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neat pun but the water will just run off the roof like rain? |
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Won't you be soooo popular when the only house in the neighborhood which isn't burnt down is yours? |
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Baked, see links. Admittedly, this is a great idea and is not widely known or implemented. |
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"If I were a rich man..." |
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When we last discussed forest fires (this time last year, I guess), I recall seeing an article about some desperate soul who stood on his roof with a garden hose while the rest of his neighborhood burned down around him (thereby saving his own house). I guess he was real lucky the water mains stayed going.. |
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If you stored rainwater in a rooftop tank (by slowly pumping it up from the catch cistern via a windmill), you could convert the tank into a sprinkler in an emergency by having small circumferential holes in the tank sides. |
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