Originally posted by OKCGene:
All the food in the world will be of no use to you unless you have sufficient water supplies.
Last week my house had a slab leak (water leak under the house) and my water main was turned off for 6 days before the repair was made and the water main turned back on.
Have a river nearby and have backpacking water purification pump. Been usung them for decades.
I keep about 50 gallons of water on hand. Conventional advice is that you will need 1 gallon per day. Bull-puckey !!!! I drink a little over a gallon a day. I also had to wash my hands, brush my teeth, and my kitty needs water every day too.
Fortunately I have the keys to an empty family house nearby so I went there daily to shower. I really did not have to rough it, I just used this as a learning and teaching moment for me.
And not to be gross, but you need to consider water needed for toilet use, including santizing your hands and washing them. Fortunately I have an old camping toilet that worked well enough.
Water Water Water, if you don't have water within 3 days you will be DEAD.
Best wishes to you.
Edit to add: As mentioned above see if you have a LSD food pantry/food storage center nearby. That stuff is well packed, better than you can do at home.
LINK to LDS locations .
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