[bloodrayne]

Originally Posted by Despare

Whatever I can throw out the window in time. I would probably throw something large through my picture window and then start tossing stuff out of it as far away from the house as possible.

Originally Posted by _____V_____

Actually, it helps immensely to have a calm mind when facing such a sort of emergency.

We can make plans, but if it really happens, we have no idea what we might do, and it can be difficult for some people to think rationally during an emergency


Many years ago, my neighbor across the street had woken up in the middle of the night to a loud 'POP'...It was Christmas time, snowing, and he had a kerosene heater in the living room...His Christmas tree was in front of his window, the heater was about 4 feet from the window...And he entered the livingroom to find that his kerosene heater had exploded on the inside...He didn't know that his teenaged son had accidentally put gasoline in it instead of kerosene

His first reaction was to grab the handle of the heater (burning his hand), and drag it through the livingroom and kitchen to throw it out the side door...Which leaked a trail of gasoline all through the house, which quickly caught the carpet on fire

He lost everything because he didn't want to break the front window...He could have picked up the heater and thrown it through the window to save his house...But, it just didn't occur to him at the time...