[BOBtheBUTCHER]

Its been a very long cold winter and due to the temperature being below -30C for months and hitting the -40c to -50c on a regular basis the ground frost is down to almost 10 feet this year causing numerous breaks in pipes.

http://www.saskatoon.ca/FORUM/News ...CONTRIBUTESTOHIGHNUMBEROFWATERMAINBREAKS.aspx

What has raised my eyebrow is the city only has 7 emergency water trailers and was having to physically deliver culligan water to affected customers.
Showers are being offered at city sports centers in the mean time.
I know for a fact a bunch of people who have no water have nothing and I mean nothing in stock at home and are either having deliveries or hitting the stores.
This is a reasonably small amount of people but if it was a much higher volume I can see panic buying happening very quickly.
A number of areas were also on a boil advisory.
I still shake my head at the lack of basic storage people seem to do.

 

[MikeK]

Its been a very long cold winter and due to the temperature being below -30C for months and hitting the -40c to -50c on a regular basis the ground frost is down to almost 10 feet this year causing numerous breaks in pipes.

http://www.saskatoon.ca/FORUM/News ...CONTRIBUTESTOHIGHNUMBEROFWATERMAINBREAKS.aspx

What has raised my eyebrow is the city only has 7 emergency water trailers and was having to physically deliver culligan water to affected customers.
Showers are being offered at city sports centers in the mean time.
I know for a fact a bunch of people who have no water have nothing and I mean nothing in stock at home and are either having deliveries or hitting the stores.
This is a reasonably small amount of people but if it was a much higher volume I can see panic buying happening very quickly.
A number of areas were also on a boil advisory.
I still shake my head at the lack of basic storage people seem to do.

Yet the others keep telling us how mainstream prepping has become. And how EVERYONE has weeks of food in their cupboards, etc.

You and I know better. But some people have blinders on and refuse to see what's all around them, despite many such warnings.

 

[SunwolfNC]

I've got enough water for us for about...2 months for us? It's not enough...
I'm still on the fence about trying to broach the readiness topic to my immediate neighbors, but I know that numbers are better in dire situations.. still.. I'm trying to do something, and have stores saved up. For those not doing anything, even the shortest outage/interruption in The Infrastructure(tm) will be immediate and impactful. They'll be in the streets in hours...

 

[wldrbob]

WE HAVE SNOW melted snow is water ...seems simple to me

 

[charliemeyer007]

The sad part is most of them will not take the hint and stock some stuff for their own use. The guberment will rescue me. As soon as the cirrus is over it will be out of mind and replaced with the really important stuff like Bieber antics or Kardashin's drama.

 

[DELMARVA]

Not sure where your located..but all I can say
Is let this be a valuable lesson to all of them.

 

[BOBtheBUTCHER]

Not sure where your located..but all I can say
Is let this be a valuable lesson to all of them.

Saskatchewan and I'm pretty sure no one will remember this next week

 

[Lylac_Krazy]

This should serve as a public alert. I see a lot of infrastructure is old and starting to fail.
water mains are one of those things that people seem to take for granted.
Keep an eye on those guys that flush out the water pipes.
with the aging of the infrastructure, its real easy to open or close a water main quickly, and water hammer the pipe, blowing it out. water hammer in a main is a really bad idea as water don't compress so well.

 

[FalconsBravesHawks]

WE HAVE SNOW melted snow is water ...seems simple to me

I agree, BUT you still want to boil that. I ate snow all the time as a kid, but I keep hearing how dirty it really is. Who the heck knows though...as I surely have never taken a snow sample to a lab for analysis.

 

[KevinGr]

I'm in the group of those with inadequate water stored for emergencies that would last more than a week. That's one of my many reasons for joining this website.
Living in fear is not living at all.

 

[DELMARVA]

Saskatchewan and I'm pretty sure no one will remember this next week

Sad but true, lets Hope it wakes some folks up.