{"id":1223,"date":"2019-07-29T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2019-07-26T19:51:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T19:51:54","slug":"what-we-can-learn-from-the-1986-chicago-historical-society-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/2019\/07\/29\/what-we-can-learn-from-the-1986-chicago-historical-society-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"What we can learn from the 1986 Chicago Historical Society flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 1988, Carole Turchan, the paper conservator of the Chicago Historical Society, published a recap of a tremendous flooding incident that affected her institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cool.conservation-us.org\/coolaic\/sg\/bpg\/annual\/v07\/bp07-10c.jpg?w=712&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption> View toward the museum. Burst water main.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out her article,<a href=\"https:\/\/cool.conservation-us.org\/coolaic\/sg\/bpg\/annual\/v07\/bp07-10.html\"> The Chicago Historical Society Flood: Recovery Analysis Two Years Later <\/a>for details about the recovery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My takeaways from the article: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Construction or renovation projects can dramatically increase your risk to catastrophic events.<\/li><li>Importance of stabilization\/freezing to prevent mold and facilitate easier recovery, and the importance of vendors of these services.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\nWhat a story! Glad no one was hurt, and that the damage wasn&#8217;t worse.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1988, Carole Turchan, the paper conservator of the Chicago Historical Society, published a recap of a tremendous flooding incident that affected her institution. Check out her article, The Chicago Historical Society Flood: Recovery Analysis Two Years Later for details about the recovery. My takeaways from the article: Construction or renovation projects can dramatically increase &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/2019\/07\/29\/what-we-can-learn-from-the-1986-chicago-historical-society-flooding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What we can learn from the 1986 Chicago Historical Society flooding<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}