Offsite-Use water

[Joseph Kubik]

The toilet is bad, the ceramic cracks in a fire most of the time.
A REALLY hot fire is hard to protect against. However, most
residential fires I've seen were only really hot in the small area
where the fire started and the rest of the building was quickly
extinguished.

If you are truly paranoid, a stainless steel vacuum flask would work
well, especially if it were in an open metal drum full of water (it
needs to be able to evaporate to provide any real cooling).

-Joseph-

On Apr 12, 2005 9:15 AM, teddymills <teddymills-VFlxZYho3OA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> Get a waterproof box or container of some kind....and drop it into your
> toilet tank.(the large one :)
> As long as your container is waterproof, your data would be safe. from
> almost any fire.
> Water would also dissipate the heat.
> Plus you would save on your water bill, and not waste so much water.
> 
> If that doesnt work, go industrial. find a large metal container, as
> large as needed,
> (45 gallon oil drum if need be, or flatter rectangular shaped)  and  use
> that.
> 
> Just thought that one up!
> 
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 01:05:51AM -0400, John Vetterli wrote
> >
> >
> >>Just wondering: would keeping CDs and DVDs in a fireproof strongbox
> >>keep your data safe and readable if there was a major fire?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >  There are a couple of problems with that...
> >
> >  1) A real fire would melt the contents of the strongbox.
> >
> >  2) Assuming it survives, I don't expect the police/fire-dept to allow
> >     me to meander through the burned-out hulk of the building.  Did I
> >     mention that I'm on the 5th floor?
> >
> >
> >
> 
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