Uh oh...Hurricane Sandy headed right for me

[Stormin Mormon]

(Web page says out of stock, be back in stock late in May 2012)

I ran across this for drinking water storage. Not sure there is any real advantage to just filling the tub.

The waterBOB is a water containment system that holds up to 100 gallons of fresh drinking water in any standard bathtub. But, you won't be able to shower, till the Water Bob is taken out.

Would someone or several someones measure your bath tub, for me. Length, width, depth. Last time I measured the tub at my parents house, it was under 50 gallons.

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It's a bit late now, but there is a product called a WaterBOB or similar which is a food grade plastic bag shaped to fit a standard bathtub that you can fill with some 80 gal or so of water and have it stay clean and drinkable. Comes with a siphon pump that fits the port on the bag for easy dispensing. Not very expensive

[Ed Pawlowski]

Oven will not light unless we have electricity to run a fan inside of it. Burners can be lit with a match.

[Stormin Mormon]

I've worked on gas ranges, with electric hot surface ignitor, for the oven. Match won't do the job, the gas valve is also electric for the oven.

Like you say, range top burners light with match.

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Oven will not light unless we have electricity to run a fan inside of it. Burners can be lit with a match.

[HeyBub]

Caution: Water in a water heater is sometimes contaminated with bacteria and should be used only for washing things. If you HAVE to drink water from a water heater, sterilize it first by boiling or adding 2-3 drops of bleach per gallon (quart?).

[HeyBub]

Walmart's computers found that beer and strawberry PopTarts were the highest demand items.

[Norminn]

Some of the bankers we love to hate live on LI and CT...shame if they washed out to sea :o)

We are moving, getting util. reconnected in new home. Hope they haven't sent all the util. workers east from here :o)

I've seen films of the '38 hurricane hitting LI and mainland; fairly awesome. Snow in WV on top of 12" rain? That's rather peculiar. Wonder what Brownie is doin' these days......

[Norminn]

I had a friend in Florida who had a lot of sense, smart lady. Coupon clipper and lots of leftovers to save money. Filled her bathtub with water prior to a hurricane. No difficulties in her locale during the storm. She used the water from the tub for cooking for days afterward to save money :o)

[Norminn]

During a tornado fly by years ago, we were only ones on our street with gas for heat and cooking...whole neighborhood came by for showers and to cook..fun. Had a temp. resident, elderly lady whose home was damaged....up early and drank coffee hotter than anyone I've ever seen. We went for a ride after a couple of days and drove by a cousin's chicken factory without recognizing it was their place...National Guard was out picking up their chickens 'cause the tornado took off the end of their buildings.

I've used votive candles on a shelf in the oven to heat food; Beanie Weenies, power shut off, 40F.

[Thomas]

Get to the MAC machine and max it out. If the ATM's go down and card readers at the store, cash will be king. Put it back later if not needed. I went yesterday. NorthEastern PA. Tomorrow is recycle pick up day. I can't wait to see what idiot neighbors live nearby.

[Han]

Mark wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Amen.

[Home Guy]

Use a sharpie marker to write your name on your skin so they can identify your floating corpse during the recovery...

[gfretwell]

Bottled water seems to keep better than stuff you bottle at home. I suppose it is because bottled water is sterilized as are the bottles.

It is best to just watch for sales and buy bottled water then

We usually have 10-12 cases sitting around all summer, just for the hurricane season. I also keep both freezers packed with bottles of water topping it up when we have a storm coming. Those will hold the fridge for quite a while, they are handy in a cooler and in the end, they are still drinking water.

[micky]

iI wish I had a gas stove. No gas for 100 yards.

The typeface I use for Usenet displays rn and it looks just like m So I thought you had a tomato fly by. Sounded exciting.

That's quite some tomato.

One year when I was a political campagin worker staying in a basically empty apartment, I used sterno and a grill to cook. I had to move the can around to cook any food bigger than 2 inches, but other than that, it worked. I don't remember if there was a slight sterno taste to the food or not.

[micky]

I don't get it. How will you tell?

[micky]

I don't find that to be so. I've bottled my own tap water into big apple juice bottles and diet soda bottles, and it keeps for months even with no change in taste. Maybe it's the water around here, which comes fromt hree reservoirs.

But I'm not saving water because of rain and wind. I only do this when a repair to the water main. is scheduled. We have a lot of those because the builder didn't use flexible water main pipe, and the gravel he laid the pipe on was probably not small enough either.

[micky]

I heard on the rado that there are only 20,000 linemen (in the country, I think they meant) and there have been requests for 24,000 from north eastern states. Usually t hey talk about importing linemen and bucket trucks during the outage, but people complained so much during the last one that they started talking aobut it on Saturday, and implied they were already here on Sunday, when I'm sure they won't get here unitl today or tomorrow (tuesday).

"I"m doing a great job" He told me so.

[micky]

What do you all thinlk about my drinking water from the stream behind my house? It only goes another 3 miles west of here, through areas with single family homes. and a few apartments.

Would the only contamination be weed and insect poison applied to lawns and shrubs etc? Wouldn't that be washed off and washed away by October 30?

There used to be little crayfish living in the stream, and nothing much seems to have changed since then, but I haven't been to that part of the stream lately.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Propane. Two 100# tanks in the back of the house. They come once a year to fill them.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Some crews are in place in CT and more coming. Long drive from the west coast where some are coming from. Until the wind declines to under 40 mph, it does not matter anyway.

CL&P screwed up last October storm so they are being watched closely now. They tried to cheap out, waited, and got caught with the available linemen spoken for by others.

[The Daring Dufas]

I haven't seen it on the news but I'll bet some crews are coming from The Southern Company here in The Southeast to help the Damn Yankees with their little wind storm. ^_^

TDD