Drinking water after hurricane

I keep hearing on the news how places hit by hurricanes are without drinking water. But isn't water the big thing a hurricane is made out of? People saw the hurricane coming and went out and bought supplies and food and boarded up their homes, so there was plenty of time. So wouldn't it be a basic thing to put out some clean buckets to catch the rain as it came down and then use that for drinking water afterwards? When 15" of rain is coming down out of the sky, it wouldn't take long for contaminants in the air to be removed. Then the water, which is clean, falls into the buckets without coming into contact with anything else first that would contaminate it.

Since water is probably THE most important thing to have for life, this would seem like a very basic prep to do when facing a hurricane.

 

Buckets would blow away in the wind before they have a chance to fill. Wind comes before the rain. Maybe weight them down?

 

Sure! Weight them down by putting a clean weight inside would work. Maybe use a really heavy bucket.
It sure seems like an easy way to have clean water when the hurricane is over. Plenty of water will come from the hurricane itself and cause problems. Why not capture some of it and put it to good use in making things easier afterward?

 

Weighing down a bucket is not going to suffice. If a car can be moved by the winds, a bucket hasn't a chance.

You can't believe the force of a hurricane until you've experienced one up close and personal.

 

People don't look ahead? And the media's idea of "without water" is "without the ability to watch this broadcast"?

 

I tried to give away numerous bottles of Instant water a while back to aid in preparedness planning; All you had to do was ad water and screw the cap back on. I just made the suggestion that it would be a better vintage if you filled them before the storm.

While you could possibly plan ahead and devise a Rube Goldberg method of catching side-ways rain and keeping it stationary and debris free until the mosquitoes started breeding, It is much simpler to get numerous containers of potable drinking water stored in advance of 180 mph winds, Just saying.

@ghrit , we could design a survivalist rain trap that operates in 180 mph winds, Dee can talk Mike into manufacturing them, Get that Survival store guy to run Hurricane specials on them, Get those bearded duck-hunters from Duck Dynasty to set one up at the duck blind ( talk about some fast wing shooting...) and get as rich as Donald Trump. Then we can buy the Presidency and turn this place back into a democratic Republic.

 

Set em in concrete on a stainless 40-40 pipe. Hey Melbo, one of those big wind generator farmss ever took a hurricane direct hit yet?

 

Awesome Sec!
May years ago, my former partner in a diving company was a phd physicist working for DOT developing optics for tReagan's Star Wars Initiative for Oak Ridge Associated Universities. I was invited to the lab for a test where they fired a laser for a nano second that had underground capacitors that took bleeding four hydro-electric plants two weeks to charge. It was routed through 28 miles of optics inside the lab, a building so large that it actually mists rain inside on occasion. They burned a hole through a six inch thick ceramic fire-brick in one thousandth of a second and created a clap of thunder inside the building when the air was vaporized. Wonder if that excess power was stored?

 

Here's the answer to your question. It makes to much sense to look ahead. People these days have had it to easy for to long. So looking ahead for basic survival supplies , stuff that is so readily available by turning a valve, or on a store shelf , is not a priority any more. I'm not as prepped as I should be. I've got enough to keep me going till I can start harvesting what I need, maybe a little more. But I'm getting better, the shelves are getting fuller. But I've got enough ammo for my grandkids , grandkids to harvest their food , if they don't play around. The things we take for granted nowadays was a way of life not more than 40 years ago.

 

Filling a water bucket in a hurricane is easy.

Just hold it up sideways. You'll get a bucket and a half of water in no time a'tall!

 

This kind of stuff is way above my pay grade , but very telling of the technology we've got, that many don't know about.

 

How about just a normal roof rain water collection system.
Your cistern will be full long before the 150mph winds show up and rip off your roof.

 

Boy, These hurricane party's sure have changed i guess?
We cook, play cards, tell jokes and story's and beer, Did I mention beer , mixed drinks and pop for the kids
If you want water just stick your face into the wind, close your eyes and open your mouth.
Kinda of what we call a Quak-sol-lai, The kind of bird that stands in the ditch and turns its head up and opens its beak during a thunderstorm.
Some have been known to drown that way!

 

People laugh at my collection of 2 liter soda bottles............ Some day I will laugh at them for not having a collection of 2 liter soda bottles