Wake up, check TV to make sure Nothing Important is going on, continue with the day….
Winter is about halfway over and althouhg nearvy locales experienced a couple power outages this season, we’ve been relatively lucky here and not had any disruptions…might be a first. Doesnt mean anything though…still have to wire up an uninterruptable power supply and a low-wattage light for emergency use. While Im at it, I do need to pick up a few more 5-gallon jugs of kerosene too.
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Lately I’ve been drinking Coke in 20 oz plastic bottles rather than cans. I save the bottles, fill them with water and use them to line the edges of my upright freezer. If the power goes out, they’ll help keep things frozen and then they also double as an extra source of water for washing up, flushing toilets, etc, etc.
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Need to do some sort of website update this weekend. Should have plenty of time since I expect things to be slow around here what with the Super Bowl tomorrow….
There’s anecdotal evidence that long term storage of water in re-used plastic bottles can have chemicals leech out into them. Probably not a huge concern, but I wouldn’t want to use them for my primary backup water source.
another thing you can do with the frozen plastic coke bottles is if you go on a picnic or fishing, you can put them in your cooler to keep your soda & sandwiches cold
Read carefully, amigo….its not for drinking. Its for washing up, flushing toilets and that sort of thing. All drinkable water is kept in nice, new 5-gallon plastic jerry cans that have been cleaned with bleach and have had the water stored with stabilizers to prevent algae and bacteria.
Yup….I thought about using brand new 1-liter bottles of bottled water…it would make storage easier and kill two birds with one stone. But, when it thaws the water has a rather flat taste to it.
Oh, I did read carefully, I just wanted to add in that additional disclaimer just in case… dat is all.