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To: gleeaikin

I believe rural dwellers have advantage of wood supplied fires & animals with hay for insulation. I also saw where Kiev & other cities have developed group meeting halls to obtain water, warmth & charging stations of batteries for WIFI.
I know this Ukrainians are actively helping Ukrainians.


59 posted on 11/20/2022 7:56:50 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion, )
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Speaking of hay for insulation, if Ukraine still makes the older rectangular straw bales instead of the big round ones mostly made in the US now, here is good information. Hay or straw bales homes were often built for the first winter by homesteaders in the US mid west prairie country. They were so warm in winter people often continued to live in them and some were even in use after 100 years. Hay is cattle food, straw is stems left after harvest of things like wheat, and is not edible.

Here is the Google page for “Straw Bale Homes in Wisconsin”. Google also had pages for other states, but Wisconsin was the coldest. There were a number of useful articles:

https://www.google.com/search?q=straw+bale+homes+in+wisconsin&rlz=1CAJCUZ_enUS847&oq=Straw+bale+homes&aqs=chrome.5.0i512l10.26135j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

This link is detailed description of a family building a legal financed straw bale home. Next I will try to find a simpler more basic emergency shelter.
doorcountypulse.com/a-house-of-straw/ (illustrated)

Basic emergency straw bale shelter, Google links:
https://www.google.com/search?q=basic+emergency+straw+bale+shelter&rlz=1CAJCUZ_enUS847&oq=basic+emergency+straw+bale+shelter&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160.16689j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Basic emergency shelter: (Uses 65 to 72 standard bales)
https://strawbaleplans.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/straw-bale-emergency-shelter/?unapproved=3619&moderation-hash=c564b63addaa441199f1c2a81f9b52c4#comment-3619

Another basic shelter site:
https://naturalbuildingblog.com/emergency-straw-bale-shelter-links/?unapproved=1578735&moderation-hash=cbac22322365116a1869e83b958967df#comment-1578735


67 posted on 11/20/2022 8:50:02 PM PST by gleeaikin (Question authority!)
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