The purpose of these postings
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are they any good if it's still raining?
Most of them are.
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I can't imagine that a fire is possible in a downpour. Am I wrong?
If you get some degree of covering between a fire and a downpour -- a bush, a large trash bag, an emergency blanket,
https://survivaldispatch.com/wp-cont...reflection.jpg
even yourself -- you can keep a fire going *IF* you prepare properly. And that's the whole point of this discussion: what is the proper gear and preparation for starting a fire in an emergency situation.
This can be a blizzard in August
https://www.weather.gov/media/wrh/on...TAs/ta9419.pdf
your slipping and falling into a stream, sweating so much that you start to shiver at dusk (happened to me late in the day, in June in North Carolina), or just stupidity on your part
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Knowing what to do AHEAD of time helps prevent an annoyance from becoming a life threatening event. Thus, we're all sharing ideas on how to start a fire when doing so becomes (literally) a matter of life or death.