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RE: Get Out of the Cities! Your Life Depends On It.

in #homesteading4 years ago

I'm out of the city (never actually lived in a city...) however, this area has no above-ground water except for a brief time after a big rain-- which happens maybe once or twice a year. It's not sustainable for long term human occupation unless the electricity stays on to power well pumps. The aquifer is now too deep for windmills to help much. I stay because my aging parents need more help all the time.

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Locally generated electricity will become easier and easier.
A generator will handle a pump.
I have some solar panels in that "state above yours" that would run the pump and a fridge.

Was a good investment.

Have you made any of these things (not remembering the word) basically tiny dams that catch the rain water and collect it so it goes into the ground instead of running off (with all the top soil too)?

Then you plant trees into them.

What is this "rain" of which you speak?

Also, if the aquifer goes dry no pump will help. Many people's wells have dried up over the past several years. Sometimes they can drill them deeper, sometimes that doesn't work.

Its a phenomena that happens every 5020 years, where "water" falls from the sky for 40 days and 40 nights washing all the communists away and clearing the land. ^_^

Water, from the sky... who'da thunk it?