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   Hello, August Abolins.   
   On 11/17/20 9:25 PM you wrote:   
      
    AA> Hi Charles! 16 Nov 20 15:45, you wrote to me:   
    CP>> The bad part it we have well water, not city water, so power    
    CP>> outages also knock out the well pumps.   
    AA> Lack of access to the usual water source can be a major problem    
    AA> for many, even in my area where many homes feature their own    
    AA> wells.   
      
   If it were my own well, I'd have a manual backup for the pump if nothing else,   
   but it's a community well, serving about 30 homes.   
       
    AA> But, I have a stash of the small bottled kind and keep a few large    
    AA> jugs of water around.  It's a relief to have some spare water even    
    AA> just for flushing. Yesterday I could get my water in town at the    
    AA> shop where the town water is gravity-fed from a nearby lake to a    
    AA> water tower.   
      
   I do as well. About 12 5 gallon jugs, and several gallon jugs and smaller for   
   keeping frozen for ice should it be needed to keep food cold.   
      
    CP>> In 2008, Hurricane Ike knocked out the power around Houston for a    
    CP>> while.  My parents were lucky, only a few hours. Where I live now    
    CP>> was a few days.  I lived about 1.5 miles from where I do now, and    
    CP>> was without power or water for 2 weeks.   
    AA> The winds yesterday could have practically been called a    
    AA> hurricane. But guess anything under 100mph is just a "Storm With    
    AA> No Name".   
      
   I think the biggest take away people got from our situation was how outdated   
   our utility infrastructure was.  And all these years later, little has changed.   
      
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