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Re:Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth i... by trillic on Monday December 26, 2022 @01:10PM (#34140151)
You don't need to heat an entire house to stay alive. Just enough so the people sitting next to the fire don't die of hypothermia
Re:Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth i... by lazyasciiart on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:33PM (#34140964)
Sure. So enough wood to keep that room warm 12 hours a day for a month suddenly became enough wood to keep that room warm 24 hours a day for two weeks. The family that happened to put in a months supply two weeks before the storm started only had enough for one week of full time fires, and that ran out days ago. (The suburban european houses with a fireplace I know are more likely to burn it a few hours each day, which makes their month of wood worth only a few days of full reliance).