[metmom]

Sheesh. There’s water everywhere there. Boil it.

I'll ask you what I asked another FReeper.

Are you presuming that this is CLEAN water???

You do realize, don't you, that there's more to making water potable than simply boiling it?

Did you account for the salt, sand, mud, debris, oil, diesel, gasoline, dead bodies, and sewage?

And with what are they to boil it? Gasoline they can't get? Or natural gas that's been turned off? Or electricity that is off due to downed power lines?

Stores of bottles water in one's home is CRITICAL to survival for just these reasons.

[presently no screen name]

Ah, common sense speaks! Thanks for showing up, metmom. Some can’t think outside of their comfy box.

[Kartographer]

AMEN metmom! Boil it at least then it will be disinfected water with petroleum products, various chemicals, lead, arsenic, a variable stew of poisons.

People just don’t have a clue, but all we can do is try to educate them.