Storm Prep Advice

My dear friend Janwas texting me this evening asking about our storm preparations. Since she was a good Girl Scout she shared her list of her preps with me. I matched her, flashlight for flashlight. There was one thing she mentioned that I had not done. Water banking.

I mentioned that I had not filled her bath tub and wasn’t worried about losing water. Jan told me about the ice storm she survived in Texas years ago when the city lost power and couldn’t run the water treatment and could not filter or pump water.

Now this is not Texas, but I did not want to take any chances. So I filled up water. Jan and both are of the like mind, if we do the work and plan for it hopefully we won’t need it.

No one in our house takes baths so I was shocked how long it took to fill the bathtub. It just reinforced to me that baths are a huge waste of water. I know ole Thor people who love a good soak, but I am just such a conservationist when it comes to water I can’t justify it.

If I don’t end up needing this tub water I am going to use it to water plants, at least for a while.

I hope everyone is safe, and prepared and that this storm is not as bad as was first predicted. Only time will tell.