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The river, snow melt water, a 12v pump, a 300+ gallon tote, and several Katadyn base camp filters.
Plus a always full tote on my back patio.

Solar powered Watergen.

Yep, same here. Gotta kick the moose out of it sometimes, but it's always there.
Glad we don't live like 99% of the rest of America.

High Noon I got stuck in El Paso for 3 days over the Fourth of July, in 2016. I was at that big Flying J truck stop east side of town. On the night of the Fourth, the fireworks were fantastic! All of El Paso, and Juarez were laid out before us, and the Mexicans were blowing up more big rockets than the Americans did. For 3 or 4 hours it was fantastic!

I live a couple hundred yards from the Willamette River. All you can drink, and all the tootsie rolls you can eat (after a major rainstorm).

I also have a couple of 275 gallon food grade IBC totes that I catch rainwater in. I keep bleach, iodine, and fuel on hand for boiling if needed.

It's not a matter of if, but when, we'll get a good enough quake here to disrupt utilities for quite some time. Might as well be as ready as possible I guess.

No shortage of water or water sources in Aleutian Hell. The water table at up north house is only 12ft on an underground stream. My house well is hand-driven.

Mountain springs everywhere around here. Well at the cabin, spring over the hill from it.

I'll just use a bucket
Plenty nearby

90 foot well, only problem is it's sulfur water, but if one is thirsty enough, it's drinkable. I have one of the old fashioned water buckets that I can use to draw water with if it ever gets to that. There are also several springs on my farms, and they run year round. Finding water would be the least of my worries.

Sandy by generator, 1000 gal tank of fuel. We good for a while

The only water I'm worried about falls from the sky.


We have a river, a creek, multiple wells, and my wife is still hoarding bottled water.


Those f'ing fear monger podcasts....lol

I have artisen 120 foot for my house, but have a shallow well point and hand pump for the garden that will work

I bet your cows pizz in that river.

You'd better check that link out for the bailer on a rope.
You can buy that chunk of 3 inch PVC AND a 10 inch pulley for just $250.00.
A thirsty man will find that money well spent.

I walked down and looked at the recent water hole.

Took a pic for management.

Good spot, ice is pretty much gone.

My well overflows year round, top is 3ft above grade. I can siphon if need be. Pond is another option, 1.25 acre and 16ft deep. There is a creek down below that runs most of the year. Water is really no problem.

Get your koolaid packets and iodine tabs ready to drink streams and rivers.

Make a recording of the sounds a generator makes.

Keep your freezer stocked with marauders.

If you wanted to use a 4 foot section of pvc pipe to draw water from your well, yes you would need to get the existing pipe out of the way. And I Imagine that would be difficult to do without the equipment that a well drilling company has.

But,you would not need to pull the entire pipe, and the pump from the well. My well is 505 feet deep. But the water is at 210 feet. All we would have to do is pull that 2 inch pipe up, get ten feet out of the well and saw it off. Then pull up ten feet more and saw. Cut the wire. Do that 22 times, and let the pipe go. The pump will go to the bottom of the well, and you will have 10 feet of clearance between the top of the pipe and the water.

With the pump underwater the entire time, it would not be nearly as heavy as a pump out in the air. Not sure but I think 2 or 3 guys could do this by hand.

As for retrieving the pipe and pump, once society had returned to normal, no problem the well drilling companies can easily retrieve a pipe and pump from a well.

water table is close enough here I can drive a point down 30 feet or so and attach a pitcher pump ,and get all I need