The outdoor propane burner everyone reaches for has a 12,000 BTU ceiling, and most of them are well over it.
There is a number for this, and it is inches of opening per 10 feet of building width.
One bridge, one gravel road, and a trailer you have never practiced loading. That is the real rural evacuation problem.
The kit that lives in your pack is not the kit on your kitchen shelf. It is smaller, and it is chosen differently.
The scrubbing is easy. Climbing into a tank is a confined space entry, and that is where this job goes wrong.
Three of this week's six guides turned out to be about damp, not cold.
The garage feels like the obvious place. At 90 degrees it cuts your shelf life roughly in half.
Flames burn the outside and leave the middle raw. Everything good comes off the coals.
Cold does not give chickens frostbite. Damp air in a sealed coop does.
Hypothermia does not wait for winter. The CDC says it can happen above 40 degrees if you are wet.
Six inches of moving water takes an adult off their feet. Twelve takes the car. The decision has to come earlier than that.
The date printed on the outside of the kit is the first item to expire, not the last. Here is how to check the rest.
