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Sufficient Life
My main issue when the power goes out is that the normal purification of water is down. A building mistake not fixed. I do have a plan for really long term problems but it would not be worth the work to reconfigure for a problem lasting a week or two.
So I usually have a short term back up plan when I know that there's a storm coming and the power will almost certainly go out.
However I was so busy rushing to stack up wood and get it tarped before the rain came with this storm, I forgot to do some of my usually pre-storm preps. I forgot to put some treated water in a small tank in the garage . I have 5,000 gallon of untreated water but would rather not use it for some things. And I had forgot to fill the stock tanks.
Well I woke up this morning with no power and no stored treated water- blast.
So I want to make a pre-storm list of things to do so I won't forget
again.
1) Charge up the cell phone
2) fill stock tanks to the max
3) Cook a few easily re-heated items that need little time to get ready
4) Change the goat feeding location to inside a shed (goats hate to get wet,)
5) check the batteries in the lantern and flashlights are good.
6) have a full tank of gas in the truck
5) do a quick check of my normal supplies to make sure I have enough of what I typically use daily.
I'm sure I'll think of more to add.
What do you all do to cover a period of loss of power or other storm related-prep for the short term?
So I usually have a short term back up plan when I know that there's a storm coming and the power will almost certainly go out.
However I was so busy rushing to stack up wood and get it tarped before the rain came with this storm, I forgot to do some of my usually pre-storm preps. I forgot to put some treated water in a small tank in the garage . I have 5,000 gallon of untreated water but would rather not use it for some things. And I had forgot to fill the stock tanks.
Well I woke up this morning with no power and no stored treated water- blast.
So I want to make a pre-storm list of things to do so I won't forget
again.
1) Charge up the cell phone
2) fill stock tanks to the max
3) Cook a few easily re-heated items that need little time to get ready
4) Change the goat feeding location to inside a shed (goats hate to get wet,)
5) check the batteries in the lantern and flashlights are good.
6) have a full tank of gas in the truck
5) do a quick check of my normal supplies to make sure I have enough of what I typically use daily.
I'm sure I'll think of more to add.
What do you all do to cover a period of loss of power or other storm related-prep for the short term?