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Hello, August Abolins.
On 11/17/20 9:25 PM you wrote:

 AA> Hi Charles! 16 Nov 20 15:45, you wrote to me:
 CP>> The bad part it we have well water, not city water, so power 
 CP>> outages also knock out the well pumps.
 AA> Lack of access to the usual water source can be a major problem 
 AA> for many, even in my area where many homes feature their own 
 AA> wells.

If it were my own well, I'd have a manual backup for the pump if nothing else,
but it's a community well, serving about 30 homes.
 
 AA> But, I have a stash of the small bottled kind and keep a few large 
 AA> jugs of water around.  It's a relief to have some spare water even 
 AA> just for flushing. Yesterday I could get my water in town at the 
 AA> shop where the town water is gravity-fed from a nearby lake to a 
 AA> water tower.

I do as well. About 12 5 gallon jugs, and several gallon jugs and smaller for
keeping frozen for ice should it be needed to keep food cold.

 CP>> In 2008, Hurricane Ike knocked out the power around Houston for a 
 CP>> while.  My parents were lucky, only a few hours. Where I live now 
 CP>> was a few days.  I lived about 1.5 miles from where I do now, and 
 CP>> was without power or water for 2 weeks.
 AA> The winds yesterday could have practically been called a 
 AA> hurricane. But guess anything under 100mph is just a "Storm With 
 AA> No Name".

I think the biggest take away people got from our situation was how outdated
our utility infrastructure was.  And all these years later, little has changed.

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