Bugging OUT: How, When, Where and WHY?

[akennedy73]

Regarding Kingsford charcoal, akennedy is right, but you could probably burn it in an enclosed boxstove that has a chimney to the outside. However, if you're going to do that, why not just buy compressed-wood fuel pellets? Anybody have experience with those?

For everyone considering heating options during a time of crisis, please don't use charcoal. Read the label. Burning charcoal emits carbon monoxide and it will kill you if you don't have proper ventilation. Don't burn charcoal indoors for heat or cooking.

In a time of crisis, I recommend doing what the Chukchi do to keep warm. They live in homes made of animal hides in Siberia. And they stay perfectly warm at night. Their technique is heating a "tent-inside-a-tent" using nothing more than a candle. Inside their animal-skin home, they make a smaller interior chamber of animal skins. And they heat it with a candle.

In a modern suburban home this would involve hanging blankets in a room to make a smaller room inside of which you light a candle (safely secured to prevent fires). And you'll spend a nice warm and cozy night sleeping.

If instead you try to heat your entire home all day long and all night long, well, you just might run out of fuel long before the crisis is over.

 

[Coldwood]

Do the people in eastern PA and the Shenandoah Valley know about this? Are they expected to take strangers into their homes? Or put them up in schools and gymnasiums? Does this sound like a mixup for trouble?

 

[Fraser]

Coldwood - according to The Post, The New York Times and NYC TV stations, Bloomie and his crew are working closely with the mayors of northeastern PA towns. (As an aside, many people in NE PA commute to work in NYC every day.)

I happened to be in Washington DC in late 2003 (2004?) when the TV station there mentioned moving city residents to locations west of DC, along I-81 west of the mountain ridge. They said that pamphlets were being printed up for distribution to residents. I doubt much has progressed since then.