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Re:Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth i... by jkepler on Monday December 26, 2022 @01:22PM (#34140269)
Could they dig or melt a tunnel to the wood? If the snow were melted and then refroze as ice at the bottom of the tunnel, one could then slid the wood back to the tunnel entrance...

Hardship breeds creativity. Necessity is the mother of invention (except under excessive government intervention, which may be at the root of reservation problems).

Maybe if we could calculate the present day market value of all the land the US government stole from the Native Americans (I've heard we broke nearly every treaty we signed with the Native Americans... to our shame), that could be structural payments to encourage entrepreneurial activity on the reservation

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Re:Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth i... by lazyasciiart on Monday December 26, 2022 @01:51PM (#34140555)
This idea sounds like literal murder.
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Re:Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth i... by zdragnar on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:01PM (#34140642)
The odds of the snow caving in and being buried alive are far greater than the risks of waiting to get plowed out.
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Re:Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth i... by klyrs on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:15PM (#34141970)
How much experience do you have in -30F with meters of accumulated snow? How much experience do you have digging tunnels? Because your comment reads like a literal Loony Toons episode, and I've never experienced below -10F or more than a meter of snow.
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Re:Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth i... by postalrat on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:24PM (#34142041)
Sounds like bad idea. But assuming you have no choice and need to leave your house you still need to put the snow somewhere that you are digging out. Are you going to fill up your house with it?
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