Good effing grief - look at flood water in South Carolina

[Warpy]

1. Too many people out there think they can drive through deep water

not realizing if they can't see the road, it might not be there any more.

Around here, 6 inches of water can take a car since it drops over a mile and is moving very fast. Once I saw a garden shed being swept down one of the arroyos.

This is the time to hunker down and eat that canned stuff from the back of the cupboard instead of risking a drive to buy food. Water isn't as problematic as you might think if it's fresh water, remember this chart: http://www.i4at.org/surv/bleach.htm The resulting water won't taste very good but it will be safe. Extra points for using a coffee filter and pasteuizing it in a solar cooker. You can also use flood water to flush the toilet, just don't flush too often because treatment plants are overwhelmed with flood water.

The more you know, the easier living through a flooding disaster can get as long as the interior of your house is high and dry.