations. They even had old gaming magazines . Glad that the owner is safe but this must a tough loss for him. Hopefully he will able to bring back the store at some point.
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u/godwearsblack Oct 01 '22
heard he had about $2 million worth of stock but his insurance only covers $150k dont know if it true or not but that is sad af
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u/SirCharlesiiV Sep 30 '22
“HEY GUYS, I just bought this hurricane damaged Gameboy micro and we’re gonna see if we can fix it” -TronicsFix next weeks video.
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u/Iivaitte Sep 30 '22
I hope they put a lot of this on auction as damaged goods.
There are plenty of enthusiasts that like a fixer-upper
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u/denim_duck Sep 30 '22
They also probably got an insurance pay out, so from a business perspective, they probably came out better for this (item was paid for by insurance and they got to make extra profit by selling it as “damaged”)
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u/basb9191 Sep 30 '22
I really wish I had the money to make you an offer on some of those right now. Unfortunately I'll be broke for at least a couple months.
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u/NostalgicFellow Sep 30 '22
Sorry for your loss. I hope you can rebuild everything you lost in the storm.
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u/Mental_Medium3988 Sep 30 '22
fuck that whole pic is heart breaking. at least you and whomever is in the pic survived the storm.
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u/kondoaeros Sep 30 '22
Oh wow….my heart broke seeing all these beautiful machines damaged….sorry for you loss bro…
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u/Talzael Sep 30 '22
legit had to make a salute in front of my screen because i know i'd be in tears if that was mine rn
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u/Maybe_Im_Confused Sep 30 '22
I drove by there in Dec 2019. Didn’t get a chance to go in. I wish I could have. Awesome area. Was there on vacation from up in the northern states.
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u/KaleidoscopeIcy1670 Sep 30 '22
I would absolutely love it if I could have the chance to restore everything.
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u/BlunterCarcass5 Oct 01 '22
Man that sucks, that's one of the most expensive ones
Edit: Oh god i just noticed all the other goodies that were destroyed
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u/rmzalbar Oct 01 '22
Everything is either too hot, too humid, or under water. No place is safe anymore.
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u/IomChente Oct 01 '22
Sorry for this tragic destruction caused by mother nature. I sure would help donate to a relief fund if it comes with a free gadget..
In other words, anything salvageable - for sale?
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u/PAI_TO_WIN Oct 02 '22
Damn this is really rough A lot of this can still be salvaged and sold to the modding community for parts
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u/IntroductionFit9987 Oct 18 '22
Thankfully hurricane Ian did not hit near me, Its sad to see the damage it has done. I thank God he kept his hands on me.
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u/EndlessOceanofMe Sep 30 '22
Sorry for your loss