Everyone Laughed at Her "Cave" Under Her Cabin — Then Her Firewood Stayed Dry All Winter скачать в хорошем качестве

Everyone Laughed at Her "Cave" Under Her Cabin — Then Her Firewood Stayed Dry All Winter

In 1888, fourteen-year-old Nora Lindqvist was shipped to Washington Territory with eleven dollars and directions to a dead man's cabin. Grays Harbor received 110 inches of rain per year. Firewood left outside never dried. She needed six cords of seasoned wood to survive winter. She had none. Everyone told her the same thing: wood dries outside, in sun and wind. But there was no sun. Only endless rain. So Nora grabbed a mattock and started digging into the hillside behind her cabin. She built a cellar with ventilation pipes, stacked green alder on raised platforms, and let the heat from her stove sink through the floorboards. The warm, dry air did what months of Pacific Northwest weather couldn't. When January brought the coldest temperatures in twenty years, her neighbors burned wet wood and watched their chimneys catch fire. Nora burned dry wood from her underground stores—and lived.