Good place for me to jump in and repost a good idea.
Dr. Bill Wattenberg of kgo.com and pushback.com, a nuclea/weapon/spaceship scientist and teacher, who does a weekend science type radio program on the radio, for the past 30 years or more.
Dr. Bill always asks “Do you have a place to go and can you get there on the gas in your car, without getting caught in the traffic?”
Most give him an answer such as “to my parents home in a small Calif. town”.
To which he reminds them that on his Gov. think tank job, the scientists estimate there will 25 million folks headed for that small town, attempting to get out of the cities, without food, water, supplies or even the money to buy them.
He has attempted for years to convince folks that if the electric is not on, the gas pumps will not work, nor will the ATM machine or the credit card systems.
Wellton Arizona is 237 miles from San Diego, during the cold war, the Military sent its Officers to the local school boards and ordered them to be prepared, for they could expect the masses of southern California people to arrive on their properties..........a friend was on the board and so that is a first hand report.
Catherine told him she was a Mormon and had a food supply and she said he looked her up and down [an attractive lady, a little plump], and told her “yes, you look well fed and I will kill you now, for your food”...........
Now for a good idea, a caller called the program and suggested that everyone install a second hot water heater, beside the first one.
The new one is not to have heat, it is to be first in line for the cold water, so that the constant flow of fresh water through it and into heater #1, means that you always have 40 or 50 gallons of fresh water for drinking.
You will have shut off valves on both the in and out pipes, so it can be isolated and water drawn from the bottom cleaning faucet.
Dr. Bill liked the idea and has suggested it several times, and I agree, a safe, clean, supply of fresh water.
My kind of water storage.
You can take that water heater idea a step further by installing a bladder tank instead, which will give about 40 gallons or so under pressure, even if the mains are down. Always place a check valve ahead of the bladder tank to prevent it from draining back to the main.