Living without flowing water

[johns0]

Anybody here live with having no water running through the house and have to get it from wells and other sources?I just went 3 days without water in my house and i now truly appreciate having water when ever i want and not worry about wasting some in case i needed it later.

I guess what i am saying is i take for granted the small luxuries we get until they are taken away.

[vhelp]

I hear ya. I take electric for granted too.

I live in an all eletric apt. Some day, I will be off the grid or i'll settle for halfway off. I'm tired of being at the mercy. I get turned off about 3 times a year, two or three days. Winters are murder. I was turned off last year when it was in the single digits and now know what it feels like to have muscles cramp up in a know--very painful, like pulling a muscle. Induring in very cold weather for long periods of time is not good, not for my age anyway, not that old but am slowly getting there. Well, anyway, I keep telling myself that i'm going to build me a mini generator, and, .. you get the picture. But, I dream a lot these days

-vhelp 5271

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[Noahtuck]

Oh i feel you!!

The longest i ever went was a day and it sucked!!!!

And also with the electric!!

I've never had it go off where i live for more then 5-6 hours and thankfully never during the winter!!

My mom lives down the road from me about 1/4 of a mile and one of my older brothers about a mile tha same way. One summer one of the big transformers/grids where i live went down for like 3 days and it started on the next road over going away from my road towards my mom and brother.

My brother brought over two huge standup freezers and put them in my garage to store all my mom's food and his for the few days the power was out.

After that he had my dad wire in a big ass generator to his house so if it ever happened again he could just flip a switch and start up the gen.

Okay, the funny thing that comes to mind about water and power

I have lived in the same house now for about 17 years, where i lived before that and now, we always had city water.
No well water, so if we ever lost power the water always still worked, because of no well pump.

A few summers ago the power went out for like 3 hours, me and my son were sitting at the kitchen table messing with a laptop because it obviously has batteries, and had it plugged into the phone line for dialup!!

My daughter stops over and goes, why are you guys sitting at the kitchen table with the laptop ?
And we go ummmm... there's no power!!!

So she goes to the bathroom, a few minutes later she comes out and goes, i can't flush the toilet because the power is out can i ?

Me and my son look at each other and i look at her and go, YEAH!!
When is the last time you saw a toilet with an electrical cord & plugged into an outlet!!!


She still gets pissed when we bring it up

[johns0]

I'm used to power going out a few times a year due to snow and wind storms,thing is you know its gonna get fixed in a few hours to a few days where as water problems you gotta repair yourself or hire someone to fix it.

[Noahtuck]

I'm used to power going out a few times a year due to snow and wind storms,thing is you know its gonna get fixed in a few hours to a few days where as water problems you gotta repair yourself or hire someone to fix it.

Oh yeah if it's in your house or on your property.

Do you have well water or city water ?

The only time i had a water problem it was in the main line down the road so the county had to fix it because it affected a bunch of people.

But i know where i live, a certain amount of feet into my yard and it's my problem if anything happens.

[M Bruner]

I had to go to another country where the shower was across the street.

[johns0]

I got city water or more like small town water,the water line was replaced about 20 years ago or so,before i moved in,the plastic 3/4 inch hose was routed along side the house and bent into a hole thru the basement,where the hose was bent the it cracked finally.

What i did was put in a 90 degree coupler so there's no strain on the hose,took 3 days for the leak to show.

[thecoalman]

When is the last time you saw a toilet with an electrical cord & plugged into an outlet!!!
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Well pump?

Heat isn't trouble here, we have coal boiler but that requires electric to run. It will do some heat for a few hours once the electric goes out however we have standby hand fired unit big enough to keep pipes from freezing etc. Won't be really warm but won't be freezing either.

Almost 4000 sq. foot excluding basement which is reasonably warm, $1500 a year including domestic hot water in Northeastern Pennsylvania. 8)

The old girl is going to be 30 years old soon, be 50 when it gets replaced/refurbished.



You can get large hand fired units even boilers:

[Noahtuck]

When is the last time you saw a toilet with an electrical cord & plugged into an outlet!!!
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Well pump?

But i also said in reference to my daughter,

I have lived in the same house now for about 17 years, where i lived before that and now, we always had city water.
No well water, so if we ever lost power the water always still worked, because of no well pump.

:P