I live in south Anne Arundel county MD. No municipal water here, wells only. Back in 2012 when the derecho came through. I lost power for three days. No power means no water. Three days of no power = three days of no flushing. I did not get a hotel room. Of course i was younger then. Still not sure how I got through that.
Oh, and my father used to run the D.C. water department. Not that you asked.
Yep, we’re also on a well. I made sure everybody in the family understood that when the power is out, each toilet is only guaranteed good for one flush.
It was worse when we had a fill valve designed to shut off if the pressure dropped, so if somebody forgot and flushed, when power came back I had to go and baby that thing until the pressure returned. (Had it replaced, no longer an issue.)
PSA gleaned from the NYT a while back: You don't need water to flush a toilet. After Sandy, some people used their reserve of chablis until service was restored.
I live in Asheville, NC. When Hurricane Helene blasted our city back into back into the 1800s we had no water for almost 4 weeks. Electricity was out for longer but we have a generator. A hot tub (no longer hot) provided water for flushing. This may actually be the best use for a hot tub.
Under the forced choice I said woman and women are better. I was NOT raised to believe this; bitter experience sort of led me this way. Shouting that men are better kept me in the dark for a long time.
I have saved around 15 huge empty cat litter jugs. I put water in all of them in anticipation of hurricane bringing down our municipal water system. Thanks to my preparedness I have yet to need them.
If you live on a well, you're always prepared for a water stoppage. Keep a BIG plastic container of water on hand at all times (available at Tractor Supply, Lowe's, etc.), keep it full, renew and/or change the water from time to time, use sparingly when necessary. If you have a bathtub and a plentiful supply of produce bags (you always save them when you bring them home from the grocery store, right?), you should not be discommoded (ha, ha!) from either function when the water goes off. If you have plastic bags and a good slotted spoon, you can even continue to use the nonflushable toilet.
Could not honestly answer this. Have known such horrible and such wonderful examples of each. Trump is so bad he is pulling his side of the scale down single- handedly though.
This event was nothing of note when I was growing up in Puerto Rico in the 60s. We were more concerned about rats swimming their way up the sewer pipe. Needless to say, the toilet lid was always closed when it was not in use.
Women are better for the simple reason that they get the short end of the stick in terms of social and gender expectations. Strength from adversity. We’ve seen what happens when men are allowed to live their lives obliviously, especially if they’re white.
Whether any one gender is better or not than another for any other reason is not a debate I wish to touch with a ten foot pole.
Notice that as of now, no woman has voted that men are better. Meaning that women are definitely smarter than men. And we know it.
THE RESULTS ARE INCREDIBLY GREAT.
I'm the woman who voted that men are better -- BY MISTAKE!!! Why can't we edit our mistakes when we click the wrong button?????
I was surprised to think Gene had a tradwife or the like in his audience.
I thought it was a man who was trying to skew the votes.
I live in south Anne Arundel county MD. No municipal water here, wells only. Back in 2012 when the derecho came through. I lost power for three days. No power means no water. Three days of no power = three days of no flushing. I did not get a hotel room. Of course i was younger then. Still not sure how I got through that.
Oh, and my father used to run the D.C. water department. Not that you asked.
Yep, we’re also on a well. I made sure everybody in the family understood that when the power is out, each toilet is only guaranteed good for one flush.
It was worse when we had a fill valve designed to shut off if the pressure dropped, so if somebody forgot and flushed, when power came back I had to go and baby that thing until the pressure returned. (Had it replaced, no longer an issue.)
Women are better and smarter. And yet, they keep on marrying men.
PSA gleaned from the NYT a while back: You don't need water to flush a toilet. After Sandy, some people used their reserve of chablis until service was restored.
Failing that, just spit in the tank until it’s full again.
I live in Asheville, NC. When Hurricane Helene blasted our city back into back into the 1800s we had no water for almost 4 weeks. Electricity was out for longer but we have a generator. A hot tub (no longer hot) provided water for flushing. This may actually be the best use for a hot tub.
Women (I am a woman) are better. This is not a debate and is not open to discussion. There is no question-and-answer period.
Under the forced choice I said woman and women are better. I was NOT raised to believe this; bitter experience sort of led me this way. Shouting that men are better kept me in the dark for a long time.
I have found that, in general, women are better at remembering Rule #7: Don't panic too early as it is never too late to panic.
What happened to the "both women and men leave much to be desired" option?
what happened to the "women are better in some ways and at some things and men are better in some ways and at some things" option?
I have saved around 15 huge empty cat litter jugs. I put water in all of them in anticipation of hurricane bringing down our municipal water system. Thanks to my preparedness I have yet to need them.
If you live on a well, you're always prepared for a water stoppage. Keep a BIG plastic container of water on hand at all times (available at Tractor Supply, Lowe's, etc.), keep it full, renew and/or change the water from time to time, use sparingly when necessary. If you have a bathtub and a plentiful supply of produce bags (you always save them when you bring them home from the grocery store, right?), you should not be discommoded (ha, ha!) from either function when the water goes off. If you have plastic bags and a good slotted spoon, you can even continue to use the nonflushable toilet.
Don’t the jugs make fantastic decorations wherever they are kept?
I am a man and I think we all suck equally.
Could not honestly answer this. Have known such horrible and such wonderful examples of each. Trump is so bad he is pulling his side of the scale down single- handedly though.
This event was nothing of note when I was growing up in Puerto Rico in the 60s. We were more concerned about rats swimming their way up the sewer pipe. Needless to say, the toilet lid was always closed when it was not in use.
We do the same but only because one of the cats has no standards.
Women are better for the simple reason that they get the short end of the stick in terms of social and gender expectations. Strength from adversity. We’ve seen what happens when men are allowed to live their lives obliviously, especially if they’re white.
Whether any one gender is better or not than another for any other reason is not a debate I wish to touch with a ten foot pole.
City folks. You act like if there is no water from the street that your fancy porcelain latrine will not accept contributions.
On TV the other day it was noted that American Standard Brands is headquartered in Piscataway, NJ. Would that be a geoaptonym?