Water damage and MOLD (pics!)

[darkninja67]

I feel for you dude. That almost brought a tear to my eye.

[saigon68]

My deepest sympathies. Now that I have resumed this wonderful obsession after a long layoff, & have really built a fine however small collection of eclectic and 90+ rated stogies, a loss such as yours would devastate me. Your loss is our gain in that we collectively should learn that cigars like people are subject to the vagaries of life. May there be many fine cigars awaiting you down the road.

[longburn]

That's terrible,it broke my heart to see that.I feel your pain. I hope some of them can at least be salvageble but frankly the mold looks pretty extensive.

[DSturg369]

Originally Posted by orca99usa

Good advice for some, but if I left my humidor like that my cigars would be powder. Our native humidity is normally between 5-15%,

Point taken. Here in my area of Georgia, even inside with the a/c running it rarely gets below 50% and routinely stays around 60% to 70%. The advice I offered was to be taken with a grain of salt.

[Shabalula]

Ouch. The OWRs make my heart hurt.

[hornitosmonster]

Wow...That sucks...

Sorry for your loss.

[Cypress]

Damn, Sorry for your loss.

[ProBe]

Sorry bro. A hard lesson to learn...

[Cigar Man Andy]

Sorry to hear about your misfortune. PM me your addy and I will send you a few sticks to tide you over.

[Doogie]

that really sucks. love the OWR

[trogdor | the burninator]

that is the most incredible self-inflicted cigar damage i've seen in a long while...maybe ever. considering the havoc wreaked, you seem to be handling it quite well, bro.

i don't quite understand how leaving a closed water bottle would've done such damage, so do you think that you over-saturated the beads? just a few spritzes should do it.

[tx_tuff]

Damn bro that totally sucks!! I guess the only good that will come of this is that I know you won't ever do it again!

You asked about some new cigars, maybe Tats, well Pete has the Cabaiguan Maduro out right now, I'm pretty sure these are a very limit release that only comes out a couple times a week. You could also try the new Cubao by 601 and the new Padilla Miami. I think they are all great smokes.

[undergroundspy713]

Some valuable lessons were learned with this mold.

[Elltrain]

Originally Posted by trogdor | the burninator

that is the most incredible self-inflicted cigar damage i've seen in a long while...maybe ever. considering the havoc wreaked, you seem to be handling it quite well, bro.

i don't quite understand how leaving a closed water bottle would've done such damage, so do you think that you over-saturated the beads? just a few spritzes should do it.

Yeah the beads were over saturated. I mean, they were soaking wet and leaking water into the bottom of the cooler.

And yeah, it's lame that I lost the sticks but it's a really good lesson for me and hopefully some others on the board

[Herf N Turf]

Dude, my heart breaks for you. Those sticks are all done. Start over.

Funny, there is no such thing as an "accidental discharge" and there is no such thing as "accidentally" destroying a cigar collection. Both, require "operator error". Lesson learned.

There are reasons why I don't "coolidor". One being, there is no wood to take up the slack for my mistakes. Plastic is absolutely unforgiving. I know I am prone to screwing up, so I am real careful about keeping my beads at half mast and everything sits in a very forgiving, cedar-lined casket.