water storage?

[Wulf202]

They work great but for the price of two bricks (7 gallons) you can get a 55 gallon drum and a pump.

[buffalobo]

We use the gray ones, both 1.6 gal and 3.5 gal. Prefer 1.6 gal, easier for wife to handle/carry. Durable as well.

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[Ripper]

Thanks Guys, price vs easy portability is a big factor

[RonMexico]

I buy 2.5 gal jugs for $2 each bc it's cheap and easy. Story time: my closing date on a home got pushed out another week but we were planning on the original closing date for over a month, and I already called the utilities companies and scheduled to have them turned off. First, we lost water and then we lost our power. I learned two things, 20gals of water storage lasted us 3 days and my generator worked fine but is a little loud at night, so we went to bed earlier than normal.

Take away; was my wife was pleased I had the generator and water on hand and she doesn't mind if I store water in more locations now but she was a little pissed about me turning the utilities off early. I would like to store around 100gals with 10gals being bottle water.

[HoneyBadger]

I buy 2.5 gal jugs for $2 each bc it's cheap and easy. Story time: my closing date on a home got pushed out another week but we were planning on the original closing date for over a month, and I already called the utilities companies and scheduled to have them turned off. First, we lost water and then we lost our power. I learned two things, 20gals of water storage lasted us 3 days and my generator worked fine but is a little loud at night, so we went to bed earlier than normal.

Take away; was my wife was pleased I had the generator and water on hand and she doesn't mind if I store water in more locations now but she was a little pissed about me turning the utilities off early. I would like to store around 100gals with 10gals being bottle water.

Oops! Glad it worked out alright for you! hahaha

I am currently using mostly 1gal jugs from Costco, They are pretty space-efficient, are less than $1/ea and they are stackable (as long as you keep them in the plastic wrap).

[Grant H.]

I buy 2.5 gal jugs for $2 each bc it's cheap and easy. Story time: my closing date on a home got pushed out another week but we were planning on the original closing date for over a month, and I already called the utilities companies and scheduled to have them turned off. First, we lost water and then we lost our power. I learned two things, 20gals of water storage lasted us 3 days and my generator worked fine but is a little loud at night, so we went to bed earlier than normal.

Take away; was my wife was pleased I had the generator and water on hand and she doesn't mind if I store water in more locations now but she was a little pissed about me turning the utilities off early. I would like to store around 100gals with 10gals being bottle water.

The Honda EU series is amazingly quiet. They are a little more expensive, but when our Church did a camping trip together, I ran one 24/7 behind the main meeting tent and you could barely hear it.

We have them for work, and we buy the 2000 watt ones since you can run them in tandem and get 4000 watts for the same cost as the 3000 self contained unit.

It is amazing how having some preps can make a big difference, even when things haven't gone totally haywire.

[Dave_L]

Im working on getting things back together after our move this past summer. I never had a basement so now that I do, I'm looking at something like this to put in the basement:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Emergency-...ingMethod=p13n

Anything wrong with something like this? Are there better options?

[Wulf202]

Just the price. If you put a little work into it you can get barrels for $20-30. A jiggle siphon for $8 and a small barrel pump for $10. A bung wrench for $10 and have money left over for another barrel or smaller containers or even a dent in a decent filter set. (Sawyer)

[Dave_L]

Yeah, I'm ok spending a little more to have it be one stop as long as the stuff I'm getting will work. I may just order the barrel only (think it knocks off about $15-20) and get my own pump.

I figure one of these barrels would be sufficient for just the wife and I on top of drinking water that is stored.