Oh dear

[klondike]

Better stack up on cash. Without electric cards won't work. Come to that stocks of water and pop won't last either.

[muddy]

Got two water barrels 

[klondike]

Got two water barrels

One advantage right now is that it might be too cold for them to be full of mosquito larvae

[muddy]

They have lids .

[klondike]

I still wouldn't drink it unless the other option was dieing of thirst. I live near a river and have a bucket but doubt I'd rank high in the preppers rankings with that either.

Today at 08:26:22 AM
If there should be a long term power outage it won't be fun and a lot will die. 

[JBR]

To be honest, whenever we hear of water shortages, it seems always to be darn sarf.  
Here, up in the frozen north, we seem to have more reliable water sources.

[klondike]

It's a long electricity outage that could cause the taps to stop working. A local issue would be fixed in a reasonable time anyway - its only if the brown stuff really hits the fan and there is a really widescale grid outage in which case there will be lots of other problems too.

The chances are low but the very fact there is any chance at all is the incompetence of the grid providers and successive governments allowing that chance to exist.