I wanted to remind everyone of the lesson learned during Katrina. Having copies of your records is a good idea, so long as you’re at home. But if you have to hit the road in a very big hurry, you may not bring the right thing with you.

You may, as my cousin did, see the insurance policy on the hall table as you’re climbing up to the attic because the water’s rising.

Here are a couple of solutions: Store your info on a disc and send it to your best friend who lives in another city. Or store it in an online vault. Or put it on a flash drive.

Do you have a favorite site for storing your financial data? I’d like to hear about it.

One free thing I’ve found goes much farther than merely finance. T. Rowe Price offers the Family Records Organizer. You can get it by mail, if you go to www.TrowePrice.com and look under estate planning.

You can also download it here.