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..... my (soon to be illegal!) 55 gallon rain barrel ....

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Rain barrels are going to be illegal? What is the reasoning behind that? I’m not even going to put into words what I’m thinking right now .....

We lose power & we lose it all - phone, well/water, etc. We do have a hand pump on an old shallow well so in the past, I’ve pumped 5 gallon buckets for flushing the toilets. Before I renovated the old house & moved out here, I had to hand pump water for the horses all winter when the water line to the barn froze up or there was no power. When living here, I also had two big trash cans in the mud room I would fill up when the power was out for a couple of days, then I didn’t have to go outside every time I needed some water. We’re on what used to be a dead end road & until they built a subdivision off the end of it, we were some of the last folks to get our power restored when there was a big storm that knocked out large areas.

I can ‘rough it’ if I have to - the way things are going, it’s a skill that might come in handy.