water shut off: survivalist tips
Aug. 29th, 2011 07:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7We got a note stuck in our door from the town that they’d be shutting our water off at 7am today for sewer line work. So last night I took my shower early, and filled up a whole bunch of water bottles, and the coffee pot, so we’d be ready for this morning.
6:45 am I woke with a rumble in my gut and thought, “FUCK! The toilet needs water to flush!”
So I ran and grabbed a 5-gallon bucket from the basement, put it in the bathtub, and filled it with water. Here’s a little tip, which my boyfriend didn’t know. When the water is shut off (as, apparently, happened a lot when I was a kid, since I remember doing this rather a lot), you can flush your toilet by dumping in about half a gallon of liquid. You’ve probably done this by accident before. It’s just how flushing works, so it’s no big deal to do. That’s how you can make power outages and water shut-offs a lot less gross. When I was a kid we had rain barrels to collect from downspouts, for the garden, which meant that unless it was winter, we’d always have a ready source of water for things like that.
I’m just rather proud of myself for remembering it in time this morning.
6:45 am I woke with a rumble in my gut and thought, “FUCK! The toilet needs water to flush!”
So I ran and grabbed a 5-gallon bucket from the basement, put it in the bathtub, and filled it with water. Here’s a little tip, which my boyfriend didn’t know. When the water is shut off (as, apparently, happened a lot when I was a kid, since I remember doing this rather a lot), you can flush your toilet by dumping in about half a gallon of liquid. You’ve probably done this by accident before. It’s just how flushing works, so it’s no big deal to do. That’s how you can make power outages and water shut-offs a lot less gross. When I was a kid we had rain barrels to collect from downspouts, for the garden, which meant that unless it was winter, we’d always have a ready source of water for things like that.
I’m just rather proud of myself for remembering it in time this morning.
