It’s amazing that a wet document drying out is like watching stew come to a boil. It takes for ever.

Old buildings usually have a wet basement. Most wet basements of any infrastructures are due to floods and sewer backups. But most causes of such incidents are not noticeable and mostly results to detectable water on floors and walls.

Whether one lives in an otherwise impregnable fortress or simply somewhere along the coast of a ravaging river system, when Mother Nature does strike, storms do strike without warning and often with devastating consequences.

In such cases, your books and important documents might get damaged because it is made up of paper which is very fragile......