So... pretend for a few minutes how your household would handle lack of access to safe drinking water for, say, a week. If the fecal bacteria story above doesn't do it for you pretend we had an unexpected hard freeze[0] and your home's water pipes burst from freezing; your water is cut off at the water meter until the overworked plumber can get there.
Here are some resources that may help:
- COR: Know What 2 Do brochure (PDF, personalized from the site below)
- North Texas Emergency Preparedness: www.KnoWhat2Do.com
- FEMA: prepping water
- FEMA: managing your existing water
- EPA: emergency disinfection of drinking water
- Cornell: good collection of water storage and disinfection resources
bloggermouse,
who has more questions than answers
[0] Impossible? How about today's sudden snowfall? How many weathercasters called that one for this morning?
2 comments:
Easy answer for me is go to the in-law's, but that's cheating.
I just discovered this site on Monday:
http://www.survivalblog.com/archives.html
It's more of a "What would you do if civilization ended" oriented site, but there are nuggets of gold mixed in with the hats of tinfoil.
Yeah, along those lines I can recommend Jack Spirko's podcast:
http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/
and he gets bonus points for being local (Arlington, I think).
I find his speaking voice and delivery annoying but his information is usually good and there is minimal tinfoil.
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