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Ah. I actually thought filling the bathtub was a measure to mitigate the effects of the heat wave and maybe the radiation as well.
by sudhirj 9y ago
Ah. I actually thought filling the bathtub was a measure to mitigate the effects of the heat wave and maybe the radiation as well.
- jngreenlee 9y agoActually I read as to conserve water, predicting a possible water outage after infrastructure is taken out
- komali2 9y agoI think it's so if you survive, you have clean drinking water for when the infrastructure has failed and you're waiting for rescue.
- torstenvl 9y agoThis is exactly the thought. Water is the #1 survival necessity but an enormously fragile resource. Electricity can go out, pipes can burst, water supplies can be tainted. Some people keep years worth of canned food around but almost nobody has a year's supply of water.
- sjg007 9y agoDon't forget that the water heater has 50 gallons in it.
- greggman 9y agonot in Japan. Japanese water heaters are on demand heaters. I love them becahse unlike US style tank based heaters Japanese on demand heaters never run out of hot water.
- sjg007 9y agoOk but maybe it’s worth having a two stage system? In the event of the apocalypse.. Also a high school will have massive water heaters and a chiller..
- BurningFrog 9y agoUntil the WHOLE SYSTEM runs out of water.
- komali2 9y agoNot in my apartment unit, it's one of those fancy in-line ones that let me run a shower long enough to rack up a hefty electricity bill.
- carlmr 9y agoThen I get poisoned because I didn't clean my bathtub as a often as I should.
- mter 9y agoFilling the tub provides you with drinking water and water to flush the toilet. It's standard practice in hawaii when a hurricane/tsunami is inbound.