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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,189 posts) Wed Sep 6, 2017, 11:32 AM Sep 2017

Reminder to people preparing for hurricane: Your tap water is most likely very drinkable.

If you have empty jugs, you can fill them and have all the water stored and ready for the storm. No need to despair about the empty shelves of bottled water at the grocery store. It's all right there in front of you.

Unless you live somewhere where the tap water is notoriously unreliable, you shouldn't have a problem having enough water.

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Reminder to people preparing for hurricane: Your tap water is most likely very drinkable. (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2017 OP

Yes indeed. cwydro Sep 2017 #1

5-gallon thermos with a tap at the bottom JaneQPublic Sep 2017 #2

I brew beer, but haven't in a few months. Dr Hobbitstein Sep 2017 #3

A fill the bathtub so you can flush nt Phoenix61 Sep 2017 #4

Yes. Store-bought bottled water is a luxury. Mariana Sep 2017 #5

Fill EVERYTHING that you can fill. Crock pots; dutch ovens; stew pots; bathtubs; coolers - raven mad Sep 2017 #6

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

1. Yes indeed.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Sep 6, 2017, 11:34 AM

Sep 2017

And filling up the bathtub gives a supply of water for whatever might be needed.

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)

2. 5-gallon thermos with a tap at the bottom

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Sep 6, 2017, 11:40 AM

Sep 2017

Having one of these saves me filling up dozens of pitchers and jugs. Plus, I keep a pair of ice chests, to avoid drinking luke-warm water.

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)

3. I brew beer, but haven't in a few months.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Sep 6, 2017, 11:42 AM

Sep 2017

So I have 2x 5 gal kegs, a 7 gallon keg, and a 6.5 gallon glass carboy.

Gonna fill them up. I have plenty of C02 for dispensing, and an auto-siphon if the C02 runs out.

Phoenix61

(17,009 posts)

4. A fill the bathtub so you can flush nt

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Wed Sep 6, 2017, 11:59 AM

Sep 2017

Mariana

(14,860 posts)

5. Yes. Store-bought bottled water is a luxury.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Sep 6, 2017, 12:04 PM

Sep 2017

It is not a necessity. People waste a lot of time running around trying to find bottled water in stores, too, that could better be used making real preparations.

Tap water can be put in any container that is clean and food safe. Better still, freeze some of it so you have ice (and COLD drinking water) afterward. If you lose lose electricity for any length of time you'll be very glad you made that ice.

raven mad

(4,940 posts)

6. Fill EVERYTHING that you can fill. Crock pots; dutch ovens; stew pots; bathtubs; coolers -

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Sep 6, 2017, 12:32 PM

Sep 2017

everything. Being without power is the pits after a bad hurricane. Being without water can be deadly.

Any of those "gravity shower" plastic things you use on a camping trip? Fill 'em. Got a rain barrel? It might take lots of steps, but fill it, and cover it.

Nah, hurricanes? Never..................... LOL! I still remember this stuff even being away from the eye of the storm for 25 years.

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