Re: SB: Steens on the run

["Scott Willing" <willing@mb.sympatico.ca>]

Glancing around our wooded retreat here, as prairie droughts get worse 
year after year, I've considered this as well.

Frankly I can think of nothing better than a hole in the ground for the 
protection of meltables. A well-protected root cellar, something like that.

-=s

On 30 Apr 2002 at 14:35, Robert W. Tom wrote:

> 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
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