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From: "Geo"
"Antti Kurenniemi" wrote in
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> A couple of years ago we had 2 days without power. It was cold, but the
> house warms well with wood, and we can even cook with fire (to some extent
> at least), but my problem was water - my well is a drill-hole, where the
> water level is about 15 meters below ground surface, in a hole that's
maybe
> 15 centimeters in diameter, so there's no way to get water from it without
> the pump working. Also, nobody really buys water from the stores here, so
> the few small bottles that they had were sold probably during the first
> fifteen minutes.
I'm going to assume you needed water to flush the toilet, because we are
all aware you drink beer not water.
I have a well too, we go down to the creek that runs across my land to get
water to flush with, well we used to before I got the second generator, now
we can power the pump when needed.
Geo.
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