Survival series

again it has happened. six people die in midwest snow storm from exposure

it doesnt need to happen. never ever. energy share could have prevented this from happening

okay sometimes i say the wrong thing and piss people off, but this is the 21st century and people should not freeze to death in their own homes...in my home i have a supplimental form of heat. i have a nice wood stove in my garage that does nicely to keep us warm during bad weather. power
outages aside, you can stay warm .. layering and clothes help. a friend of ours showed us a neat trick for her gas log system that allowed her to cook and heat her living room and it cost her less to do it than you might imagine. a simple steel box she had made fits over the burners of her gas ports, and it gets hot fast. she cooked meals on it, boiled water in less than 5 minutes with it and it heated the room up and vented the noxious fumes right up the chimney and all during a five day period where there was no power. she said it got so hot in the room she had to turn it off for 8 hours to get the room to cool down to 78 degrees and during the worst ice storm and blizzard weve had in over 100 years here. ..good one robin...

so staying warm is a factor. ive been cold , i know what cold is, believe me. in the service they sprayed us down with cold water as we stood outside in 40 degree temps. i ve swam in the north atlantic for hours in frigid temps and have been in water so cold that specific dangling bits
try to crawl back up inside the body to get warm .. this summer past, i was packed in ice to bring
my temperature back down..rockie mountain spotted fever is a bitch... so i know what cold is. ive also had frost bite a time or two but thawed out okay, now i have to watch it