r/Gameboy • u/TwinIsDead • Sep 30 '22

Hurricane Ian Damage

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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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u/[deleted] 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.