![]() Some sections of roof are smaller than others, so you won’t collect as much rain. Placementįiguring out where to setup your rain barrel is important. Heavy bits dangle from the plastic screen, causing damage to the screen. They tape the hardware to the inside of this screen, so it flops around during shipping, and thus damages the plastic screen. Other than these small nits, the thing looks nice, and was pretty easy to set up. Unboxing it I noted two things, the bottom was slightly uneven (probably will flatted out when full of water), and the screen on the top was cracked because the manufacturer tapes the hardware bits to hang inside the barrel off the screen (so it’s flopping around during transit, putting stress on the screen). ![]() I got the Good Ideas Rain Barrel, Light Granite. A company called Good Ideas seems to have a multitude of decorative rain barrels to choose from. I went to Amazon first (of course) in search of something appropriate. Why not catch some of it for emergency use? The rain streams off my roof in literal torrents. ![]() Houston has epic rainfall most every year. But it’d be a good idea to check your local laws before going forward with your rain catching plans.Īfter my recent experience I decided to try setting up a rain barrel. Apparently, only Colorado and Utah have regulations governing this according to this website. If you want to learn more about home cisterns, check out this detailed article form Penn State Extension.Ĭollecting rainwater is legal or unregulated, and often encouraged in nearly all states. Don’t know if they are any good, but I liked looking at their website. Collecting rainwater can range from a simple bucket under a gutter downspout, to rain barrels, to a dedicated underground cistern. If you live in a house, then there is a lot more you can do, namely catching rainwater. Prepping for morning coffee in the dark, backpacking stove, AeroPress and hand grinder. If you live in an apartment or otherwise rent or can’t make changes to your dwelling, then having a few large water containers you can fill up could come in very handy, as well as a means to purify your water. Part of the solution is to stock up on water just before disaster strikes. Some of the disasters that threaten the power grid or quality of the water supply directly, include: forest fires, as happened in California where parts of the grid had to be shut-down due to fire risk flooding and extreme rain, as happens all over large parts of the US quite frequently hurricane force winds, mostly along the eastern and southern seaboard and of course long-term droughts, which are expected to get worse over large parts of the western US. Anything that threatens the power grid or the water quality itself can cause water pumping stations to shut down. It’s not only cold snaps that can threaten your water supply, but any of a multitude of climate and weather related possibilities. But, when you go to the bathroom and flush the toilet and the tank doesn’t fill back up, well then you start to get concerned. I had stocked up plenty of drinking water, and I have several different ways to purify water, so that wasn’t a huge concern. We were also under a water boil advisory for almost two weeks. However, the more concerning thing was that there was no water for two days, and very low water pressure for another three. My house lost power for a day, which wasn’t too bad as the worst of the cold had passed. ![]() Places that have never experienced such cold weather and are poorly adapted for these conditions, will be caught off guard. This winter we had an epic cold snap in usually warm and sunny Texas, paradoxically the kind that will be more common in an energetic and warming climate. ![]()
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