Because that's probably the warmest part of the building, so you could survive there longer. There are little to no windows for heat to escape through (Heat escapes through closed windows too), so as long as you kept the doors all shut and blocked the cracks in them with some kind of heat resistant fabric, you could survive for a pretty long time.EcoEclipse said:I see. Why am I confined to the basement of said building?speidel28 said:an extremly cold blizzard, if it hasnt blocked the entranced, you would probably freeze quickly going out thereEcoEclipse said:What kind of storm are we talking about? This is imperative to my answer.