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echo: barktopus
to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Geo
date: 2005-09-05 12:31:36
subject: Re: Katrina: deep thoughts

From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:431be561$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> 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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