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Who Has Water Stored?

dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
edited September 2018 in General Discussion
My wife bought a water barrel 5 years ago that holds 55 gallons. It is a blue plastic container and she bought some chemical that makes the water good for 5 years.

After Christmas we have to rinse the barrel out real good and buy more chemicals and were good for 5 more years.

I tried to tell my wife that we did not need it because we have a well and i keep at least 20 gallons of gas but she wanted it anyway.

She told me what if the well broke and i did not have an answer for that.
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  • 84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 10,461 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've started to post about this before. I am almost compulsive about storing (hoarding?) Stuff like that. I have a 1500 gallon underground gravity fed (by spring water) tank.

    I have roughly 75-100 gallons set aside in my "Prep room" upstairs. Im compulsive about not throwing away 2 litre soda bottles. I pass two extremely nice natural springs on the way home from work.

    I will collect roughly 20 bottles or so, throw them in the vehicle, and fill them up on the way home. I've also got (a'hem) a few 5 gallon NATO water storage plastic containers, as well as a refrigerated inverted 5 gallon water cooler with (a'hem) a few sealed five gallon water bottles.


    Yes, I am a Water Hoarder. Like food, fuel, kerosene, firewood, etc etc, you can not have too much of that stuff on hand. [:D]
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  • varianvarian Member Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i have a lot of it in my well
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  • TfloggerTflogger Member Posts: 3,398 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds like your dog has a lot stored[:D]
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  • jwb267jwb267 Member Posts: 19,664 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a 300 gallon hot tub.
    I also store 15 gallon of drinking water in plastic jugs
    I have a generator that will power my well pump along with 25 gallon of gasoline
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't drink water so I don't store it.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've got 10 cases of water, well/generator, and a river to draw from with the bucket gravity filtering system.
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  • WMClarkWMClark Member Posts: 821 ✭
    edited November -1
    I keep 6 55 gallon barrels of water on hand. If something happened to the well or extended power outage that would deplete the fuel supply for the generator. It's just a backup to the backup plan.
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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,891 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have about 25 gallons of dehydrated water in my emergency supplies.
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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,891 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have about 25 gallons of dehydrated water in my emergency supplies.
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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,891 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have about 25 gallons of dehydrated water in my emergency supplies.
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  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a well and county water . Well is for the garden and yard . Also have an old fashioned hand pump I can install if needed
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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  • NavybatNavybat Member Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have 5.5 gallon blue storage containers all over the house, as well as a "few" 55 gallon drums in the basement. I also have a spring fed creek in my back yard which is year round. I'm set! [:D]
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  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,065 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Now me I'd skip that chemically treated barrel water. don't know how long or what stagnant water tastes like but I'm sure it's in those barrels. Ever since Canada Dry makes cans of flavored fizzy water that's my go to long term stored water. Also pasteurized beer is another way to store water.
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  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,115 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No need to, rains often. Unless the earth precesses, which will never happen, I see no sense in it.
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  • US Military GuyUS Military Guy Member Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I keep two 40 gallon water heaters full.

    [;)]
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  • diver-rigdiver-rig Member Posts: 6,336 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've got a 500 gallon cistern. Also have 2 1000 gallon stock tanks, and multiple smaller. The livestock drinks, but I refill.

    And it rains here constantly. Knock on.......
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, generator, chain and bucket backup.

    As freezer empties over seasons, we fill 2 liter soda bottles with water, freeze. Will keep things cold for days when power is out, can drink once thawed.


    We do keep one of the grandkid's wading pools stored in the garage. Tucked uder a downspout, will hold 500 gallons of rainwater.
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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just buy bottled water when they're on a really good sell, and rotate my Supply. That way I know my water won't go bad.

    Plus if I have to go mobile, it's a lot easier to load up a bunch of cases of water than it is to load up a 55 gallon barrel full of water...
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,375 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    we have a well
    but I keep about 30 to 40 gallons in 5 gallon sealed buckets to use to flush the toilets or general use and a few cases of bottle water
    also keep a few 5 gallon buckets in th eshop just in case [:0]
    I have several 30 and 50 gallon barrels but there empty right now
    I try and keep about 30 gallons of gas on hand for the generator ( rotate it thru the lawnmowers and old tractor )
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  • kidthatsirishkidthatsirish Member Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I do, but it's tough having to move every few years or so.
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    20,000 gallon of chlorinated pool water can be run thru Toyhauler for hot water, toilet, shower.
    Can be filtered for consumption.
    https://beprepared.com/water-storage/water-filters.html
    I buy up cases of bottled water at the start of every hurricane season also.
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  • sharpshooter039sharpshooter039 Member Posts: 5,897 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a well with an old fashion hand pump,,If that fails I have a PVC pipe on a rope that pulls 1 gallon up at a time.. It would be work but it would be fresh
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    edited November -1
    This may sound a bit off beat but the first thing that came to mind when reading this brought back a very old memory.

    After being unable to find a place to go, stuck in a highly populated place and spending a long afternoon enjoying many swigs of barley pop.[B)] I found my urinated water reservoir contained enough liquid to actually flush a toilet without having to pull the handle! [:0][:D]

    TRUE STORY
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    In the House, maybe Two Hundred Gallons, various containers...

    Outside, 1650 Gallons in an Ag Tank.

    In the Greenhouse, maybe another Two Hundred Gallons in milk jugs...
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We have a creek behind our house that runs to a lake about 300 yards away and I also have a water filter that'll filter out things as small as viruses. And we have a 50 gallon water heater in the house.
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  • WulfmannWulfmann Member Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    North Carolina has been hoarding water the last couple days by the trillions of gallons
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    "Fools learn from their own mistakes. I learn from the mistakes of others"
    Otto von Bismarck
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  • minitruck83minitruck83 Member Posts: 5,369
    edited November -1
    Those blue 55gal barrels, if not shaded, (or painted black) can develop algae problems over time. I dump mine twice yearly, and still don't really trust the water. I'm in FL so it may not be as bad elsewhere.
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  • chollagardenschollagardens Member Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well with a solar pump and 3,000 gallon storage tank.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am on a well. I have a generator that will run the well pump.
    However, if the SHTF big time, running that generator would bring bad guys to your house, even way up on the mountain like I am. Run it 20 minutes a day for a week, and some bad guys with guns will show up to ruin your day.

    So I have a PVC pipe that will draw up 1.5 gallons.
    It is 200 feet to the water of the well so that would be a chore.

    Also I have a spring 1,000 feet from the house where I can get good water.
    I also keep 40 gallons of water in one gallon jugs in the basement.
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