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From: EMERGENCIES HAPPEN! BE PREPARED”
Emergency Water Source in Urban Area
Let’s say you are away from home, in town where there are commercial buildings but none are open –no building is open, not even restaurants. An emergency happens and you need to get home or maybe you can’t get home. There is a pure water source right where you are. Rule: Always have some type of water container in your car or with your person, could be an empty water bottle, the ones about 17 oz., anything to collect water – bigger is better. There is a collapsible water jug in the trunk of my car.
You need to buy one item that is less than $10 on Amazon or at any hardware store. I also see one for less than $9 at Lowes and Home Depot. What strange thing is this to allow you to have water in town? It is a Silcock key (some sellers call this a Silcox key).
A commercial building has a water outlet on the outside of the building. Had you thought about that? Start looking on the outside of commercial buildings to find this outlet in order to assure yourself this is true. That outlet is fixed so it won’t freeze in cold weather so don’t expect to see a plain exposed pipe/faucet like you have at your house outside – it may have some kind of cover on it with the heavy-duty pipe inside with a place to fit the key or have no cover but be an exposed fancy heavy-duty pipe with a place to fit the key.
A Silcock key will open that outlet and you have pure water. The key you want has four sizes of key on it. I saw one that is just one size and you don’t want that one. One with four sizes of key assures you will have the right size to insert in the outlet and start water flowing. After gathering your water, turn it off with the key.
Are you stealing water if you do this? Technically, you are. If the building was open, you could fill your water bottle at a water fountain inside – is that stealing? No one would accuse you of stealing water if you filled your water bottle in the building. If the building is closed and you must have water in an emergency situation, use the key. When the emergency is over, you may go to the company and offer to pay them an amount for the water you took but I doubt they will take it.
Keep this Silcock key in your car or in a backpack if you carry one all the time, or in your Bug Out Bag if you keep one in your car. Make sure a Silcock key is in your car.
Consider people in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico after the hurricane floods. They could have gotten good water out of closed commercial buildings if they had a Silcock key. All that water was still in the locked buildings but they could not get to it. Get yourself a Silcock key today, okay?