Hurricane Season – Water

You probably already have 30 gallons of fresh drinking water stored in your home. That’s enough for most families for nearly 10 days!

Most people in the U.S. have a 30 gallon water heater in a utility closet somewhere full of perfectly usable drinking water.

I found this handy PDF with good instructions on how to access and use that water safely.

This is a huge advantage, and being able to share this knowledge with neighbors during a crisis is critical. I’d recommend practicing this technique sometime as a method of determining what exactly you will need to buy to extract the water from your tank.

Most people will need at a minimum 1 garden hose, and 1- 5 gallon bucket for storing the extracted water.