Hi frens. I’m not being a scaremonger. Please. We have been advised by Q that we will enter ‘10 days of darkness’. We have no idea when that will be but if you have not started to prepare, do it as soon as possible. This guy has some good advice and just one tip may help you get thru this. If you have any tips on what you are doing to prepare, please share.
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If your jugs are sealed, you can keep water a long time, depending on how good it is to start. Some people use a few drops of bleach -- I don't. My main advice -- keep them covered and out of the light. Get a gravity ceramic candle filter, and build your own jug system. Know where your local surface water is -- and be prepared to carry and filter if required. Do NOT use valuable drinking water to flush a toilet -- time for the emergency composter. RUREDY?
I buy the separate replacement filters here: https://www.jmccwaterfilters.com/product/gravity-replacement-filter-elements/
Take a blue 5 gal jug. Drill a 1/2 hole in the bottom. Cut a 4" hole around the neck and remove it. Reach in and mount the filter. Fill the jug and catch the filtered drip.
Sanitation is a major, and ignored prepper issue. In 3 weeks, you're yard will get real funky -- especially with a family. I suggest the most important prepper book of all is "The Humanure Handbook" by Joseph C. Jenkins. Get it, read it, be ready and regular.
Buy a few 5 gal buckets, a big block of that chipped cedar animal bedding, and a camper toilet seat -- you're in bizness.
Some water safety tips during emergencies:
https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/emergency-disinfection-drinking-water
Well.... maybe. That's a lot of capital outlay and effort, sometimes one has to drill down quite a long way to reach groundwater or aquifers. And even then you have to be careful of bio-hazards (algae, bacteria, e-coli, etc.). And if you're in the proximity downstream of an industrial plant, you also have to deal with potentially harmful pollutants like heavy metals (lethal) or chemicals. So you would also have to invest in a water purification process like distillation or reverse osmosis treatments. It's hard and expensive to do that for an individual.
I once contacted a well-digging company locally to inquire about using groundwater, and I got an estimate of a few thousand dollars, and that didn't even include SEARCHING for a viable source on my property! So I started collecting bottles of water...large and small. Be sure it's stored in BPH-free plastic and it should last a long, long time. Also you can capture rainwater in barrels, if you're prepared to boil it before drinking it.
Thanks.... for my area in east Tennessee I would have to go down about 80 ft to the aquifer. I live in the hills, ya know.
I keep several Sawyer filters on hand, unopened. These are perfect barter items and they are cheap. Purification can be achieved by use of pool shock which is more shelf stable than liquid bleach. A few bags of shock will purify thousands of gallons of water. Used in conjunction with the Sawyer filters you should be set if you have a source of water which may not be contaminated by chemicals or metals but may have wee beasties that will give your tummy the rumblies. Be aware cholera, e-coli, and other microbes of the like will spring up like crazy if there is any interruption of utility supply. I forget the ratio of shock to water but its a very small amount of shock to make bleach then a very small amount of bleach to purify water. Good luck.
Actually it is "Darnkess", not darkness.
What does the typo mean? NK. North Korea?
No idea, but it is almost certainly important. Doubt it was a simple typo.
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If it’s NorKo then they’ve been living in darkness for the past few decades lol
Three Days of Darnkess Paperback – December 18, 2014 by Aitken - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27614690-three-days-of-darnkess
Darnkess-Unsettling disturbing pain.
Thought it was darnkess
Q ALWAYS corrected the typos, usually in the next drop, so this was intentional. I have no idea what it means but it was intentional.
I have the blue 5 gal. jugs(x8) and I refill fill them once a year in my bathtub. I put 1/4 tsp. of bleach in each jug. Been doing this for several years and it works for me.
I learned that if you fill your jugs with tap water thats already been chlorinated you dont need to add anything. If you get that platicky taste/smell in your water just aerate it. Water should be rotated.
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