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Preparing Yourself for the Next Disaster: Water Storage Part II

October 23, 2017 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

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Congratulations! The simple fact that you’re reading about water storage puts you ahead of the pack. Believe me, it takes work to figure this stuff out for your family. My goal is to share with you what I’ve learned to help you create your own plan. I’ve broken my water plan into three phases: short, intermediate, and long-term storage.

Your short-term needs may last from two hours up to three days and can be covered by heading to your grocery store today. I want you to be able to satisfy your short-term needs right away should you lose access to water by the time you’re done reading this sentence. This is the easy stuff, as I write here: “I like having a number of options including: small water bottles, pints of water, gallons of water and larger containers (2.5 gallons or 5 gallons).”

Next, I’m thinking about water storage for the next couple of weeks or the intermediate term. “Here’s the numbers. At a minimum, you want to have at least one gallon per day per person to be able to survive in relative comfort. A gallon will provide the two quarts for drinking and two for light sanitation and cooking. But my thinking is, if you’re going to store water, why not be on the safe side? In places that are hot and muggy like Houston and Florida you’ll need to have it, as I explain here. For my family of four with a dog and a cat, my target is fifteen gallons per day or 220 gallons for two-weeks.

Finally, my long-term goal for water storage isn’t really storage. It is to use natural resources such as a river or water reservoir. If you don’t have access to a natural resource or a well, then you want to store as much as your physical property will allow. This is where you need to simply do as much as you can to improve your situation.

Please note, prices for water storage solutions have been all over the map in my research. Some prices are ten times what they should be because of increased demand from recent natural disasters. For example, I like the AquaPodKit for emergency water storage. It’s a 65-gallon one-time use, plastic liner for your bathtub that you fill before a storm. It’s back-ordered here for a reasonable $23.95. I’ve ordered one and who knows when I’ll get it, but stay away from the retailers selling it for $300. I’ll explain more in a future post.

Read my ongoing series on water storage at Yoursurvivalguy.com. 

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E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy
E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998.

E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention.

E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zildjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.

Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@yoursurvivalguy.com

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