Boil Water Notice

Main waterline break, possibly contaminated water?  Life is Crap - so drink more Wine.

On the surface, sounds pretty do-able.  "Therefore, as a precaution, we advise that all water used for drinking, cooking, making ice, brushing teeth or washing dishes be boiled. A rolling boil of one minute is sufficient. As an alternative bottled water may be used."

Oh, and must boil water for the puplets to drink.  And, oh my gosh does Cannon love his water.  I think Cannon alone needs two gallons of water a day.  The hurricane preparedness recommendation is a minimum 1 gallon water per person per day.  We don't even have that ... Fail!

Hubs and I have been through hurricanes and the aftermath.  Without power and utilities.  Why then are we finding life is normal, just boil your water,  so tough? 

Our troubles started with, "If our wonderful neighbors had not told us, how would we have known?"  Ok, so we are now signed up for e-alerts.  Cool invention that is.

We find this out right at dinner time.  So we boil up a couple gallons of water.  Empty the ice maker bin to cool the water.  Boyo Cannon of the loves his water bowl also begs for ice cubes.  He got the football sized mass of melded ice cubes and picked the whole shebang up and chewed it all.

Dinner had already been planned to be pretty quick and easy.  But wait, hmmm ---- need to clean veggies.  Well, okay put some water in another bowl and scrub away.  Water for tea, for coffee, to brush teeth.  Water for night time meds.  By the time we went to bed we are down a gallon.

Next morning, breakfast time.

Fruit for breakfast?  What, and boil yet more water?  And cool it how?  Can't use the ice today.

Time for a cool drink.  Ice?  Nope.  Tea or juice diluted with cold water?  Nope.  Snacks from the garden?  Raw veggies?  Nope, gotta wash them.

Baby veggie plants and tomato plants need water.  Faucet?  Heck no, we are going to be eating those - raw.  Thank goodness for rain barrels.

Wash dishes?  Does our dish washer have a sanitary cycle?  No?  Well then not.

Second night dinner was a big huge pot of chicken vegetable soup.  I boiled the water first, added a chicken carcass, let it boiling roll for a several minutes then lowered the temp to simmer for the entire afternoon.  Most of the veggies came from the freezer.  The few from the garden used up some of the precious boiled water to wash and rinse.

Tomorrow I'm going out to buy bottled water and bagged ice.  Wonder how far I'll need to go to find it?  Maybe we need to start thinking about Emergency Water Storage?

There is a zombie on your yard.

Are you prepared?