On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:50:49 GMT, "l not -l" > wrote:

>
>On 22-Oct-2018, wrote:
>
>> On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 5:27:35 PM UTC-5, 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. I've never given my water heater a
>> > > thought until last year when it died on me. 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. We life in the country
>> > and have a cistern and a well. 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. 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.
>> >
>> My grandparents had a well but it never ran dry and it was drop the
>> bucket,
>> let it fill up, and pull it up and there's your water. Hahaha But
>> reading
>> your story makes me glad I live in the city.
>My paternal grandparents lived on a farm with a cistern that supplied their
>water needs most of the time. By the time I came along, they had an
>electric pump and running water. The house, smokehouse and equipment shed
>all had gutters that directed rainwater into the cistern. It was long after
>they retired, moved "to town" and I was a teenager that I thought: wait,
>birds crap all over the roof, then the rain washes it all into the cistern
>---------- YUCK!

Then again, though that was true of the cistern that my father had in
Spain, he also kept a handful of fish (don't know what variety) in it
so that mosquito's could not breed in the water. The water tasted
good, we never boiled it lol