One day we all the sudden had no water it had been shut off and my husband was so concerned about not being able to flush the toilet We had a 55 -gallon barrel outside that caught rain water I told him no problem with the toilet but drinking water was another subject. I think everyone should be prepared for when things happen you never know when you need water or food do the weather or some unfortunate issue
I was on a well in WA state for over 11 1/2 years. Kept gallon jugs of non potable water for toilets. Kept gallon jugs of drinking water. If the power went out we had no well.. once the drinking gallons were used we kept them filled and stored. Power went out a lot but longest was 7 hours. My sister in law outside of Salem, Oregon said a few years ago during an ice storm they were without power for 12 days. Yikes.
Years ago during a drought, we were told to only use the toilet when there were “brown swimmers”. The kids learned the poem: if it’s brown, flush it down. If it’s yellow, let it mellow. This went on all summer.
Great ideal, always gotta keep 2 steps ahead of the needs, It's to easy to just take for granted the every day pleasures.. We live in a mobile home for 2 years now, feels SO GOOD to actually own it, but we had to make plans and keep emergency bags ready to pick up and go.. Harder than you know when you have a special needs daughter who has to have trech supplies to keep her alive.. So freaked out , we even purchased contractors helmets for head protection. . O.k. I may be WEIRD, but to me it's like preventive medecine..😮
I assume you have gas for cooking if your power went out. You could boil your collected water for dishes and cooking and drinking but sounds like you have a filter system for purifying water. Great thinking.
Thank you for this video my heart really goes out to you and your family. I’ve been through this before and Man you really don’t realize how bad you need water until it’s fine😮
Hope they found the leak by now, but it did force you to think about things and a solution at the same time. We're on rural water too, but have 2 wells in our pastures for livestock. The problem the past 10+ years is finding someone who is willing or able to work on the pump if they go out. I guess it's a dying art with younger generations...
Sorry about the water. Yes we are resourceful when we need to be. Don’t forget your pool water too. The thing I’m most concerned about is the electrical grid. Cause in a major whatever the gas generators will run out of fuel and the propane will only last til your tank is empty. So I’m thinking solar is the only way but not sure which one.
Before modern plumbing people had an outhouse. People had simple wells folks took a bath Saturday night to be "fresh" for church on Sunday morning. . Folks heated water on the wood stove and filled a galvanized water trough that everyone bathed in. Kids first up to the men.. that's where the expression "Don't throw baby out with the wash water" came from. People been using rainwater since forever 😛God bless y'all. ❤
Only the order of baths were opposite.....children last and the water so bad the baby isn't seen so is thrown out with the dirty water. Don't try to tell me that wasn't so...I was 8th to the tub of water and the last.
I live in Kenya and I've seen moms tell the kids to go bathe in the ocean water near the mosque so they will be fresh and clean when they go to the mosque in a few hours. The mosque is located at the mouth of a tributary that leads into a salt water river with huge sand dunes. Good luck
We have our water turned off a bunch. I have gallons of water put up for the toilet. They turn it off and have no warning. Love you all so much! Continued prayers! God bless
You have heard I am sure that "a country boy can survive". You can always figure out a way. If it comes to it you can haul water from the pond to flush with. One year we had a heavy wet snow storm, took our power out for over 2 weeks. I had buckets, pots, dish pans any thing that would hold water under every drip off the house I could find. Melted clean snow for drinking and cooking. Found out I could cook a lot on a kerosene heater. Hopefully in the near future you can have your own well. Its just a problem with the power goes out. God bless you all and your little community.
Even tho our small area has a well it was put in yrs ago & our water gets shut off more times than we can count over last 6yrs. We keep 20 2 litter bottles full of water for our 4 dogs, 5 & 3 gallon water about 100 gallons in total in our house at ALL TIMES‼️ I make sure all my 6 potbelly girls & my 4 Nigeria goats full of water 2-3 times a day because of this. Our Wild Firer Dept has water we can get just up our dirt road. I would be thrilled tho if we got rain. Today 6/5/24 its to be 102 in Wittmann, Arizona. But we live in desert. Since husband sent 26yrs as a Phoenix Police Officer we wanted peace & quiet as well as people. Stay safe🙏❤
Do you know of Hansen Never Done farms? They have a plastic tank that holds 325 gallons of rain water with a pipe that runs from the gutter and a faucet at the bottom to connect a hose for watering. I thought that might be a good idea for you. God bless you all 💞
I'm sure you haven't considered this, but it is very dangerous for children to play in the rain when it is lightening. My best friend's Dad was struck by lightening in their yard and he died.
Everyone should have a water catchment. I don’t have one but I’ve been shopping around to find a barrel I can afford. Like you if we have enough to flush the toilet I’d be happy. My family doesn’t think they need to conserve water but I’m smarter I guess. 😂
Aren't you amazed that God is providing this water right now when you need it?? And He has given you the wisdom to collect it?? And has you thinking of future plans to collect it!! 🙏❣️🙏 I have a large 50 gal? plastic barrel that has been converted to collect water and has a spigot to attach a hose to it! It cost me $50.00 thirty years ago.
I learned in 2021 when we had no rural water for over a week that we have to have water storage… I have gallons and gallons in the house and we also learned to use the pool water as we don’t have a pond. It gets dicy for sure. Time for a well.
We keep a trough under the eve of our chicken house for watering our chickens and mineral tubs under the eve of our house for watering our garden. We’ve had to use it a few times to flush toilets due to a water leak.
This was God letting you know where you needed to prepare for the future emergencies that are coming. It's going to get worse before it gets better. I'm preparing for how to heat our home or emergency shelter for winter here in Iowa if LP or electric isn't available or is to expensive for us .
If the gutters ae not difficult to get apart (the down spout section) a length of flexible drain hose (like they use for RV septic new of course) hose clamped to the down spout over to the barrels to fill.
I can do all thing through God who strengthens me. Agoodd rain Barrel under the down spouts with a cover would be nice. Rainwater is soft water an good for plaints and an we as young woman loved to wash my hair in it and we did drink it too.
Hi Mike, I always enjoy your videos but was put off by your title of this video. There is so much anti government sentiment in our country right now. I’m guessing your local water authority takes safety seriously. We have a well and when we lose power we lose water because the pump shuts off. I enjoyed your resourcefulness collecting water.
I live in Kenya. we keep two 20L bottles full of water just in case and yes we so get power interruptions, water interruptions and wifi interruptions so we keep back up plans for everything.
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We were out of electric and didnt have the pump runing.We fill our milk jug every time we empty one so we can flush the toilets.
That was very wise of ya'll to collect rain water. God does provide, doesn't he?
Hello Myke and Tonya, They say Nessessity is the mother on invention!! Good for you all figuring out what to use the rainwater for. 🤗🤗💞💞💙💙
Myke and Tonya, you are Great! Quick Creative thinking
Thank you Lord for the rain!
Good job family for working together!!!❤
Oh my goodness 🥺. So glad y’all were able to collect rain water the good Lord provided. Hope the water gets fixed real soon. God’s blessings
Pray they soon find the leak and get it repaired. Glad y'all were able to catch rain water to use for your toilets. GOD bless y'all.
I’ll be praying for you guys for sure.
Sending prayers hope you get your water going again 🙏 ❤
My old house used to have a 5000gallon cistern fed by gutters
Aren't you glad you have a smart wife? She is your helper that God gave you. 💖💖🙏🙏👍👍🙏🙏💖💖 SOLAR just saying!💖💖
One day we all the sudden had no water it had been shut off and my husband was so concerned about not being able to flush the toilet We had a 55 -gallon barrel outside that caught rain water I told him no problem with the toilet but drinking water was another subject. I think everyone should be prepared for when things happen you never know when you need water or food do the weather or some unfortunate issue
Definitely a 'Believe' moment when God sends rain like he has for sure!!!. Garbage cans & plastic feed barrels can be temporary water holders
I see you already though of water collection. You can safely wash dishes and people with boiled & cooled water from rain barrels
Thank you Lord for the rain. 🙏
Praying the city gets the leak fixed. 🙏
I hope so too
I was on a well in WA state for over 11 1/2 years. Kept gallon jugs of non potable water for toilets. Kept gallon jugs of drinking water. If the power went out we had no well.. once the drinking gallons were used we kept them filled and stored. Power went out a lot but longest was 7 hours. My sister in law outside of Salem, Oregon said a few years ago during an ice storm they were without power for 12 days. Yikes.
Don't forget you have the pool water. You can take a bath in the pool. Lol
Hopefully the water leak is found and you have water again very soon. So hope weather improves for everyone. Good Luck
Years ago during a drought, we were told to only use the toilet when there were “brown swimmers”. The kids learned the poem: if it’s brown, flush it down. If it’s yellow, let it mellow. This went on all summer.
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When we didn't have water, I bathed the kids in a bin with the rain water. I had rain barrels at the end of my evestrough, and thank god I did.
You might consider drilling a well!! Good luck. God bless.❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏
Great ideal, always gotta keep 2 steps ahead of the needs,
It's to easy to just take for granted the every day pleasures..
We live in a mobile home for 2 years now, feels SO GOOD to actually own it, but we had to make plans and keep emergency bags ready to pick up and go..
Harder than you know when you have a special needs daughter who has to have trech supplies to keep her alive..
So freaked out , we even purchased contractors helmets for head protection. .
O.k. I may be WEIRD, but to me it's like preventive medecine..😮
You can top off your hot tub with sanitizer and all take a turn soaking if you start smelling one another lol!
I assume you have gas for cooking if your power went out. You could boil your collected water for dishes and cooking and drinking but sounds like you have a filter system for purifying water. Great thinking.
Thank you for this video my heart really goes out to you and your family. I’ve been through this before and Man you really don’t realize how bad you need water until it’s fine😮
Hope they found the leak by now, but it did force you to think about things and a solution at the same time. We're on rural water too, but have 2 wells in our pastures for livestock. The problem the past 10+ years is finding someone who is willing or able to work on the pump if they go out. I guess it's a dying art with younger generations...
Time to dig a well
Our Watermain broke also here at our house and they got it fixed on Sunday late afternoon
Well your granddaughter isn't worried. She's enjoying her life . Glad to see all family helping. Love the videos.
You have ponds. Drill a well. Say goodbye to town water. Better for you all.
Reminds me of the song "A Shelter in the Time of Storm" .
I was singing, I will praise you in this storm!~Tonya
Hello 👋 Great idea, then paint the barrels so they look pretty.
God always brings the good out of what may look bad at the moment. Is that not wonderful? God bless you all and love you. 🙏❤️
I live in a mobile home park and we didn’t have water almost 24 hours.
Lesson learned turned on the cold water faucet in the tub
I have rainwater catchment for all my livestock. I have plenty of storage.
Sorry about the water. Yes we are resourceful when we need to be. Don’t forget your pool water too. The thing I’m most concerned about is the electrical grid. Cause in a major whatever the gas generators will run out of fuel and the propane will only last til your tank is empty. So I’m thinking solar is the only way but not sure which one.
God is so good. He knows our needs 🙏🙏
Before modern plumbing people had an outhouse. People had simple wells folks took a bath Saturday night to be "fresh" for church on Sunday morning. . Folks heated water on the wood stove and filled a galvanized water trough that everyone bathed in. Kids first up to the men.. that's where the expression "Don't throw baby out with the wash water" came from. People been using rainwater since forever 😛God bless y'all. ❤
Only the order of baths were opposite.....children last and the water so bad the baby isn't seen so is thrown out with the dirty water. Don't try to tell me that wasn't so...I was 8th to the tub of water and the last.
I live in Kenya and I've seen moms tell the kids to go bathe in the ocean water near the mosque so they will be fresh and clean when they go to the mosque in a few hours. The mosque is located at the mouth of a tributary that leads into a salt water river with huge sand dunes. Good luck
Look at how Joel Salatin and Greg Judy each do pond water for critters.
Homesteading with Doug an Stacy also has a very good water system, gravity fed
@maryadams5898 thanks for adding another option for folks to check out!
You're getting your farm prepared for the future!
God will Definitely Always Provide!!! God Bless Us All!!!
We have our water turned off a bunch. I have gallons of water put up for the toilet. They turn it off and have no warning. Love you all so much! Continued prayers! God bless
Good luck with the water situation. Love you all. Take care✌️🇺🇸❤️
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The large plastic tanks on a skid work ok.
Get a valve that takes the pipe size down to garden hose size. I used it to water the garden.
Great idea
Use your pool water to flush the toilets ❤
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Love your videos and enjoy watching them every time. May the lord bless and protect you and your family and the animals
Thanks so much
Rain water is g,well water is the best!!
I think the water company should give everyone some cases of drinking water. Sheesh. It’s amazing how resourceful one can be when necessary.
An inconvenience has probably proven to be a blessing
Make sure the 275-gallon water totes are covered so they don't grow algae. Off Grid with Doug and Stacy has a water system that they have on video.
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You also have your pool as a water supply. But gathering water as a family is way more fun. ❤❤
Rain barrels.
Do you watch Sow the land he has good videos on water catchment. I dont have county water so i catch rain water all the time
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You have heard I am sure that "a country boy can survive". You can always figure out a way. If it comes to it you can haul water from the pond to flush with. One year we had a heavy wet snow storm, took our power out for over 2 weeks. I had buckets, pots, dish pans any thing that would hold water under every drip off the house I could find. Melted clean snow for drinking and cooking. Found out I could cook a lot on a kerosene heater. Hopefully in the near future you can have your own well. Its just a problem with the power goes out. God bless you all and your little community.
Even tho our small area has a well it was put in yrs ago & our water gets shut off more times than we can count over last 6yrs. We keep 20 2 litter bottles full of water for our 4 dogs, 5 & 3 gallon water about 100 gallons in total in our house at ALL TIMES‼️ I make sure all my 6 potbelly girls & my 4 Nigeria goats full of water 2-3 times a day because of this. Our Wild Firer Dept has water we can get just up our dirt road. I would be thrilled tho if we got rain. Today 6/5/24 its to be 102 in Wittmann, Arizona. But we live in desert. Since husband sent 26yrs as a Phoenix Police Officer we wanted peace & quiet as well as people. Stay safe🙏❤
We had damage from the storms hitting north east texas... continued prayers for everyone
Water collection is a good idea. I think we tend to just take things for granted.
Wow I would’ve thought the town would’ve provided you with drinking water. That’s crazy. Sorry about your water situation. Thank you for the video.
Be sure to cover the barrels so the fowls don’t contaminate the water.
Do you know of Hansen Never Done farms? They have a plastic tank that holds 325 gallons of rain water with a pipe that runs from the gutter and a faucet at the bottom to connect a hose for watering. I thought that might be a good idea for you. God bless you all 💞
I'm sure you haven't considered this, but it is very dangerous for children to play in the rain when it is lightening. My best friend's Dad was struck by lightening in their yard and he died.
That’s awful!
Yes the girls were on the porch.
You do what you have to and that was smart to collect the rain water.
Is there water in your jacuzzi? if so there's that...if not then I would started dumping your 5 gallon buckets in there.
Hope you did t have to wait too much longer for your water to go back on. Did awesome retrieving the water. Take care God Bless. 🙏💕
I live next to a stream so that’s where I would go if our water got turned off. But good on you for being so resourceful.
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❤Y'all are good at making good outta the bad!! Take care❤
Everyone should have a water catchment. I don’t have one but I’ve been shopping around to find a barrel I can afford. Like you if we have enough to flush the toilet I’d be happy. My family doesn’t think they need to conserve water but I’m smarter I guess. 😂
Mike what about those big white barrels , like y’all have one on y’all property.
Aren't you amazed that God is providing this water right now when you need it?? And He has given you the wisdom to collect it?? And has you thinking of future plans to collect it!! 🙏❣️🙏
I have a large 50 gal? plastic barrel that has been converted to collect water and has a spigot to attach a hose to it! It cost me $50.00 thirty years ago.
I learned in 2021 when we had no rural water for over a week that we have to have water storage…
I have gallons and gallons in the house and we also learned to use the pool water as we don’t have a pond. It gets dicy for sure. Time for a well.
Draft that little pond y'all have....or put in a well., govt has no say on your property
Put Mosquito covers over the rain barrels. Its a screen material thats water run in bugs out. Amazon sells them.
We keep a trough under the eve of our chicken house for watering our chickens and mineral tubs under the eve of our house for watering our garden. We’ve had to use it a few times to flush toilets due to a water leak.
Good idea
This was God letting you know where you needed to prepare for the future emergencies that are coming. It's going to get worse before it gets better. I'm preparing for how to heat our home or emergency shelter for winter here in Iowa if LP or electric isn't available or is to expensive for us .
I have well water but you need a backup power system in case the electricity is out. No power no water.
We got an estimate on a well in East Texas…. $24,000….. last year 😮
Way to much
If the gutters ae not difficult to get apart (the down spout section) a length of flexible drain hose (like they use for RV septic new of course) hose clamped to the down spout over to the barrels to fill.
How to buld an outhouse in case of emergancy..........! time to learn how they did it before indoor plumbing and such
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I have the well', House is totally electric. I have no water when my power is off I don’t have anything when my power is off.
Mike that is what Brandon Eddy did for his water when he first moved to there farm.
I can do all thing through God who strengthens me.
Agoodd rain Barrel under the down spouts with a cover would be nice. Rainwater is soft water an good for plaints and an we as young woman loved to wash my hair in it and we did drink it too.
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Hi Mike, I always enjoy your videos but was put off by your title of this video. There is so much anti government sentiment in our country right now. I’m guessing your local water authority takes safety seriously. We have a well and when we lose power we lose water because the pump shuts off. I enjoyed your resourcefulness collecting water.
A generator would keep your well running when you have no power. The title of their video happens to be true so there's that.
That was just a play on words to try and get more views. I mean they did turn they water off but we are not upset or mad at the Government
If you do a well, then you have to do a sewer system also. 😩 🤑
Government turned your water off? What?? Not a good headline to blame the Government. I love yalls videos, not really the headline.😂
It would be great to use collected water for your garden
I live in Kenya. we keep two 20L bottles full of water just in case and yes we so get power interruptions, water interruptions and wifi interruptions so we keep back up plans for everything.