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Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on July 09, 2012, 11:46:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on July 09, 2012, 08:35:14 pm ---I'm glad I didn't stay in VA. Nice place, but obviously not as disaster-free as I might've thought.

I always wonder about all the food that goes to waste in people's fridge and freezers.

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Ice becomes ultra valuable and then you learn to cook shelf stable food.

I'd still lean for indoor plumbing over electricity.

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That depends.....

shmokes:
It may be neither here nor there, at least as far as staying alive goes. Some areas around here were on water restrictions because the power outages affected some of the water treatment plants. So if the plumbing is working, but it's delivering poisonous water, it's of limited use. At least with plumbing you can dispose of human waste, I suppose. And if you have a gas stove or another means of creating cooking fires you can boil water to make it potable.

Generally speaking, though, I think I'd tend to agree. If I have to choose, I'll probably keep the water running over the electricity.

Gray_Area:
I can go either way, I guess.

I keep a couple jugs of water - one for cleaning, one for drinking (yes, it's filtered) - for small emergencies. I can always pee in the yard (hell, now that I have property, more than half the time I'm going outside to pee on my oak tree! Good lovin!), and crap in a pot and dig a hole in the yard. Of course, I have a killer environment to chill in, and I have books I can read, if there's a blackout. But in the summer, I'd go for electricity.

Another perk of living alone is that in either case, you don't have to worry about others pissing and moaning, or/and screwing up the order of things. Sweet jesus.

Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on July 19, 2012, 09:38:30 am ---Don't ever need to clean anything? 

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What?

Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on July 19, 2012, 04:24:11 pm ---I've lived without both for brief periods of time (say a week or so) and have to say running water by far was the bigger deal.  Can't wash clothes, flush toilets, take showers, drink anything etc etc.  You can only loot the neighbor's swimming pool for so long.  My wife lived on a boat for a couple of years and concurs.

 :dunno



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As I said, I keep a ration of water for both things. If I felt I needed more on hand, I'd have twenty gallons. I know how to use water in sparse circumstances. So, in the summer, I'd still have a fair bit of lifestyle comfort if I had electricity but no running water. If I were...somehow....unimaginably....shacked up with other people, I'd probably skim, hoard, and stow some things in case of emergency and imminent idiocy.

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