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Ed Pawlowski

On 10/22/2018 6:28 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2018-10-22 5:58 PM, wrote:
>
>> It's something nobody ever thinks of until their drinking water is not
>> available or anything like that.Â* I've never given my water heater a
>> thought until last year when it died on me.Â* Same thing for most all
>> appliances.
>>
>> I hope everything is back to 'normal' as soon as possible.
>
> It's bad enough here when the power goes off.Â* We life in the country
> and have a cistern and a well.Â* It gets a little tight in the summer
> when the well runs dry and the cistern is low and the water company
> can't deliver for a couple days.Â* If the power goes out there is nothing
> to power the water pressure system so there is no running water. No
> water to drink, not water to shower and no water to flush the toilet.
>
>

You can prepare for much of it, even flushing, but most people do not
keep a five gallon bucket of water for that "just in case". I've always
had city water so you get spoiled that way. Water and sewer are about
$800 a year here, but has never gone down in a storm.