Fort McMurray burns

[Monoriu]

Subtitle files are tiny.  About 50k each.  Even 10,000 files only take 600MB.　

If that really is on your second tier of "must save in case of emergency" it seems to me that you should maintain a few physical backups and possibly some remote backup as well.

It is done.  I once worked on data centres and I am afraid that the IT people's bizarre risk mindset has already infected me.  Those guys worry about everything from power outages, earthquakes to extremely unlikely events that will never happen in a million years, like a fire burning down a building.  So I keep a USB thumb drive in the office with all the digital music files and subtitle files, and I update it like every quarter.

[Monoriu]

You have some pretty weird priorities. A wet towel is essential for immediate survival? Music and anime get a higher priority that drugs you need to take?

If I am trying to escape a situation with lots of smoke and fire, I imagine that a wet towel will help my survival chances substantially.  At least that's the advice of our own fire department.  It helps filter smoke. 

I can buy and replace ulcer drugs easily.  Just some generic drugs available at every drug store.  Not getting them means some pain, but it isn't intolerable.  Music files on the other hand represent a decade-old effort, with thousands of man hours invested into them.  It is like 55GB, so just a USB thumb drive.  The anime subtitle files are on the same device.  So it is just "remember to take that thumb drive."

Your list makes a decent amount of sense in the case of a fire in your building, but not in a more widespread disaster in which there might not be any drugstores open (or even standing).

I can bump the drugs one tier up if it bothers you guys so much

[The Brain]

No. Better not.

[The Brain]

Those guys worry about everything from power outages, earthquakes to extremely unlikely events that will never happen in a million years,

Weirdos.

[Oexmelin]

One video of the evacuation.

https://youtu.be/i13EDTnoj1w

[Monoriu]

I have seen the evacuation videos and I am very impressed.  There is good order, nobody honks, people obey police instructions etc.  Car traffic in a random Chinese city behave much more erratically on any given day.  Whereas Canadians behave in an orderly fashion even in life threatening situations. 

[The Larch]

I have seen the evacuation videos and I am very impressed.  There is good order, nobody honks, people obey police instructions etc.  Car traffic in a random Chinese city behave much more erratically on any given day.  Whereas Canadians behave in an orderly fashion even in life threatening situations.

One more reason for you to regret moving away from Canada. 

[Monoriu]

I have seen the evacuation videos and I am very impressed.  There is good order, nobody honks, people obey police instructions etc.  Car traffic in a random Chinese city behave much more erratically on any given day.  Whereas Canadians behave in an orderly fashion even in life threatening situations.

One more reason for you to regret moving away from Canada. 

There is no such regret.  Not being able to find a job is a deal breaker

[Grey Fox]

You didn't even try.

[viper37]

Subtitle files are tiny.  About 50k each.  Even 10,000 files only take 600MB.　

If that really is on your second tier of "must save in case of emergency" it seems to me that you should maintain a few physical backups and possibly some remote backup as well.

dude has got like 12tb of hard drives filled to the brim with anime.  There's no way you can get online storage at a decent price for such a huge amount of data.

[viper37]

I have seen the evacuation videos and I am very impressed.  There is good order, nobody honks, people obey police instructions etc.  Car traffic in a random Chinese city behave much more erratically on any given day.  Whereas Canadians behave in an orderly fashion even in life threatening situations. 

British tradition, advancing under fire, executing orderly retreats, etc, etc.

[Caliga]

It is done.  I once worked on data centres and I am afraid that the IT people's bizarre risk mindset has already infected me.  Those guys worry about everything from power outages, earthquakes to extremely unlikely events that will never happen in a million years, like a fire burning down a building.  So I keep a USB thumb drive in the office with all the digital music files and subtitle files, and I update it like every quarter.

Yeah.  We actually wasted a bunch of time on a nuclear strike contingency plan a few years ago.

Well, to be fair, we just called it that, but it was to deal with any generic disaster in which our Chicago and Louisville offices were simultaneously totally destroyed.

[Valmy]

I have seen the evacuation videos and I am very impressed.  There is good order, nobody honks, people obey police instructions etc.  Car traffic in a random Chinese city behave much more erratically on any given day.  Whereas Canadians behave in an orderly fashion even in life threatening situations. 

British tradition, advancing under fire, executing orderly retreats, etc, etc.

It is basically how the beach at Dunquerque went. 'Pip pip line up chaps, wait your turn, mind the Jerry bombs, tip-tip-erary and all that'

[Admiral Yi]

Birkenhead drill. 

[citizen k]

The Ft. McMurray area looks pretty ethnically diverse. Is that due to oil sands industry?