Why digitize important documents? Sure won’t help in an EMP attack...fact is you should have copies in a safe place (not bank safe deposit)...more like with a trusted friend or family member who lives close by. ..in case your home is destroyed.
Good advice———I have everything in a metal strong box and my kids have copies of everything.
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Just got a strange email from Carbonite telling me my data was backed up yesterday. Don’t usually get updates like that.
An EMP is really the least of your worries. (Or the greatest of your worries.)
That situation would be so, so bad that it would defeat a lot of prepping.
That said, in just about every other event, being able to produce a copy of your “paper world” would be beneficial.
For the cost of the scanner and the time spent, it can be a good recovery system in the event of even the least disruptive event such as storm, outage, or temporary evacuation.
While taking care of 9 elders at one time being able to access the important documents was a key factor to keeping stress down. I had better records than most of the physicians caring for them.