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- From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
- Subject: Re: Emergency light and heat
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.214140.10336@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <C0pLsw.6C9@apollo.hp.com> <C0r5Ix.vI@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:41:40 GMT
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- In article <C0r5Ix.vI@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng) writes:
-
- >Horror story 2:
- >After snow storm, power failed. An old man turned on his gas
- >stove to warm the house. It consumed all oxygen in the house
- >and he died of suffocation upstairs in bed.
-
- Please go and verify this- I don't buy it. "Consumed all the oxygen in the
- house"? Did he live in a perfectly sealed home? He must have, as a gas stove
- running all night WILL NOT "use all the oxygen". We used to live in a housing
- project where the heat was never warm enough, and my mother used to run the
- gas stove all night to keep the place warm. I mean, it takes like 5 hours to
- cook a turkey.
-
- I bet the guy lost the flame and died from the natural gas.
-
- -Kenny
-
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