Poker Chip Inferno Run (7 Viewers)

[Tonysquander]

First, I would like to say that I hope any and all of our chippers and/or their families who are being impacted by the California wildfires are safe and sound. Lives are most important, possessions can largely be replaced.

It did get me thinking though. A fire or other disaster is imminent. You can only save ONE of your sets (the others would be gone forever). Which one do you grab on the way out the door? No limits on amount of chips in the set, but you can only grab one set.

As much as I would like to say it would be my customs, I think I am grabbing my CDI98 set. Reasons tilting in its favor are the time I spent putting it together, value, really loving the set and the chips in it, leaded, and set size.

What do you grab and why?

 

[MeridianFC]

Custom BCCs.

 

[MC_CPA]

If there was a fire in my home, I'd grab the following in the order

spouse (if i had one)
Tigers already in the nanuk case (easy to roll)
Tigers in the bird cage (easy to grab)
Watch collection (just a box)
Dog (if i have one)
Clothes
Collectible trading cards
Passport/nexus/credit cards

Unfortunatly would have to leave the electronics.

On a related note sell me some of your Tigers to mitigate this risk, I'll keep them safe lol

 

[allforcharity]

I would also save my CDI98s, because they are the vast majority of my collection and also collectively worth the most.

 

[Phoe9x]

I’m grabbing my dogs first, then my custom CPC doghouse set . Everything else can be covered by insurance, provided the insurance companies don’t cancel my fire protection before one of the largest wildfires in a while.

 

[Kam]

One of our friends lost everything in the 2017 fires north of San Fran. Got woken up by the fire marshal blaring horns outside their house at 3am, house was starting to fill with smoke (no house alarms went off). They grabbed kids, dog and frantically tried to find passport / credit cards etc and left in a panic - their only direction was to drive south towards San Francisco. They got back 3 days later and everything was ash. Washing machine was a puddle of metal. Their biggest regret were family photo albums that were gone, everything else could be replaced.

Those fires move really fast and can spread far with embers in the dry wind. Nothing like that recently in San Diego near homes, but I’ve driven past lots of brush fires, at least a few times a year I see helicopters/planes dumping retardants down here. Have a healthy respect for it especially since we’ve had years of on/off drought.

We’ve got GO bags ready with all the important docs /some supplies etc.

But now you’ve got me thinking my priorities aren’t straight. Need to move my IG cash set into an apache case beside the GO bag… the nexgens can burn.