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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by ramses0 on Friday May 10, 2024 @04:33PM (#40323508)
The genius move I heard of was to throw a few 5-gal jugs of water up in your attic (!!!). It's relatively shelf-stable, standardized size, and "in case of emergency" you can even use it as a gravity-flowed spout to fill smaller containers below.

I've taken to trying to have a minimal set of 4 one liter steel water bottles hung in the closet (grab + go) all the time. So convenient to be able to "just grab some water" on the way out the door, and is the start of a solid emergency prep station.

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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by scheme271 on Friday May 10, 2024 @04:56PM (#40323713)
If it's kept in plastic containers, it's probably only good for a year or so before enough stuff leaches into the water that it'll last off and funky. The time period decreases significantly if your attic gets hot (like a lot of them do).
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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by Terr_ on Friday May 10, 2024 @08:36PM (#40325089)
In that kind of emergency, I'd probably be satisfied with safe-but-distasteful as opposed to unavailable.
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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by halgir on Friday May 10, 2024 @05:06PM (#40323792)
I want my regular drinking water to be as free of microplastics as possible, but is contamination from plastic containers dangerous enough to be of any concern during an emergency situation?
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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by blincoln on Friday May 10, 2024 @04:49PM (#40323657)
If one is going to do that, I'd strongly recommend putting them in some kind of basin that can hold the water if it escapes from the jugs, or sturdier containers, or both.

At least in the US, water jugs are generally very flimsy. An attic is likely to have wide temperature variations throughout the year, and leaky water jugs up there could cause some expensive damage.

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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by nytesky on Friday May 10, 2024 @05:59PM (#40324180)
Yeah we had plastic jugs in our cool basement leak all over the concrete floor — I can’t imagine the disaster that would be to have plastic jugs in my 140F attic with resultant leaking down from the ceiling
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