Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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Could the fact that nothing gets repaired be down to the use of the 'medication', that I know from times past kind of makes one less inclined to do anything. Pain management I know is a difficult thing and I know pot sometimes is the only relief, I once knew a chap who was so anti drug use who eventually succumbed to pot to control a spinal disease. But there is control and there is addiction, could it be the house holders have become addicted to the medicine they grow, with that, has the procrastination mentallity set in. They don't have the money perhaps, but do they work or are they dependant on savings or welfare, what is the situation and can that be remedied by a change in direction.
But I do understand perhaps the trap that the householders are in, self produced and administered pain management as opposed to what I understand as the high cost of US medical care, perhaps a very real indication of the failings of the US medical care system, the poor have to resort to home grown herbs if they are to have pain relief. Then perhaps the unjust denigration of the poor that use 'illegal' drugs, because they cannot afford the pharmaceuticals on offer to the more financially able. But one thing I have come to understand, those who live in ivory towers have no clue as what life is to those far beneath them.
But as to your problem in a house that lethal, if anything, deck the place out with smoke alarms and fire extinguishers and make a plan on how to get out should the worst happen at anytime. Smoke alarms should be very cheap, here they are ridiculously cheap it is hard not to have them, mine I got on a similarly low student income off ebay straight from the supplier, no more than in your currency, $24 and I have a dectector for both kinds of fire, the smoulderer and the fast flare and no smoking does not set them off, flies do sometimes and when I burn the toast, but at least I know they are working. when I sleep, because my home is one room, before I sleep, I watch for the led flash to say they are doing their job. But I test them weekly as we have had two fires in this block in the past two years and it is a timber framed building with plaster board walls I know from past construction experience, burns out in about 6 minutes once a fire gets hold.
( oh, see if you can get freebies regards the detectors and extinguishers, sometimes fire departments give them away for free as they realise such a small cost can save far more money lost to everyone, not to forget lives by having an inexpensive early warning)
I have fire extinguishers located around, dry powder in the kitchen and dry powder by the door, a multi use extinguisher for many kinds of fire, now seeing as BCF is banned, the best I know from fire fighting experience. Some extinguishers were obtained and others I bought, nothing fancy, just the type used in automobiles, the cheap disposables, but they are better than nothing at all.
I f you can't stop the possibility of fire, at least you can guard against it by having a plan and an early warning, as I here, in my place, well, its oldies, and they were the ones that had the smokies in the past two years, just pans left and forgotten on stove tops, but enough to warn me to get detectors and after the first smokie my detectors alerted me to the second and I alerted every other home to the possibility of fire before the door of the source was kicked in fire extingishers in hand and the fire brigade called.
< Message edited by Aneirin -- 11/24/2010 2:31:17 AM >
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