Before Disaster Strikes: Protect Your Memories and Home

A close friend recently lost everything in a house fire — not just furniture and walls, but decades of photographs, keepsakes, and the small things that told their family’s story. Everyone made it out safely, and that’s what matters most. But it got me thinking about how much heartache a little preparation now could spare any of us later, whether the threat is fire, flood, tornado, earthquake, or theft.