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  • 2017-09-08 (xsd:date)
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  • During a Hurricane, Should You Store Important Items in Your Dishwasher? (en)
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  • On 6 September 2017, as Hurricane Irma swept across the Caribbean and towards southern Florida, a Facebook user posted the advice that a dishwasher is an ideal spot to hide valuables during a hurricane: The post had racked up over a million shares within a few days, and its advice even wound up on several news roundups of hurricane hacks: The post did not cite any manufacturer, disaster expert, or government agency as vetting the proffered advice, and the reasoning provided (it's secured to cabinets) sounded more like observation than credible information. And the owner of an appliance repair shop told the Tampa Bay Times in September 2017 that storing valuables in the dishwasher during a flood was a bad idea: And in August 2006, New Orleans' Times-Picayune carried a reader-submitted cautionary tale about storing important items in dishwashers during flooding: When similar advice appeared on the reddit forum r/LifeProTips, one user responded with another personal anecdote about having lost valuables by trusting them to this approach: By contrast, we were unable to locate any stories of people successfully protecting their belongings from flood by storing them in a dishwasher. (en)
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