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Insurance/Recovery Tip:

Pricing Historical Items

When you're working on your home inventory, it's hard enough to price all of the everyday mundane items, but what about those special items such as antiques or collectibles. Remember there is always someone out there who can price your items, it's just a matter of finding them. Here is one company who specializes in Historical Americana items. They give free informal appraisals or you can pay a fee for a formal one.

http://www.railsplitter.com

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Disaster Recovery News:                   

The Long Road to Rebuilding
Thursday, December 11, 2008

No matter which cliché you pick to describe the realities currently staring down property owners devastated by last month’s Tea Fire, the bottom line remains the same: There is work to be done. With more than 200 incinerated houses needing to be rebuilt — not to mention the countless other legal and illegal outbuildings — the winding road to recovery runs straight through the Planning and Development offices of both the city and the county of Santa Barbara. And while shot-callers from both camps have promised to expedite and ease for Tea Fire victims the usually frustration-filled permitting process, the fact is that not everyone will be allowed to rebuild the way they want — and in some cases, they won’t be able to rebuild at all.

http://www.independent.com/news/2008/dec/11/tea-fire-victims-get-help-and-little-heartbreak-ci/

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Insurance Industry News:                  

Catastrophe figures for 2008 confirm that climate agreement is urgently needed
29 December 2008

Driven by high losses from weather-related natural catastrophes, 2008 was – on the basis of figures adjusted for inflation – the third most expensive year on record, exceeded only by the hurricane year of 2005 and by 1995, the year of the Kobe earthquake.

http://www.munichre.com/en/press/press_releases/2008/2008_12_29_press_release.aspx

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Disaster Prepared:

Lions Club in Wrightwood buys ice-rescue equipment for firefighters
01/11/2009

When a fire threatens a town, or if a person needs medical help, or if a scared cat needs to be rescued from a tree, a community can always rely on firefighters.

Members of the Timberline Lions Club in Wrightwood recently decided to return the favor and purchased $5,000 worth of ice-rescue equipment for the town's Fire Station 101.

http://www.sbsun.com/sanbernardino/ci_11427522

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Disaster News:

Study finds troubling pattern of Southern California quakes
January 24, 2009

Large earthquakes have rumbled along a southern section of the San Andreas fault more frequently than previously believed, suggesting that Southern California could be overdue for a strong temblor on the notorious fault line, a new study has found.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fault-quakes24-2009jan24,0,7734479.story

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Quote of the Week:                   

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

    -John D. Rockefeller

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