Got the mandatory evacuation from the Outerbanks in NC, what a bummer. I spent the past six months planning this trip and then BAM - mother nature cuts my time in half. I am now sitting in my house in Maryland filling 6 gallon carboys with drinking water just in case and filling my old cooler style mash tun with ice incase power goes down.
Brewing - it can save your life…
Anyone else using brewing equipment to weather the storm?
Sorry about the vacation. :( I’ll be near Wilmington next month, provided the oceanfront house we’ve rented is still there.
When we had a windstorm a few years ago that knocked out power for 4 or 5 days, it wasn’t bad. The water worked, the gas worked, just now electricity. So I could cook on the stove and take hot showers, but we had no heat. Left to myself and after cleaning up the mess, I brewed. :) If things had been tougher though, we still would have been fine with the beer/water/food/fuel stocks we keep on hand.
I would fill some extra buckets for washing dishes and showering. It’s amazing how clean you can get yourself with a five gallon bucket of water. What if water isn’t good to drink or use for longer than expected,. And there might be friends and neighbors that didn’t plan as well. You can go- here’s five gal for ya!