[LINK] home emergencies

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 10:17 +1100, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> But the problem with 'early' is that it is relative to the 
> circumstances and the individual's self-determined capabilities which 
> may not be accurate if they don't have the full story. Early is an 
> abstract concept. It has different meaning to different people. Talk 
> about not scaling! 'Early' or 'late' is the ultimate in not scaling.

That's a very good point.

The problem is that "early enough" is basically "too early", because
once you *know* the fire is going to hit you, it's too late to duck.

This means that you have to leave when it *threatens*, and that means a
good probability of reacting to "false alarms". So people leave it too
late - because they want to be "sure".

Regards, K.

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