I live in Florida with water supplied by a well too. No water was a major concern for me for years. My son bought solar panels on ebay and connected them to a battery bank. He also bought a very small generator to charge the batteries should we be without the sun power for too long. So, back up power comes from the power stored in the batteries. We have water, refrigeration, microwave oven, and most lights when we go to back up. We lost power in this storm for a short period, but the houses a couple of doors down are still running generators because of a tree on the line down there. The solar back up has been a wonderful change from the past.
All 3 even better. Have solar power & generator for essentials and hand pump for intermittent things(like a well pump, small lights) as a 3rd level back up.
And after the darkest of nights, comes the brightest of mornings... No casualities and no injuries is the most important thing. Everything else can be worked out.
Before a storm, you should fill water and Tupperware and put in the freezer. Serves two purposes. Ice blocks will keep your food colder longer. More efficient on generator use. Second you’ll have water as it melts. You guys should set up a rain collection system off the barn. Great upcoming videos - survival cooking from stockpile. Always buy paper plates before storms. No water for dishes.
I’m in a city apartment, but have a stand alone freezer in addition to the fridge freezer. I always keep frozen bottles of water in each of them when they are not full with food. Days before this storm hit I put even more filled bottles & Mason jars in the big freezer. It’s enough to keep food frozen for several days and cool after that for a few more. I also cooked a bunch of ground beef and hard boiled many eggs before the storm hit. Even made coffee concentrate! Cold coffee in the morning is better than no coffee! Also filled almost all of my jars with fresh water, put some in fridge and the rest on every household surface 😳 forgot about the buckets & tub for toilets, but won’t next time…
@@tibbs4000 hadn’t heard that one but it makes sense! I keep my freezers in my garage in Texas. So I always have them as full as possible for efficiency. I like the 2 liter idea. They lay flat. Easy to move. No extra cost. Easy to pour later. Also the freezer alarms that report temperature and text your phone are nice. Easy way to monitor when power is out.
Jess and Miah, We live in SW Louisiana so, unfortunately, are well-versed in hurricane recovery. If you cut the tops off of your fallen oaks, letting the root balls fall back into place, and keep them watered as needed, they may recover. It is amazing how quickly they can grow back. We are praying for everyone. God's speed dear ones.
After Hurricane Irene, my friend Steve brought over frozen 1/2 gallons of water in old plastic milk jugs in an ice chest, laid down in the bottom with a towel over them. That was my icebox for 2 and a half weeks, and every other day, I brought the jugs to Steve to refreeze. I realize this wouldn't work this time for you, but it's just one more idea to file away for the future. That set-up saved us! I love what Jackson said, he's a pretty darned wise young man you raised there, Jess! Thank you for this Jess, and I'm very sorry that you've been hit, and your town has so much damage. My city, Montpelier VT, JUST is starting to feel a bit more normal and businesses coming back to life, after the flood of 2023. But good community will bring it back. We couldn't rely on the government, they were not helpful, especially to the small businesses. It was the community that brought our city back. I send prayers to you. 💝💖
Every. Time. we lose power, I look for gaps in my preparedness and what I need to improve. We survived the catastrophic Texas freeze of 2021, and came out stronger -- But I have since learned, WATER, is most important, and the lack of it, most inconvenient!
We survived that and thankfully our well never froze and we didn’t lose power but we had no heat. So kids camped in the living room together, we had filled water up in mason jars and bathtubs so I was grateful for that. We have a generator for my parents RV also. We have a berkey now since then. I don’t like using heat lamps for anything but we did use them in our well shed and I think that helped it not freeze. We also kept our water running a lot. I definitely want solar. We have our well shed up on our hill next to house and it’s tucked behind our house from wind break. Whoever decided that was genius because it has proved to be helpful in bad weather. We tucked our coop nearby that as well so it has a good wind break as well. I just need to get better prepared with canning and camp cooking.
The wild and weird blizzard with lightning of 1993 (Tennessee) made a believer in prepping out of me. Fortunately, my husband was WAY ahead of the curve and we lived like kings while others did not shower or eat much for a couple of weeks. Couple of feet of snow outside, and not many roads passable. Lots of trees down. We just do not have two feet of snow, and snow storm with lightning...no. Weird. I was pregnant with my fifth and babysitting a friend of my daughters. We had a woodstove, lived in an earth sheltered house with close lines in the passive solar sunroom, gas stove and water heaters, had a generator, and hubby had stashed away all kinds of good things even though I thought it unnecessary. Needless to say, I am the prepper queen now. When it comes to taking care of my family or helping my neighbors, I am ready.
Yes, every time is a chance to find gaps. I'm still struggling with water storage. I have a place to store 50-gallon drums outside on a concrete pad. I don't have a good system for getting the water out -- the hand pump I bought to go with it doesn't reach the bottom. Just not practical in a true emergency. (Suggestions appreciated) Recently, I thought I should be storing a drum or two in the garage in case of a freeze.
God impressed upon you to downsize because he knew what was going to happen. Thanking God you didn’t have major damage. Please keep the Arms family in your prayers, there only daughter EmmaLee is facing a serious surgery in the next few weeks. She has had since birth a sunken chest syndrome. Drs had to wait until she was 16 or older. It is effecting her heart and lungs. Right side of her heart is being compressed 75%.
Girl we just moved back to the area (Prosperity my home) a month ago and are renovating an old farm house and starting a homestead. Our brand new little homestead got rocked by this. Lost a barn, a 200 year old oak out front and of course no power. People have been helping each other as much as possible but this has definitely shown me we're doing the right thing. Goodness, so many have no food, electric or even running water. They're talking about a week before some get power back maybe longer out here.
Hurricane Helene made her way up through Ohio and visited my home. She left a mess of downed trees, power lines down, a neighbor’s truck crunched, a telephone pole snapped in three places, power outages, at our house- a broken fence and a hole punched through the roof and ceiling of our spare bedroom. Thanks Hurricane Helene! It was a rocking’ party yesterday afternoon 😱! Seriously, we are truly grateful to God that no one was hurt and our little kitties are okay though a bit spooked by the noise and confusion. Praying for everyone out there! So glad y’all are okay Jess.
The children think those downed trees are the best thing ever lol, sounds like children and it does sound like fun climbing around them. They fell and didn't hurt anything, good you guys. They didn't even get the power lines.
Just a note for the future, if you have bathtubs, fill them so you have water handy to flush toilets. Saves you having to haul in as much from outside. And as the old saying goes, “If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down.”
When I was growing up, a tropical storm knocked our neighbor's huge tree into our yard (missed our house by inches). That weekend was my brother's birthday party, and my dad trimmed up the fallen tree to make it safe and essentially turned it into a obstacle course for us kids - we all absolutely loved it! Spent all day running in and out of the tree lol A great memory from my childhood 😊
In 1992 Hurricane Andrew hit the southern portion of Miami as a Category 5 storm. We were without power for more than 30 days. The heat and humidity was rough and it was difficult to fall asleep at night. A friend gifted me body powder which helped me feel dry/cooler in the evenings until I couldn’t fall asleep. I always keep that powder in stock for power losses.
Would be a good opportunity to look into creating content for some solar power implementation as well as rain water collection ... assuming it's legal where y'all are. 🙃
Do consider cutting the branches and trees you wont use for mushrooms, raised beds, etc... into lengths. Yes, you do not have a wood stove but there are likely to be those in your community in need this winter. Chose to sell it, work through your local Salvation Army, or your church/ city/ or county relief services.
We live in Florida and have gone through many hurricanes. The most important thing is that god is good and spared you and your animals from the storms wrath. The clean up is often so much to deal with. The fact that everyone is helping is so…. Helpful!
Glad you are safe and little damage. Heleen came here too, so we have no power for undetermined time. This is when the naysayers realize we are NOT crazy. Yay!!
Also canning jars make great water storage in advance of storm. Use what you have. Back in the day, we’d clean the bath tub and fill. We’d have toilet flushing water available.
Happy to see that you didn't have serious damage but for the 2 trees you loved so much. I see you also have a little short haired calico cat like mine. She is 16 years old this month.
I love that Jackson was able to give you that needed perspective shift. Happy to hear that you and yours are doing well and that the kids are enjoying the time rather than finding fear and distress in it. Praying you get your power back quickly and that your whole area stays safe. Blessed be!
After Hurricane Beryl, I decided this winter in canning 1 jar meals, banana bread, and brown bread. This way we don't have a lot of dishes needing to be washed. We fill 5 gal buckets for personal care. We fill the bathtub with a small bucket for flushing. We also use old laundry soap bottles for washing hands. We've learned from each storm.
Another good water source is using those ibc totes as rain barrels. We have them all over our property. We have spouts off the roof of our little barn, chicken coop, and our home and rain fills the ibc totes. We use them to fill the animals water or water the garden. It’s not filtered to drink but it helps around the farm.
💚 So good to hear from and see you. Thanks for posting again so soon! Taking inventory of your systems and backup plans affords great info and improved readiness measures! Love seeing you hand milking a cow again 😅 💚
Talk about perfect timing to have downsized and reestablished your farm the way you guys need it! As soon as I see your video with the storm going through I knew you guys would be ok in the aftermath. It may be stressful, but Jackson is right, this is what you guys have prepared for ❤
When a storm is coming, in addition to filling your bathtub, put your washing machine on large load and run a cycle with no soap (to clean the drum). Then start another cycle and stop the machine when the tub fills. Holds a lot of useful clean water, and easy to dump what you didn't use; just restart the machine.
The problem I had with boiling water when Hurricane Matthew came through in 2015ish was what to do with the water while it cooled. I only had a few stock pots so had to wait on the water to cool so I could store it in the plastic containers I had before I could boil more water. You need containers that aren’t plastic to store the water in.
@@allisonhartley6712 great point. The crock from a crockpot or instapot or roaster is fairly large. But outside of that, my large pot availability is minimal. I’ve been wanting a oversized large stainless mixing bowl but storage is an issue
A tip for canners who may see this...one thing I have started doing...instead of leaving empty jars on my shelves, I can water for emergencies. Shake before use so it doesn't taste flat. Hope this helps 🙏🏻
We have a generator to plug in necessary appliances and keep a dozen gallon recycled jugs filled with tap water for animal/human necessities. It’s not a whole house generator, but we love camping so during power outages we use those skills to survive. During Hurricane Sandy we were out of over for 3 weeks. At night we’d have a fire in the fireplace to help warm the house (October in autumn) and play board games by battery operated lanterns. Keep safe and yes, show your skills! ❤
Hurricane Hone took out power in my community for a few days, but we are off grid so we were fine. Homesteading makes you more resilient and able to handle emergencies for sure.
We have converted a small bedroom in our house into what we call our extended pantry. In there we have about 350 liters of drinking water plus the rain water tank outside for cooking and washing. As you say, this is a good test of your system. Good luck and stay safe.
It's Great that Jack reminded you to use your skills and to see where your weaknesses are. Pull your RV around. Use it's kitchen. Invest in several butane stoves. Small single burners heat food faster than propane and are not bulky and better yet... you can use them INDOORS more safely. Restaraunts use them tableside. Dehydrated and freeze dried meats are a must. So relieved you were safe!! God bless you.
I'm so glad you're all safe and have minimal damage. Have you considered feeding the tree limbs to the goats? My herd just loves when they get extra treats of leaves and brush.
We out a hand pump on our well and connected a generator to it, so when the power goes down, we can hand pump, or we can run the generator to fill troughs, or do dishes, and cook. The key is to have a generator dedicated to the well, a generator dedicated to the house, and a generator dedicated to the barn. Then, your only challenge is to have lots of fuel on hand.
I've watched you for years, so glad to hear y'all are okay! I live in WNC in Madison County we have been hit hard so hard I've never seen anything like it. Some counties around us are gone..bridges are wiped out..people are lost its really bad..really sad. We haven't had power, cell phones to contact loved ones. It's slowly coming back up but there's so much damage and loss. Remember my community and all of WNC as well as some of Tennessee its really bad you can't even fathom. We need all the prayers we can get.
Y’all were very well prepared to go through something like Helene. We, however, were not. While we didn’t suffer anything but rain, seeing videos like yours and talking to family that suffered much worse than we did and were very ill prepared, we are working on our preparedness immediately. Thank you for always being transparent ❤.
Hi Jess, it was GREAT to see you in Costco today. When I said Welcome to cola to you and the boys, I didn’t want to bring to much attention to you for privacy ❤ It was insanely busy in there. So happy to have you as part of our community 😘❤️
Jess, I am so glad to see this is all that happened to your family. We are in Georgia and I thank the good Lord we were spared at our home. I was ready with my generators, but it's not the same as the whole house having power. I bought the Berkey filtration system a few years ago and I am grateful for that too. I'll be praying for you all that the power comes back on sooner than later. Much love to you all
It's always good to be prepared...or on that path. Things others may want to consider...we just built our house with well water, along with hand held frost free pumps. We also have a free flowing septic. No power needed. Another thing is having appliance that are not digital. Hope all are safe!!
The good out of this is people can see where they need to improve their emergency preparedness ,i have a generator and water always put up with food for myself, animals but I'm not on a big farm so i dont have to worry about as many things. . sending Prayers 🙏🏼
The most important thing about preservation of water is to always keep it circulation that prevents the algae due to the oxidation. If you can keep your water circulating your in the good.
Stanley makes a great pour over coffee system. No coffee ground filter required and it’s made of metal. We use it all the time during electric outages and when we travel. In addition, when you are filling your jugs, buckets, tubs with water-boil water as hot as you can get it and fill every thermos you can find. Wrap the thermoses in towels and pack them in a box.
When we lived in Fla and had hurricanes and power outages my husband installed an old style hand pump from our water well so we atleast had water from our well.
We put a transfer switch on our electric box to be able to run our well pump on our small generator. It was the best thing we’ve done! It was cheaper than a whole house generator and everyone gets water when power is out 🙏🙌🏼
So glad to hear you all and Jackson are ok. I have never experienced anything like that and I cannot imagine what it is like. I am impressed by your attitude and Miah's carpentry!
I live for years North Carolina outer Banks. Flooding hurricanes hurricanes coming through. A generator For house refrigerators and freezers are necessity. We always make sure to fill all the animal Waters prior to the storm. Stay safe and happy doing well.
When our well went down and we didn’t have water, my rain barrels were a godsend! We were able to flush toilets using rainwater and had a couple gallons of bottled water already for drinking, brushing teeth and washing hands etc.
Sept, 28, 2024. I live in the Moncton, New-Brunswick Canada, in the Maritime, Atlantic Coast, so In the Maritimes, in the month of September, October, we have a few Hurrcaines, or Tropical Storms, we get lots of rain, flood, trees down, no power. and damages. Please stay all safe. I hope that you don't have to much or no damage on your proprety, your home, your business. and your Country, City, town, County. Community.
I'm glad you all are okay. We got hit by a tornado in February of this year and it was a big eye opener where we were lacking. Events are never announced, prepare for any day, any time.
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Y'all should think about putting a hand pump on your well. That way when the power is out you can still get water
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@@michelemann671 solar pump for the win..
I live in Florida with water supplied by a well too. No water was a major concern for me for years. My son bought solar panels on ebay and connected them to a battery bank. He also bought a very small generator to charge the batteries should we be without the sun power for too long. So, back up power comes from the power stored in the batteries. We have water, refrigeration, microwave oven, and most lights when we go to back up. We lost power in this storm for a short period, but the houses a couple of doors down are still running generators because of a tree on the line down there. The solar back up has been a wonderful change from the past.
All 3 even better. Have solar power & generator for essentials and hand pump for intermittent things(like a well pump, small lights) as a 3rd level back up.
This storm hit a lot of places hard 😢 it's very sad to see and hear about people losing their homes.
And after the darkest of nights, comes the brightest of mornings...
No casualities and no injuries is the most important thing. Everything else can be worked out.
Before a storm, you should fill water and Tupperware and put in the freezer. Serves two purposes. Ice blocks will keep your food colder longer. More efficient on generator use. Second you’ll have water as it melts. You guys should set up a rain collection system off the barn.
Great upcoming videos - survival cooking from stockpile. Always buy paper plates before storms. No water for dishes.
Great tips
Yes! We have a generator but we still stock the freezer with a few 2 liter coke bottles for this type of situation.
I’m in a city apartment, but have a stand alone freezer in addition to the fridge freezer. I always keep frozen bottles of water in each of them when they are not full with food. Days before this storm hit I put even more filled bottles & Mason jars in the big freezer. It’s enough to keep food frozen for several days and cool after that for a few more. I also cooked a bunch of ground beef and hard boiled many eggs before the storm hit. Even made coffee concentrate! Cold coffee in the morning is better than no coffee!
Also filled almost all of my jars with fresh water, put some in fridge and the rest on every household surface 😳 forgot about the buckets & tub for toilets, but won’t next time…
And fill the bathtubs. You can fill toilet for flushing, and washing up if need be from tub
@@tibbs4000 hadn’t heard that one but it makes sense! I keep my freezers in my garage in Texas. So I always have them as full as possible for efficiency. I like the 2 liter idea. They lay flat. Easy to move. No extra cost. Easy to pour later. Also the freezer alarms that report temperature and text your phone are nice. Easy way to monitor when power is out.
Jess and Miah, We live in SW Louisiana so, unfortunately, are well-versed in hurricane recovery. If you cut the tops off of your fallen oaks, letting the root balls fall back into place, and keep them watered as needed, they may recover. It is amazing how quickly they can grow back. We are praying for everyone. God's speed dear ones.
Your son Jackson is a very smart young man. Attitude is everything. You raised someone who will be resilient. You did good momma.
After Hurricane Irene, my friend Steve brought over frozen 1/2 gallons of water in old plastic milk jugs in an ice chest, laid down in the bottom with a towel over them. That was my icebox for 2 and a half weeks, and every other day, I brought the jugs to Steve to refreeze. I realize this wouldn't work this time for you, but it's just one more idea to file away for the future. That set-up saved us!
I love what Jackson said, he's a pretty darned wise young man you raised there, Jess! Thank you for this Jess, and I'm very sorry that you've been hit, and your town has so much damage. My city, Montpelier VT, JUST is starting to feel a bit more normal and businesses coming back to life, after the flood of 2023. But good community will bring it back. We couldn't rely on the government, they were not helpful, especially to the small businesses. It was the community that brought our city back. I send prayers to you.
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Every. Time. we lose power, I look for gaps in my preparedness and what I need to improve. We survived the catastrophic Texas freeze of 2021, and came out stronger -- But I have since learned, WATER, is most important, and the lack of it, most inconvenient!
We survived that and thankfully our well never froze and we didn’t lose power but we had no heat. So kids camped in the living room together, we had filled water up in mason jars and bathtubs so I was grateful for that. We have a generator for my parents RV also. We have a berkey now since then. I don’t like using heat lamps for anything but we did use them in our well shed and I think that helped it not freeze. We also kept our water running a lot. I definitely want solar. We have our well shed up on our hill next to house and it’s tucked behind our house from wind break. Whoever decided that was genius because it has proved to be helpful in bad weather. We tucked our coop nearby that as well so it has a good wind break as well. I just need to get better prepared with canning and camp cooking.
Us too!!!
The wild and weird blizzard with lightning of 1993 (Tennessee) made a believer in prepping out of me. Fortunately, my husband was WAY ahead of the curve and we lived like kings while others did not shower or eat much for a couple of weeks. Couple of feet of snow outside, and not many roads passable. Lots of trees down. We just do not have two feet of snow, and snow storm with lightning...no. Weird. I was pregnant with my fifth and babysitting a friend of my daughters. We had a woodstove, lived in an earth sheltered house with close lines in the passive solar sunroom, gas stove and water heaters, had a generator, and hubby had stashed away all kinds of good things even though I thought it unnecessary. Needless to say, I am the prepper queen now. When it comes to taking care of my family or helping my neighbors, I am ready.
Yes, every time is a chance to find gaps. I'm still struggling with water storage. I have a place to store 50-gallon drums outside on a concrete pad. I don't have a good system for getting the water out -- the hand pump I bought to go with it doesn't reach the bottom. Just not practical in a true emergency. (Suggestions appreciated) Recently, I thought I should be storing a drum or two in the garage in case of a freeze.
Same!
God impressed upon you to downsize because he knew what was going to happen. Thanking God you didn’t have major damage. Please keep the Arms family in your prayers, there only daughter EmmaLee is facing a serious surgery in the next few weeks. She has had since birth a sunken chest syndrome. Drs had to wait until she was 16 or older. It is effecting her heart and lungs. Right side of her heart is being compressed 75%.
Girl we just moved back to the area (Prosperity my home) a month ago and are renovating an old farm house and starting a homestead. Our brand new little homestead got rocked by this. Lost a barn, a 200 year old oak out front and of course no power. People have been helping each other as much as possible but this has definitely shown me we're doing the right thing. Goodness, so many have no food, electric or even running water. They're talking about a week before some get power back maybe longer out here.
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Sending prayers for everyone 🙏🏼
Prayers for all
Hurricane Helene made her way up through Ohio and visited my home. She left a mess of downed trees, power lines down, a neighbor’s truck crunched, a telephone pole snapped in three places, power outages, at our house- a broken fence and a hole punched through the roof and ceiling of our spare bedroom. Thanks Hurricane Helene! It was a rocking’ party yesterday afternoon 😱! Seriously, we are truly grateful to God that no one was hurt and our little kitties are okay though a bit spooked by the noise and confusion. Praying for everyone out there! So glad y’all are okay Jess.
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The children think those downed trees are the best thing ever lol, sounds like children and it does sound like fun climbing around them. They fell and didn't hurt anything, good you guys. They didn't even get the power lines.
Now I see why grandparents used to applaud when we fell and bounced. LOL
Damn! love your wise woman hair streak!
Just a note for the future, if you have bathtubs, fill them so you have water handy to flush toilets. Saves you having to haul in as much from outside. And as the old saying goes, “If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down.”
So happy everyones ok ❤ Always such a mess after a storm like that.
Any day your family survives the storm (whatever form that storm comes in) is always the best day ever.
When I was growing up, a tropical storm knocked our neighbor's huge tree into our yard (missed our house by inches). That weekend was my brother's birthday party, and my dad trimmed up the fallen tree to make it safe and essentially turned it into a obstacle course for us kids - we all absolutely loved it! Spent all day running in and out of the tree lol A great memory from my childhood 😊
In 1992 Hurricane Andrew hit the southern portion of Miami as a Category 5 storm. We were without power for more than 30 days. The heat and humidity was rough and it was difficult to fall asleep at night. A friend gifted me body powder which helped me feel dry/cooler in the evenings until I couldn’t fall asleep. I always keep that powder in stock for power losses.
A “trial run” like this to test your systems is always a great thing. No doubt you will shore up those areas as needed. Glad you are well.
Would be a good opportunity to look into creating content for some solar power implementation as well as rain water collection ... assuming it's legal where y'all are. 🙃
Not to mention installing a hand pump for the well (alongside the existing electric one).
@@RTCPhotoWorkthat's the next item on my list to buy
Rain water collection is legal in all 50 states. There may be restrictions on how much you can collect but it’s not banned.
So grateful you are safe. Prayers answered.
Prayers and love to you all affected by the storm
Exactly. Sometimes its just good living and sometimes its preparedness for situations. But its a blessing either way.
Do consider cutting the branches and trees you wont use for mushrooms, raised beds, etc... into lengths. Yes, you do not have a wood stove but there are likely to be those in your community in need this winter. Chose to sell it, work through your local Salvation Army, or your church/ city/ or county relief services.
@@terryhenderson424 never a bad idea to have a pile of firewood. You may need it to cook or just do a bonfire night.
Great idea. So many are going to be in need this winter.
Thank you Jess for checking in.Makes a big difference to a old lady that STRESSes alot.
Sure love you guys❤
We live in Florida and have gone through many hurricanes. The most important thing is that god is good and spared you and your animals from the storms wrath. The clean up is often so much to deal with. The fact that everyone is helping is so…. Helpful!
You need a sign for the treehouse..."Survived Hurricane Helene 2024" 😃
So glad you all are safe! ❤❤❤
Kids are amazingly resilient.
Glad you are safe and little damage.
Heleen came here too, so we have no power for undetermined time. This is when the naysayers realize we are NOT crazy. Yay!!
Glad y’all are safe. Sending prayers for you and your town. Be blessed! You have our love.🙏❤🙏
Also canning jars make great water storage in advance of storm. Use what you have. Back in the day, we’d clean the bath tub and fill. We’d have toilet flushing water available.
When my mother-in-law cans, she fills any empty slots with water so there's always water getting stored.
@@FebbieG Thanks for sharing this idea!
Glad your family and animals are safe & there was minimal damage.
Glad you all are safe, prayers for others involved with the storm
Glad to see you are all okay! Prayers for all who were in the path of the storm.
Glad to hear y'all are okay down there. Prayers answered 🙏
Happy to see that you didn't have serious damage but for the 2 trees you loved so much.
I see you also have a little short haired calico cat like mine. She is 16 years old this month.
thankful our water comes from a spring! we're solar and feeling more secure
Glad you guys are, mostly, prepared.
This shows the house he builds for ya'lls next stage will be AMAZING
We had a tree fall down in our goat yard once and the goats loved climbing it 😂it’s like they thought that happened for them.
And, depending on the type of tree, the goats enjoy eating the greenery!
I love that Jackson was able to give you that needed perspective shift. Happy to hear that you and yours are doing well and that the kids are enjoying the time rather than finding fear and distress in it. Praying you get your power back quickly and that your whole area stays safe. Blessed be!
So glad you guys are OK!!! Watching your assessment of preparedness is helpful to all of us for identifying gaps in our own systems!!! ❤
After Hurricane Beryl, I decided this winter in canning 1 jar meals, banana bread, and brown bread. This way we don't have a lot of dishes needing to be washed. We fill 5 gal buckets for personal care. We fill the bathtub with a small bucket for flushing. We also use old laundry soap bottles for washing hands. We've learned from each storm.
Weather channels are showing all the western roads there as being closed! Wow. ❤
Another good water source is using those ibc totes as rain barrels. We have them all over our property. We have spouts off the roof of our little barn, chicken coop, and our home and rain fills the ibc totes. We use them to fill the animals water or water the garden. It’s not filtered to drink but it helps around the farm.
Fantastic. What a great idea.👏👏👏
So grateful you all are safe.❤
So glad your family is ok! Thanks for the updates!
The chainsaw noise takes me back to our bad storm that hit our homestead in June. Thank you for sharing. Till next time God Bless.
So glad that it wasn’t worse for you. ♥️🙏🏼♥️
💚 So good to hear from and see you. Thanks for posting again so soon! Taking inventory of your systems and backup plans affords great info and improved readiness measures! Love seeing you hand milking a cow again 😅 💚
Glad y'all are safe and doing well. This is a great experience for the boys to see lived out as well!
So thankful you are all OK!
So happy to see everyone is fine and you did not have any serious damage. God did bless you and that makes all of us happy!
absolutely cannot wait to order one of those water filter things from y'all
I’m so glad you and your family are safe.
Talk about perfect timing to have downsized and reestablished your farm the way you guys need it! As soon as I see your video with the storm going through I knew you guys would be ok in the aftermath. It may be stressful, but Jackson is right, this is what you guys have prepared for ❤
Don’t forget you have a tank full of clean and drinkable water in your water heater. ❤
When a storm is coming, in addition to filling your bathtub, put your washing machine on large load and run a cycle with no soap (to clean the drum). Then start another cycle and stop the machine when the tub fills. Holds a lot of useful clean water, and easy to dump what you didn't use; just restart the machine.
Those were water oaks. You need live oaks. I can send bare root seedlings and boatload of acorns
The problem I had with boiling water when Hurricane Matthew came through in 2015ish was what to do with the water while it cooled. I only had a few stock pots so had to wait on the water to cool so I could store it in the plastic containers I had before I could boil more water. You need containers that aren’t plastic to store the water in.
@@allisonhartley6712 great point. The crock from a crockpot or instapot or roaster is fairly large. But outside of that, my large pot availability is minimal. I’ve been wanting a oversized large stainless mixing bowl but storage is an issue
@@Jordan.M.-qb6kyI have large stainless bowls now and also a roaster. Didn’t have those then. But the roaster is a good idea.
A tip for canners who may see this...one thing I have started doing...instead of leaving empty jars on my shelves, I can water for emergencies. Shake before use so it doesn't taste flat. Hope this helps 🙏🏻
Nothing is more enlightening than going through the situation in real life. you'll be better prepared each time
SO glad you and your family are safe!!
For cleaning, hygiene, cooking, and drinking you should have estimate 5 gallons per person per day for building a rain catchment system!
Silly to lose the treehouse now 😂😂😂. I love the kids are having a great time.
Glad y'all are ok,
We have a generator to plug in necessary appliances and keep a dozen gallon recycled jugs filled with tap water for animal/human necessities. It’s not a whole house generator, but we love camping so during power outages we use those skills to survive. During Hurricane Sandy we were out of over for 3 weeks. At night we’d have a fire in the fireplace to help warm the house (October in autumn) and play board games by battery operated lanterns. Keep safe and yes, show your skills! ❤
Hurricane Hone took out power in my community for a few days, but we are off grid so we were fine. Homesteading makes you more resilient and able to handle emergencies for sure.
We have converted a small bedroom in our house into what we call our extended pantry. In there we have about 350 liters of drinking water plus the rain water tank outside for cooking and washing. As you say, this is a good test of your system. Good luck and stay safe.
It's Great that Jack reminded you to use your skills and to see where your weaknesses are. Pull your RV around. Use it's kitchen. Invest in several butane stoves. Small single burners heat food faster than propane and are not bulky and better yet... you can use them INDOORS more safely. Restaraunts use them tableside. Dehydrated and freeze dried meats are a must. So relieved you were safe!! God bless you.
I'm so glad you're all safe and have minimal damage. Have you considered feeding the tree limbs to the goats? My herd just loves when they get extra treats of leaves and brush.
We out a hand pump on our well and connected a generator to it, so when the power goes down, we can hand pump, or we can run the generator to fill troughs, or do dishes, and cook.
The key is to have a generator dedicated to the well, a generator dedicated to the house, and a generator dedicated to the barn.
Then, your only challenge is to have lots of fuel on hand.
Miah should video the tree clean up and post it in his workshop!!
I've watched you for years, so glad to hear y'all are okay! I live in WNC in Madison County we have been hit hard so hard I've never seen anything like it. Some counties around us are gone..bridges are wiped out..people are lost its really bad..really sad. We haven't had power, cell phones to contact loved ones. It's slowly coming back up but there's so much damage and loss. Remember my community and all of WNC as well as some of Tennessee its really bad you can't even fathom. We need all the prayers we can get.
Y’all were very well prepared to go through something like Helene. We, however, were not. While we didn’t suffer anything but rain, seeing videos like yours and talking to family that suffered much worse than we did and were very ill prepared, we are working on our preparedness immediately. Thank you for always being transparent ❤.
So glad to hear you are safe overall.. ❤❤
30 miles from Horseshoe Beach here and this was a huge test of systems. Hope and prayer for all effected. ❤
Hi Jess, it was GREAT to see you in Costco today. When I said Welcome to cola to you and the boys, I didn’t want to bring to much attention to you for privacy ❤
It was insanely busy in there. So happy to have you as part of our community 😘❤️
So glad your all untouched.❤️
Good to hear from you and hoping you get that electricity soon! Thanks for the update!
I am glad that you are all safe.❤
Jess, I am so glad to see this is all that happened to your family. We are in Georgia and I thank the good Lord we were spared at our home. I was ready with my generators, but it's not the same as the whole house having power. I bought the Berkey filtration system a few years ago and I am grateful for that too. I'll be praying for you all that the power comes back on sooner than later. Much love to you all
Thanks for the update. Glad you guys are ok. 🙏❤️
It's always good to be prepared...or on that path. Things others may want to consider...we just built our house with well water, along with hand held frost free pumps. We also have a free flowing septic. No power needed. Another thing is having appliance that are not digital. Hope all are safe!!
The good out of this is people can see where they need to improve their emergency preparedness ,i have a generator and water always put up with food for myself, animals but I'm not on a big farm so i dont have to worry about as many things. . sending Prayers 🙏🏼
The most important thing about preservation of water is to always keep it circulation that prevents the algae due to the oxidation. If you can keep your water circulating your in the good.
Best day ever for the kids 😂 They will remember this forever.
Stanley makes a great pour over coffee system. No coffee ground filter required and it’s made of metal. We use it all the time during electric outages and when we travel. In addition, when you are filling your jugs, buckets, tubs with water-boil water as hot as you can get it and fill every thermos you can find. Wrap the thermoses in towels and pack them in a box.
When we lived in Fla and had hurricanes and power outages my husband installed an old style hand pump from our water well so we atleast had water from our well.
Glad to see your all safe animals included.
We put a transfer switch on our electric box to be able to run our well pump on our small generator. It was the best thing we’ve done! It was cheaper than a whole house generator and everyone gets water when power is out 🙏🙌🏼
So glad to hear you all and Jackson are ok. I have never experienced anything like that and I cannot imagine what it is like. I am impressed by your attitude and Miah's carpentry!
We have 275 gallon water tanks under our gutters. We have 3 water tanks and a generator to run our well and frig and freezers
We wired our well pump, sump pump, freezers and furnace to switch to a separate circuit that we can plug a generator in
sending prayers to everyone
I live for years North Carolina outer Banks. Flooding hurricanes hurricanes coming through. A generator For house refrigerators and freezers are necessity. We always make sure to fill
all the animal Waters prior to the storm. Stay safe and happy doing well.
When our well went down and we didn’t have water, my rain barrels were a godsend! We were able to flush toilets using rainwater and had a couple gallons of bottled water already for drinking, brushing teeth and washing hands etc.
Sept, 28, 2024. I live in the Moncton, New-Brunswick Canada, in the Maritime, Atlantic Coast, so In the Maritimes, in the month of September, October, we have a few Hurrcaines, or Tropical Storms, we get lots of rain, flood, trees down, no power. and damages. Please stay all safe. I hope that you don't have to much or no damage on your proprety, your home, your business. and your Country, City, town, County. Community.
I'm glad you all are okay. We got hit by a tornado in February of this year and it was a big eye opener where we were lacking. Events are never announced, prepare for any day, any time.
Prayers for all.❤️✝️🙏