Water Preparedness, What We Do Plus More Ideas
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
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NOTE: This information is meant for educational purposes only .I am NOT a doctor nor pretend to be one. Nothing I say should be used to replace professional medical counseling. Also, PLEASE do your OWN research!
When storing water in your home, check the support structure underneath. I store gallons of water in my kitchen, as several times I have been without water. My floor started to sag and I realized the floor joists were spaced 24" apart rather than 16". Just something to consider.
Blessings on your day ❤
God is good all the time!!!
When you are storing water just remember how heavy it is going to be.
Our sermon on Sunday was about the living water of Jesus Christ. It is the only water that can satisfy. Thanks for the scripture at the end of every video. Have a super day!
Amen
Thank you for sharing...
Im in a rain forest , I live 100% off rain water, i have my rain water on tap, I use a 12v pumping system that runs on wind and solar, I can store over 13,000 gallons, I use Berkey filters for drinking water.
Thinking of you prayers for the family 🙏🙏
Thank you for sharing and updating your information. It appears that the govt is now warning us about our water systems vulnerability, so very timely as well. God bless.
You do need fresh water for the cute little doggy of yours 💕🐶
So many great ideas. We have collected rain water around the house. We also have some "jugs" that we fill and rotate... We have several family members with a pool and so between all of us...hopefully things will be good! Thanks for the ideas. Oh, And we have a "life straw" for each of us!
I still think that tanker was an excellent idea. We do have a very high water table and we have a well, but it has an electric pump. We are looking into getting a solar pump. We also have a hand pump, but haven’t installed it yet. For rain water, we have 4 food grade totes with crates that I think are 250 gallons each, and a counter top water purifier.
Praying for you and your family as always! Shalom!
Thank you! Great share. Prayers❤
TIMELY! The feds are getting more insistent about Volt Typhoon. In addition, I have 5 gal water dispensers in every bathroom and in the kitchen. I have soft 50 gal water bags in each bath tub. I have 2 40 gal trash containers in the garage. Also a dehumidifier in the basement which generates a good deal of water.
Absolutely! God is good all of the time! Continued prayers for you and your family... 🙏💕🌻🐛🌿💚
Praise GOD thank you for sharing!
Thank You Heidi for another timely reminder, knowledge and encouragement! Love and Prayers from The Catskill Mountains of NY! ❤🐓🌻☀️
Thank you for very good information
We take our trailer and go get the large 'totes' (750-gallon plastic tanks surrounded by a tubular metal frame), from a local organic bakery. All of our water tanks had agave in them. Last year, there was still some in there, and my husband tipped the tank up while I held canning jars under them and got almost 2 gallons of agave. Anyway, we hook up our rain gutters and that is how I water the garden. Our well is good, and we live where there is abundant rain, but, like you Heidi, we can have summers where it doesn't rain for a couple weeks and the grass turns brown. I buy small water pumps (I think they are 1/4 horse.....not sure) at Tractor Supply. These must have water in them before you plug the cord in or you will burn up that pump! Other than being careful about which order I do things - first turn the handle on the bottom of the tank, then plug in, this works very well, the water goes in a couple hundred feet of hose, and then I still need to spray it far to get the farthest corners of the garden. I can water animals with this, too, and fill up the kiddie pool for the dogs - but the chickens also like to drink from the kiddie pool even though they have other sources of water.
Those $12 kiddie pools are SO useful....I start plants in them in the greenhouse, fill with water, etc. And if I 'take a shower' in the greenhouse, I stand in a kiddie pool that I've drilled a drain hole in the side of. Water in a black water trough is hot enough at the end of a summer day - I have to put some cold in it. Seriously, you could scrub bacon grease off of a pan it's so hot!
I do like the idea of the thin ones for the walkway, but at the same time I know that fire fighters need so much room between houses, fencing, etc. to get their trucks in. Just a thought for city dwelling types.
Thanks Heidi 😊 ❤❤
Yahhhh..ride the gold country...my hubby and I rode our bike many times on 49...so lovely....lu in idaho
you are such a blessing!
I was about to sell my spa which we don’t use, but decided to keep it for Water Storage!
I live in the Dallas Texas area and we've had some unusual freezing situations in the past several years. Our homes were not insulated for this kind of cold, so we've had frozen pipes at home as well as our city. Since we have a little warning about the freeze, I filled my bathtub. The next morning, it was empty. While the plug works perfectly fine for a bath, it doesn't hold much longer than that. That's when I really understood redundancy and testing and being familiar with my backups. Heidi, how much of the additive do you add to the water in your rigs? Say, per liter? I've continued to use the generator you used to sell in your Etsy shop, so that's what I'm going with. Prayers for you and your family. Thank you for sharing
What is the additive? Ty
@@CG-mj8tk The subject is not allowed on UA-cam but Heidi has videos regarding this subject on rumble. This reminded me that I can go and research over there. I don't mean to be confusing but I don't want to cause any problems for the channel
@@denisescull4227 Ty!! I figured it out now ☺️
We have an above ground recreational cistern, it won't work so well in Winter but we usually have snow. We hope to add gutter rainwater collection. Ideally we'd have a source of water on the property like a stream or pond but do not. There are some nearby, but at this point I couldn't count on having access to them in an emergency.
Having multiple filtration options and knowing how to solar distill bushcraft style via evaporation and collection (I'm wondering how this could be set up in a green house as this already happens in there naturally) are good backups; and a Bison or other hand pump well are great secondary redundancies.
Love the milk tank idea!
Water is certainly important to have especially with warnings of hacking the water systems.
I have used filtered water for 30 years. I buy the BPA free bottles,I have 12 ,4 I store away in a cool dark closet. I did buy some water in mylar bags ,8oz,good forever. It doesn't rain much here but when it does I have barrels to catch it and filter it in bottles. Water is needed to survive,so to keep as much as I can. Iodine is a good idea,Heidi,thanks. I would like to have glass but heavy and they can be expensive.
Thank you for the reminder. Prayers and hugs for all of you!
Thank you Heide we are expecr ti g lots of rain for Puerto Rico and the water can get bad. Good video. Will listen well. Grateful!!!
❤ prayers for your family 🙏🏼
Thank you Heidi! Great job!
So much of what we see/read is what I call 'Wag the Dog' it's sometimes difficult to know what's real. May be best to go by that old adage, Hope for the best. Plan for the worst.
Blessings always! 💜
What is an old adage?
@@daisycofresi7252 Google definition: an old familiar saying - proverb.
@@daisycofresi7252 My apology for the delay. Seems this platform didn't like my first reply. 😄
goOgLe defines adage as a familiar saying or proverb.
Great video and I remember watching the food storage for small spaces video - that was a fantastic video as well!
God bless and continued prayers for you and yours!
Go to have you back on Heidi blessings to you
Engine 775, aka practical prepper on UA-cam, shows how to correct & filter water & a lot about solar systems
Good video, thanks for sharing YAH bless !
Great video! ❤
Thank you.
Thank you for the information Heidi. I recently started adding some shungite rocks my filtered drinking water and it seems to make it better.
Hi Heidi 👋🏻 ❤
Great ideas!
Do you have issues with biofilm?
Hope that you are doing well at this time. You’re in my prayers. God bless.
CS?
@@randpmagnuson6711 colloidal silver. I know. It took me a minute.😊
HIGH TUNNELS: Heidi, my husband did not listen to me (how unusual, she said sarcastically) about hot incredibly hot these can get. Ours is 60' long, and I wanted the sides to roll up. He went to buy the plastic and did not get it big enough. This is the third year with this plastic, and we'll probably replace it this fall. I want to get those sides rolled up! If I had it to do over again, I'd make two or three smaller ones so it would be easier to get air flow through them, and have the sides roll up. With that said, besides extending the growing season, I dry laundry in there all year, even on sunny days in winter it can be in the seventies in there. I take yogurt/bread out there to rise (covered so sun doesn't actually shine on it). I take a shower out there sometimes in summer - fun - you feel very self sufficient using solar water. In winter, I store the lawnmowers, rototiller, lawn furniture, etc. in there. AND - the cats love it. Yesterday it was about 100-degrees in there, and Rosie the older cat was lounging around on some mulch, LOL!
How did I live without one of these before? LOL! OH - someday, I will take the time to experiment with building a solar oven. It should work doubly well in a high tunnel I would guess. :)
because I live in a small apartment I storewayrt in small glass jars or any reusable watyer bottles and travelmugs i acquire
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Can you tell me how much cs you put in a half gallon of water? I was just praying the other day I would find your other video on cs in water!! Praise God you came out with a new one. Thank you so much.
Heidi love your channel since I found it. What did you use to clean your totes when you purchased it?
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We have a well, and big filtering system, that requires us to all salt to a tank. Can that water be used to ferment? GOD Bless Y'All Always~
My husband, Mr. Good-Enough-No-I'm-Not-Researching-It, connected 4 blue 55 gallon barrels to the shed with the metal roof, but unfortunately, they just collect, spill over, and never get flushed or filtered. And he's just placed some black garden weed barrier on top so leaves don't fall in. Meaning: there is no system there. I can't make heads or tales of all the rainwater catchment I've read. Too technical for me. I wish someone would explain SIMPLY exactly what is needed to put up two barrels like yours and keep the water moving and fresh enough to filter to drink. Step A, step B, etc. Not a lot of explanation, just how-to. Like a diagram of the minimum to safe and simple system.
I need that also!
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What do you do to prevent the water from going stagnate?
I'm looking at the vertical planters and wondering if you have a video on what you grow in them and what's better, the weaved? I don't understand the difference lol. Is it mainly for herbs and berries? Thank you so much for all the valuable information. We have absolutely no space at all for storage 😢
If you are asking about the "basket weave" pattern on the tower planters... it is just for a "pretty design"... color or pattern does not make a difference in how well the plants grow. But towers are containers... it is important to check the soil moisture very often... they dry out a little faster than ground planted. Hope this helps... 🌻🐛🌿💚
Also when we were in our old house (TINY) We used two large totes with lids as end tables by our couch... we put a piece of plywood matching the top and covered it with a cloth. Stored a lot of things in them. Got the idea from a friend who stacked her boxes of canning jars beside her couch and covered with a cloth. No one even knew what was there.
@@marking-time-gardens thank you so much! It does help 🤗
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Curious, water for toilets? Would you store it or do you have outhouse system.?
I would be curious about how you clean used glass jugs. I like the idea of recycling but I can't get passed the idea of an opening I can't reach inside and scrub.
I make wine and use these a lot. Get a bottle brush made for wine bottles. You can even bend the bristle section to curve a little to accommodate the jug. I use Oxyclean no-bleach. It has a green top.
@liteweightpup2561 thank you!
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Can I PC water in quarts or Pints with CS for storage? How much per each size? I have not heard of using CS before in saved water. We live tiny & do not have much storage space & water is a huge worry for me.
Filtering water and storing it in gallon jars or quart jars…an easy way to rotate through that water is to use it when canning. It’s a great way to store water in your quart and pint jars when they’re not being used for food storage. 🫙🫙🫙
An excellent suggestion! Thanks!
I was thinking. I have some tattler lids I don't use due to the risk of failure to seal. Could I use those to can water in the same load as rings and lids on food? I wouldn't be wasting food if they fail to seal.
How much cs do you put into your stainless steel water containers. Your ratio of water to cs in glass containers?
What is cs?
@@happy_times01colloidal silver
Please read her community page....
Colloidal silver.
Do you put anything in your gallon glass bottles?
Do you guys still sell the CS brewers?
You may want to verify/confirm but I’m under the impression that rain catchment systems are illegal in WA state without a permit…
wonder if i should used my 5 gallon carboys to store water. how do i close the hole?? will that be safe? Thank you
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe some solid bungs? Then I can pump out the water when I need to use the carboy for wine.
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By "CS" do you mean CDS?
Good homestead video, but the reality is when you speak preparedness and you also mentioned renewable. Unfortunately theres no preparedness mindset in homesteading because it is not renewable. I wish i was as lucky as you to have all what you do so i don't have to go into those demonic stores, but in a sense I maybe more blessed in these last days without, because my mindset since 2015 has been bushcraft survival, because until the day Christ returns and there is an absolute burning up of the earth, nature will always provide a renewable source. I train myself with (Exodus 16 Kjv) I do the oppisite of storing up, because it soon runs out. The only reason I store certain foods and water is so I don't have to go in those gastly satanic stores, but alot of my food mostly vegetables and medicine I can't get in the supermarket I forage from the wild. So my advice to people is learn a fire starting technuiqe like bow or hand drilling, also buy a magnify glass, and the day they cut off peoples water or like some places where I am the water is contaminated. You can find you nearest river and boil it on a fire. I'm not at that point yet, but i'm waiting for the terrible day, that's if I make it till he returns because my health has taking quite a battering in the last few years so probally best he takes me out before that terrible day.
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