Shutting down water, gas etc in prep to ride out.

[Nimbus]

Cook up the stuff in your freezer and put a couple gallon jugs 3/4 full of lemonade in to freeze. You will have cold lemonade to drink and the frozen jugs will keep your fridge cool for 3 or 4 days. Without AC lemonade and cold showers will be a real comfort. You probably have a gravity feed water system. Good luck!

[cancunkid]

Hey you all know this information could be real important hurricane prep stuff. Any thought of moving some of this information to that forum? I had heard about the frozen jugs in fridge thing but you know I would have never remembered it when it came time. Just think some of this could be as important as the hurricane kits that are stickied in that thread. You all have really thought this out well.

[HurricaneQueen]

When you do open fridge you will need to empty your ice maker or it will leak everywhere.

Florida hurricane vet

From experience, ain't that the truth!!!! It took me weeks to get the hard water etching out of mystainless steel freezer door after Charley

[cswitwer]

Oh yes - I forgot about the jugs! If you can freeze jugs of water or whatever, it can keep the food in your fridge cold for WAY longer, plus it doesn't cause a mess like bags of ice would after they unfreeze - thanks for posting that! Good one to add!

[inotherwords]

I saved a file from last year's ST2K with a whole bunch of great suggestions on it. I guess I probably should transcribe the highlights and save them as a file I could distribute. I'll see if I can find the list.

Anyway, I try to save empty pop bottles of all different sizes and fill them with filtered water. I have a small chest freezer in the garage and I use this to store the water. If you fill a freezer up with stuff it works more efficiently. So the water serves a dual purpose. I like using the different sizes and not just jugs because they work nicely to fit down into crevasses between food, etc.

[orchid]

Roxy Please tell me your wedding is after the hurricane season is over!!! BTW my best advice to you I got from grandma. When I got married she told me to play dumb I quote" don't you even change a light bulb" now after many lightbulbs later I understand her advice, follow it if not you will be doing all your hurricane preparations yourself.

Good luck!!! We'll be praying!!!

[Roxy]

Roxy Please tell me your wedding is after the hurricane season is over!!! BTW my best advice to you I got from grandma. When I got married she told me to play dumb I quote" don't you even change a light bulb" now after many lightbulbs later I understand her advice, follow it if not you will be doing all your hurricane preparations yourself.

Good luck!!! We'll be praying!!!

Yes, it's in January.

Getting ready for this Hurricane has certainly been a "growing" experience. Now that things are looking much better for us, I might need a beer.

Thanks!!

[arkess7]

last year during Frances our power went out for 2 days and i found it very helpful that my gas stove could still cook food.....i wouldnt attempt to turn your gas off...at all......leave it to the pros...

[jawa89]

If you are on a well and stand to loose power for several days, like I am, put severl large plastic trash cans (clean) in the back of the truck (Tx/La) and then fill them with water. Take the bildge pump off the boat (Tx/La) and rig it to a hose and run the hose into the bathroom for a shower and tolet flushing. Don't back feed your water lines and don't kill your truck battery.

[arkess7]

oh and by the way ...our thoughts and prayers are with you...HUNKER DOWN!!

[MomH]

After you fill that washing machine with water -- TURN OFF THE WATER AT THE WALL. Take it from someone who knows. Unless that machine is brand new, the hoses probably should have long since been replaced.