>I just had to tell you guys this one. I live in Illinois and we had
>some pretty intense thunderstorms here a few weeks ago. It was
>raining non-stop for like 2 days. Well I keep my TurboDuo system and
>all the games in storage in the basement. Our basement floods about
>2-5 inches at the most, but I keep the TurboDuo and everything
>stored
>up high on a table. Well I went down the first morning after the
>rain and there was about 2 feet of water down there! I looked for my
>TurboDuo system and games and didn't see them on the table where I
>last put them. To my horror the underbed box I store them in was
>sitting on the seat of a Lazy boy recliner UNDER WATER!! I
>yelled "GOD DAMMIT!!" grabbed the box and took the water filled
>container upstairs. I emptied out the box on the lawn. Held the
>TurboDuo unit upside down and water poured out of it. All the labels
>on CD cases and manuals were ruined. I individually hand dried each
>of the CD-ROMs and HuCards. I took apart the Duo and let it dry in
>the sun. I let everything dry for a couple of weeks.
>Well I just plugged in the TurboDuo and Military Madness and... IT
>WORKS!! It still works! I can't believe it. Then I popped in my
>Lords of Thunder CD and that worked too. Unbelievable!
>The worst part of it was seeing my mint condition manuals destroyed.
>MINT Dracula-X manual turned to pulp. :(
>But at least everything still works!
YIKES! I can't even imagine what I would do if I found all of my
precious "Turboware" underwater! I think I would be suicidal! Glad to
hear the good news, and it's a remarkable story.
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