I thought I was doing OK with my preps, but there's one area I'm not happy with now. My generator just makes life go on as normal when power goes out, but I don't have any way to deal with a loss of water without feeling a bit like I'm camping.
A water main just broke a couple miles from here and we may be without water for a while. We've got 2-3 days bottled drinking water and I shut off the valves to the water heater, so I've got 30g there I can get through its drain, but...but...but...there's nothing for showers or to flush the toilets with :o
In my kit I even have one of those WaterBOB things you put in your bathtub and fill with 100g of water that will remain clean and drinkable for a long time, but you need warning to make use of that. We also have a stream 1 mile from here where we can fill buckets for flushing. We'll be OK, but I want my whimp-preps to be complete so we are totally comfortable when the bad stuff happens.
Oh, one more thing, I'm glad it's not below freezing outside. Without water our house's forced hot water heat system doesn't work. I never gave thought to how really dependent we are on our water utility.
A water main just broke a couple miles from here and we may be without water for a while. We've got 2-3 days bottled drinking water and I shut off the valves to the water heater, so I've got 30g there I can get through its drain, but...but...but...there's nothing for showers or to flush the toilets with :o
In my kit I even have one of those WaterBOB things you put in your bathtub and fill with 100g of water that will remain clean and drinkable for a long time, but you need warning to make use of that. We also have a stream 1 mile from here where we can fill buckets for flushing. We'll be OK, but I want my whimp-preps to be complete so we are totally comfortable when the bad stuff happens.
Oh, one more thing, I'm glad it's not below freezing outside. Without water our house's forced hot water heat system doesn't work. I never gave thought to how really dependent we are on our water utility.