SB: Steens on the run

["Robert W. Tom" <archilogic@yahoo.ca>]

4/29/02 10:07:31 PM, Athena and Bill Steen <absteen@dakotacom.net> wrote:

>Well let's see. I've got constant air traffic overhead dumping slurry on a
>forest fire somewhere about 4 miles up creek.  That being the case we are
>packing up the CDs, computers, slides, impt documents and of course the
>[ahem] and evacuating the old homestead <snip>

Hopefully Athena, Beel, Oso, Benito, Kalin and the Shanghai shepherd will 
have survived this ordeal without incident but it did get me thinking about
how poorly I would be prepared for a catastrophic fire.

As is the case with most people who have been planted on this Earth for long 
enough to grow tendrils, there are many items which have been accumulated 
over the years which one would consider to be priceless.

One also recalls the story in TSBH of the fire which obliterated everything in 
its path except a plastered SB construction (a garden bench ?).

These two items got me thinking about a Green "fire safe room" in which one 
could store items that one couldn't/wouldn't carry if one had to run from an 
impending catastrophe like a forest fire but really wouldn't want to lose either.

Straw bales might be good for thermal insulation to prevent the contents of the 
room from melting (a feat which would require major thicknesses of massive 
materials like steel or concrete) and a thick plaster coating (gypsum perhaps? 
which releases molecularly-bound water when exposed to fire) might keep the 
flames away from the straw. It would pretty much have to be a vaulted structure.

Of course, this is all mere speculation, the primary intent of this posting being 
to let SBLand know about the events occurring down Canelo way.

--- * ---
Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
<ArchiLogic@yahoochaff.ca>
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