Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth in wake of storm
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Re: Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth in wake of storm
#2Seems like it would be the last thing I’d burn for warmth…
Re: Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth in wake of storm
#3Seems like it would be the last thing I’d burn for warmth…
There's only so many you can put on at once, and they're one of the cheaper things people own these days.
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#5Seems like it would be the last thing I’d burn for warmth…
Yeah, i had to burn furniture once in a slightly similar freeze situation.
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#7The real story here seems to me to be not that people burned their clothes to stay warm but that people in a place with fragile connections to the outside world had so little in the way of supplies to weather a relatively short period without food deliveries. I'm not blaming them, I assume that many of the affected people don't have the resources to keep a buffer stock.
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There's only so many you can put on at once, and they're one of the cheaper things people own these days.
You can still use them for insulation.. I doubt polyester or cotton would burn very long.
Don’t need them to burn for very long, cotton should have roughly the same energy density as wood by weight. Burning bags of cold clothes that don’t fit isn’t that bad of an idea.
Negative teens is brutal, even a well insulated house loses a lot of heat if you want it comfortable but there’s a big range between uncomfortable and dead. -15f to 30f is the same difference as 30f and 75f.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's only so many you can put on at once, and they're one of the cheaper things people own these days.
But they would burn terribly, clog your chimney, and are more effective when worn.
It just seems to me that they would be more effective if worn. Even if they don't fit, cut them up and stitch up gloves and cover-ups.