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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I have a question about keeping water. How long can you keep self-filled jugs before the water gets gross or dangerous? Is there some way to seal them so they keep for longer? Is there a better way?
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?
A month? Longer? OK, will look up the filter you mention. I've got enough yard to shit in for quite a while, lol.
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.
Great info! Thanks so much.