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I took yesterday off of work, and bought bottled water and work gloves. I keep 100 gallons of gas in an auxiliary tank on my truck and a few 5 gallon gas cans. I pulled up to the fire dept. and filled up every city truck, every police car, and every other gas burning vehicle the city had. I also had 10 gallons of pre mixed 2 cycle oil, and filled up their chain saws.
It was all I could do, but I think it helped. There was no gas within 25 miles of my city.
I also wanted to take a few moments to pass on some lessons learned from this.
Keeping in mind, that we just moved into our new house about a month ago, we
hadn't had time to get a lot of our resources in place.
1. Our new place has an electric stove and electric hot water heaters. While I still love our electric appliances, not having an alternative heat source to boil water really sucks. I hadn't moved my gas grill from the old house yet, so we had to rush out and buy one.
Our new plan is for me to build a set of burners for cooking with iron skillets and pots. I will build this out of angle iron, and a few basic grill parts from the supply store. You may ask why I'm not just getting a grill. Because I don't need to drop food on a grill, I want to be able to cook meals with iron cookware.
I will also be getting a wood burning stove, but that is later down the road.
2. Even though we didn't lose water, a lot of people did. Have you considered what you'd do if you didn't have water? I mean, if you are lucky, like I am, we have a nice creek running about 1/8th of a mile from our house, but we didn't have sufficient filtering and water jugs to handle it.
My new plan is a three prong approach:
* Buy water jerry cans (about 10 of them)
* Install a 250 gallon tank between the water company and my house to serve as a reserve. The key is to install it so that the water is constantly being refreshed so it won't go bad.
* Install 55 gallon rain drums at 3 of my downpipes coming from the gutters
I will also be investing in MORE filtering. We did have some, but not nearly enough.
More to come.
I took yesterday off of work, and bought bottled water and work gloves. I keep 100 gallons of gas in an auxiliary tank on my truck and a few 5 gallon gas cans. I pulled up to the fire dept. and filled up every city truck, every police car, and every other gas burning vehicle the city had. I also had 10 gallons of pre mixed 2 cycle oil, and filled up their chain saws.
It was all I could do, but I think it helped. There was no gas within 25 miles of my city.
I also wanted to take a few moments to pass on some lessons learned from this.
Keeping in mind, that we just moved into our new house about a month ago, we
hadn't had time to get a lot of our resources in place.
1. Our new place has an electric stove and electric hot water heaters. While I still love our electric appliances, not having an alternative heat source to boil water really sucks. I hadn't moved my gas grill from the old house yet, so we had to rush out and buy one.
Our new plan is for me to build a set of burners for cooking with iron skillets and pots. I will build this out of angle iron, and a few basic grill parts from the supply store. You may ask why I'm not just getting a grill. Because I don't need to drop food on a grill, I want to be able to cook meals with iron cookware.
I will also be getting a wood burning stove, but that is later down the road.
2. Even though we didn't lose water, a lot of people did. Have you considered what you'd do if you didn't have water? I mean, if you are lucky, like I am, we have a nice creek running about 1/8th of a mile from our house, but we didn't have sufficient filtering and water jugs to handle it.
My new plan is a three prong approach:
* Buy water jerry cans (about 10 of them)
* Install a 250 gallon tank between the water company and my house to serve as a reserve. The key is to install it so that the water is constantly being refreshed so it won't go bad.
* Install 55 gallon rain drums at 3 of my downpipes coming from the gutters
I will also be investing in MORE filtering. We did have some, but not nearly enough.
More to come.
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