Comment on Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 6 months agoI think that ‘resilience in depth’ is a reasonable idea. The NHS exists, but I still have a first aid kit at home.
In practice, I think it will be difficult fir a household to store 3 days drinking water.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 months ago
I can store 3 days worth of water but that rather assumes I have only to do it for myself. It for a large firmly would take up more space than most people have access to. You also can’t keep bottled water for very long because the plastic eventually contaminates the water. So your best bet would be to buy a water filter and keep that full and regularly refreshed, but you’re still not going to have enough water for 3 days for four people.
towerful@programming.dev 6 months ago
120 litres (4 people, 10 litres per person per day, 3 days) of water is also 120kg. Pretty unwieldy.
Bathtubs are 160 litres. So, it’s essentially storing an extra bathtub.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 6 months ago
Indeed. To be honest, I’d probably fall back on the old idea of filling the bath right up if the shit looked like it was about to hit the fan.
FatLegTed@feddit.uk 6 months ago
We have a shower :-(
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 6 months ago
Hopefully the plughole is clogged with hair