Hello, August Abolins.
On 11/17/20 9:25 PM you wrote:
AA> Hi Charles! 16 Nov 20 15:45, you wrote to me:
CP>> The bad part it we have well water, not city water, so power
CP>> outages also knock out the well pumps.
AA> Lack of access to the usual water source can be a major problem
AA> for many, even in my area where many homes feature their own
AA> wells.
If it were my own well, I'd have a manual backup for the pump if nothing else,
but it's a community well, serving about 30 homes.
AA> But, I have a stash of the small bottled kind and keep a few large
AA> jugs of water around. It's a relief to have some spare water even
AA> just for flushing. Yesterday I could get my water in town at the
AA> shop where the town water is gravity-fed from a nearby lake to a
AA> water tower.
I do as well. About 12 5 gallon jugs, and several gallon jugs and smaller for
keeping frozen for ice should it be needed to keep food cold.
CP>> In 2008, Hurricane Ike knocked out the power around Houston for a
CP>> while. My parents were lucky, only a few hours. Where I live now
CP>> was a few days. I lived about 1.5 miles from where I do now, and
CP>> was without power or water for 2 weeks.
AA> The winds yesterday could have practically been called a
AA> hurricane. But guess anything under 100mph is just a "Storm With
AA> No Name".
I think the biggest take away people got from our situation was how outdated
our utility infrastructure was. And all these years later, little has changed.
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