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2016-03-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

This Biannual in Emergency Preparedness, Part 2

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Posted by swksvolFF 2016-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 For small kids/pets, they make harness/bag systems that you can use to lower them to the ground. The most important factor in this is that you are physically able to lower them all the way, not halfway and then drop them. They are especially useful in multistory apartment buildings but my wife and I are considering getting one for our two story house for the munchkin.

I hadn't thought much about breaking the window, since there's alot of furniture I could simply break to use but the wife would have trouble with that. Given I have 4 hammers, moving one upstairs to the munchkins room isn't a bad idea. We also plan on having a fire extinquisher in each bedroom.

Lots of good useful information in these discussions.

Posted by Silentbrick 2016-03-20 07:37|| 2016-03-20 07:37|| Front Page Top

#2 A simple change in the weather - an otherwise dry climate suddenly receiving a lot of moisture and causing the sill to swell, or an ice storm - may make a window difficult to open.

Or, like I had to, on account of being in scorpion and black widow territory, in addition to brown recluses, an old window had to be sealed.

If I were a guest in my house, had to get out, and did not know that window is sealed, I have at least practiced 'what could I use?' Or at a hotel, office, restaurant, so forth.

Personally I think a hammer is a great choice. Someone without much strength can strike with the claw and break a window out, and the armpits, if you will, and other surfaces can be used to clear shards from the sill. Just want to make sure that we are off to the side and striking as high and to the edge as possible so chunks of glass are not falling on our hands/wrists/forearms/face.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-03-20 12:40|| 2016-03-20 12:40|| Front Page Top

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