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aemeijers

On 9/11/2011 5:18 PM, wrote:
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If you are worried about having enough water in an emergency, install
a couple of old electric hot water heaters in the basement - hung from
the ceiling or on a strong rack would be best - and have all your
water go through them so the water is always "fresh". In case of a
power failure you could drain water from them. No vent required if you
just crack a tap open above it to let air in.

Okay, McGyver. Somehow that doesn't sound real practical, or cheap. It
gets TOO nasty, I can just go to a hotel. Only problem with the Memorial
day storm was, the damage and outage was so widespread, there wasn't a
hotel room within 50 miles. I managed, but it wasn't pleasant. 20 or 30
gallons of stored water would have made it a lot easier. I was looking
for a cheap and painless way to do that. Like 4 or 5 5gallon plastic
jerry cans for less than 20 bucks each.

Like I said before, proper cure is to get somebody who knows local code
to come in and put half-a-dozen critical circuits on a transfer switch
for me, and buy a generator. If I can have furnace (and maybe AC),
water, and 2 or 3 outlets for fridge, computer, tv, reading lamp, etc, I
would be fine. But given how seldom I have extended outages (every
couple of years), the other stuff the place needs (like new siding) has
to be higher on the list.

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aem sends...