Hurricane Irene

Never could understand bottled water

cause I have drinking water that come right out of the tap!

Never could understand bottled water

Not for day to day use, but very handy when a disaster leaves the municipal supply unavailable or unsuitable for drinking.;-)

Never could understand bottled water

I hear ya Perry...seems pretty silly to me too!

Now I HAVE used “bottled water” in the past (Africa, Asia, Europe, and few garden spots in the good ol' USA), but generally speaking, I don't see the allure (let alone the need). That said, those areas that pump a ton of BS into the culinary water supply, are probably an exception. There are of course filters and such that one can install to mitigate most (if not all) of that crap.

I spent a week or so just downstream from Chernobyl back in 2001, and even the “natives” DIDN'T drink the water (out of the tap) there!

Loyal

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I've used this many times whilst backpacking. No real need to carry a surplus of water around (it's heavy), as long as there is a source. And it seems all you poor folks getting hammered will have plenty of source... fare well and my thoughts are with you all.

First Need water purifier

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batten 'em down, she's leanin' to larboard. rain's getting heavy here as well. wish us well in the Chesapeake area. the next 16 hours look like hard work. got an ac sump ready and a red well pump and trough discharging to basement toilet. photos forthcoming, i guarantee big laughs over my creation.

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Good luck to you Eddie.....

Hope it all holds together 4U;-)

Radar

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A few tropical showers have started in SW CT...
We are, as of right now, predicted to be on the east side of storm.
Rivers, streams and ponds are already full.

Storm surge, depending on when Irene gets here is predicted to be about 2' higher than the nor'easter in '92..we have hundreds of house built in the 1940's built below flood elevation...not a good situation.

I fear the tree damage will be real bad...Its very green around here, which doesn't bode well for the power situation.

Not sure how much sleep I'll get tonight...please stay safe.

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I do not use bottled water but prefer to filter my own before use. Cheaper and no plastic bottles.
I need more Jameson though!

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The bottled water thing is about storage. No electric no water. Got bottled water you survive.
This is NY metro area guys. Everything is polutted here.

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Chuck,
I think the bottled water thing goes out to the ones who have wells and need power to pump the water. This does extend to the city wide power though. I've never lost the ability to get tap water while living in Va Beach and on city water during a storm when most power is out. When power goes out...the water kept flowing. Now when the plants lose power...then there's a good reason to have plenty of bottled water around.

For years

we recommended that our municipal clients keep one days worth of water "in the air" in elevated tanks. Even without power fire departments can work and homeowners can drink. I do keep bottled water at home, but ours is in the 5 gallon bottles that we carry when camping.

Andy

At this point the boat is hauled and secured. Both the office and house are secured. It is raining and the wind is blowing about 10 MPH. The fan is running at high speed with a 55 Gal. drum of sewage tilted a little up. All we can do is to wait for the drum to tilt down.

We are going to be on the east side of the eye by 65-70 miles. Not the side of the eye I want to be on, i.e. higher winds on the east side of the storm. The winds on the east of the storm are out of the east. On eastern Long Island there is more damage from winds out of the eastern quadrant than winds from the western quadrant.

One problem on Long Island is that our electric interstructure is in bad shape. We are most likely looking at a week of no power.

Will post some pictures when I can.

I'm no rocket surgeon but...

can't you just run the tap water into another container???? How many milk jugs, soda bottles and juice bottles did you throw away in the last week?

I'm no rocket surgeon but...

Perry...that's exactly what we do. I bet we have 6-8 bottles of tap water in the fridge and about the same sitting out. Since my wife loves Mountain Dew I also use empty MD bottles to fill and take on trips and such.

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Even if I have to urge for some water, I will refuse to buy it and buy something else (juice, soda, beer). I just can't bring myself to spend a buck for 16 oz of water.

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> Even if I have to urge for some water, I will refuse to buy it and buy something else (juice, soda, beer). I just can't bring myself to spend a buck for 16 oz of water.

I will if I am down in So Cal or Arizona. The water there is NASTY!!! :-S

Up here, though, I drink it out of the tap. Oregon has pretty good water. So does Hawaii. 🙂

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> Good luck to you Eddie.....
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> Radar

it did, thanks. got power back yesterday evening (thursday). i will post photos of my backup sump pump. kind of funny looking, but imminenet disaster is the mother of invention. it was a well pump attached to bathroom wall, above sump pit. open a hole in bathroom wall to send a makeshift "gutter" to toilet. my bride and i camped out on the bottom step and pump rainwater all night, in shifts. i owe her big for giving me a break on that one.

now, to get the 12 volt backup running again...

We finally got every back up and runnning. Boat is still out of the water. The marina took a big hit on the docks. The dock Im on, lucky for me is the first one they are repairing but it will be awhile before we get fuel, electric, and water on the dock.

Thank goodness you are Ok though, Floyd. That's what counts. 🙂