9 Ways I Get Water With No Power (Your Water Heater Holds About 40 Gallons)

Seven o'clock on a January night, the lights go out, and you turn on the kitchen tap. One drop, then nothing. If you're on a well, the pump stops the moment the power does. In town, your water usually keeps running, until it doesn't. My first winter on this well I was twenty, married to a lineman, and by morning I'd wasted water I didn't even know I had. Here are the nine places I get water with no power, and the biggest one is already in your house right now. 📋 FREE Fridge-Door Checklist, "Water With No Power" (all nine on one page for your fridge): https://socxly.me/28lkg1 In this video · The water still sitting in your pipes, and the straw trick that gets it out · Why the first glass from your pressure tank should be drinking water · What the toilet tank is good for, and the rule that changed · When town water turns bad: why you shut the main valve · Boiling for one minute, or eight drops of bleach per gallon · Why I store water in soda bottles, never milk jugs · Your water heater: about 40 gallons, and the four steps to drain it safely Chapters 0:00 The tap goes dry 0:50 #9 Water still in your pipes 2:38 #8 The pressure tank: drinking water first 4:28 #7 Ice trays and canned juice 6:09 #6 The toilet tank is one ready flush 7:43 #5 Boil notice? Shut the main 9:11 Half-way 9:20 #4 Boil one minute, or eight drops of bleach 11:47 Before the top three 12:04 #3 Drink first, stretch the rest 13:57 #2 Soda bottles, not milk jugs 16:19 #1 Drain the water heater 18:57 Find your drain valve tonight Tell me in the comments: What did your mother or grandmother do for water in winter? A hand pump in the yard, a cistern, a rain barrel?