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Basements will flood and preps will be destroyed in a grid down scenario.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 75580120:MV8zODI1NzczXzY4Nzc3MjE0X0NDNENDNjlG] [quote:Anonymous Coward 76519973:MV8zODI1NzczXzY4Nzc1NDg1X0M0MERGOTc5] [quote:Anonymous Coward 19581473:MV8zODI1NzczXzY4Nzc1NDM4XzU5NDg1QzBG] [quote:Anonymous Coward 76519973:MV8zODI1NzczXzMwMDBDQTE4] I got to thinking, if an EMP or any long term grid down scenario occurs basements will be worthless if you can't pump the water out. Think about how much your pump runs in a heavy spring or summer rain. How do you overcome that? A hand barrel / drum pump?? I think this is something many overlook. [/quote] Uhhhhhhhhhh . . . the majority of homes do not get flooding in their basements. [/quote] That's because they have sump pumps retard. If the pumps don't run they flood. The only way is if you live on a hill. FFS you're retarded. [/quote] True. When it pours the sump runs a lot. My answer for outages, which can occur when storms come thru, is a generator but eventually I would run out of fuel if the outages were long-term. I guess I could put in a battery operated smaller secondary pump and just run a genny part time to charge the batteries [/quote]
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I got to thinking, if an EMP or any long term grid down scenario occurs basements will be worthless if you can't pump the water out. Think about how much your pump runs in a heavy spring or summer rain. How do you overcome that? A hand barrel / drum pump?? I think this is something many overlook.
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