Ok - Hurricane irritation from a Floridian

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57. Of course, it's clean.

There's no difference between storing it in a clean container you already own and buying a jug of water. It's for a storm and its aftermath. It's not forever. People over the last half century and more have been very capable of storing their own water during storms. Just because big bottlers had not yet figured out how to sell bottled tap water to people who do not need it does not mean we couldn't handle water storage all these years. We used to have periodic flushings of city water systems. These were announced in advance. Everyone knew to store water for at least a day's usage or they'd have brown, filthy water coming out of their pipes. We'd fill containers and, just in case there was a longer down period, a bathtub. This was commonplace. And common sense.

This has nothing to do with improperly stored water or outbreaks of diarrhea. People aren't going to store water in their toilet or used trash cans. They know how to handle and store safe drinking water. People are obviously more capable and intelligent than you believe. If not, we wouldn't be here.