Posted on 09/05/2017 11:50:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
Evaporated & condensed.
That’s what distillation is.
Rain is naturally distilled water.
Filter out anything it picked up long the long fall, and you’ve got water as good & clean as it gets.
Actually, glass windows are pretty fragile unless they are hurricane rated. People inland have to worry about the numerous tornadoes and microbursts that are spawned in the outer bands of a hurricane. And they will break windows.
Better yet, do it blind.
Use about 6 cups labeled so only you know. Give a sip of each to the family members who don’t know which are which, and then add up the scores.
There will be no credit cards or ATMs. Have cash.
Put legal papers in ziplock bags or other water tight containers.
Be sure to have an ample supply of any medications, it may be a while before you can obtain more.
Refrain from flushing the toilet when possible.
Some day I’m going to figure out what people make with bread, milk and toilet paper before every snowstorm.
+1. There are people in Houston waiting for bottled water right now.
Anecdotally, I’ve lived through 20 plus hurricanes in Florida and never had a broken window.
Objects that are already up in the air like a tree limb are at risk for becoming aprojectile, but is rare that something on the ground that is dense enough to break a window is going to be picked up off the ground and hurled hard enough to break a window. But I get your point. Not saying you’re wrong FRiend.
Reminds me of a video I once saw that demo’d what foam insulation did to the space shuttle at 20k mph.
Rush is painfully off-base here. The need for bottled water is in case tap water systems become contaminated or stop working. Ask folks in Beaumont, TX if they can drink tap water after Harvey’s flooding. Also, if you wait until you know for sure where a hurricane is going to hit, it’s usually too late.
near Ft Worth Texas
bottled water costs me
35 cents a gallon,
and I like it a lot better
than the tap water in my house.
why do others pay more?
It really isn’t a hardship for each person to fill a dozen milk jugs, etc., with water. Even for the kids to fill their own. Might want a good sturdy shelving unit to hold it all though, unless you have a lot of floor space or some luan or cardboard to sandwich between tiers of jugs.
Wow, that is cheap.
*rme*
That’s everywhere. People panic and think they will be with out bread and milk for weeks. They also don’t have no consideration for the next person.
Do you have a dozen milk jugs in your house?
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One of the reason Houston got flooded was because Harvey didn't move out of the area for several days.
Interesting link. Upshot: distilled water is fine, so long as there wasn’t anything else in there that accompanied the distillation process (i.e.: lower boiling point, condenses back with water) - to wit, rain may contain condensed pollutants, so dense urban areas or fire-ravaged zones might warrant concern.
On the whole, drinking rain should be fine given a little filtration & purification. I’m actually collecting some right now.
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