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Re:Disaster prepping is mainstream again by e40 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:51PM (#25060760)
I can beat that. Here 45 years, same.

I do agree about your risk assessment. For water, those who have water heaters (rather than tankless systems) have a ready supply of drinkable water. Assuming that it isn't damaged/inaccessible after the earthquake. But, it is also possible a separate storage of water could be inaccessible after an earthquake.

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Re:Disaster prepping is mainstream again by bigtunacan on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @08:33PM (#25065369)
We had a twenty year old water heater that finally called it quits this past spring. My wife and I discussed paying the extra cost to "upgrade" to a tankless water heater. In the end our frugal nature won and we put in another cheaper tank heater.

Then in August we were hit by a Derecho (an inland hurricane). The entire city was without power for more than 10 days (some much longer) and temperatures in the upper nineties. The one saving grace was I still had a working water heater since it's gas powered.

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