I am wondering what to do when this happens. A fiery meteor crashed on my Sim's property. I know enough to get my Sim away when the warning sound occurs. When the meteor crashed, there were enough brave Sims around - including mine and his butler - to put out the fires. The problem occurred when my Sim went to pick up the "debris". There was a scrap pile that I had him pick up and there were 700 pieces of scrap!!! It totally overloaded my inventory and crashed my game!! Luckily I hadn't played the game very long yesterday, so I just rebooted my computer and restarted the game. But what can I do to avoid that next time? I had no idea that there would be that much scrap in the very small pile.