This stuff does not concern me one bit.
By the way, does anybody know where I can buy 55 gal drums of drinking water and cases of canned goods?
Go to an outdoors store like REI or Dick's Sporting Goods and buy a backpacking water purifier. They have several models with little hand pumps and the filters are good for several hundred gallons. Wouldn't hurt to buy an emergency bottle of the drops as well.
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uh... just buy the 55 gallon drums, configure them inline with your downspouts, and buy some “dichlor” pool shock.
For the canned goods, Costco.com.
#10 cans are expensive but have a shelf of 25 to 30 years, versus 5 to 10 for MRE’s.