Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Florence's legacy

The Bermudian phone book is quite a resource of information, not just phone numbers but all sorts of other stuff. Like satellite pictures of Bermuda--very cool.
And in one section it talks about water management.

Bermuda has very little natural sweet water. Most of our water supply is stored rain water.
Now, when a hurricane passes by with its low pressure, the oxygen level in the stored water drops and the water begins to smell rotten. And that's what happened to our front water tank (our house has two tanks).

So, enter the phone book:
In case of the water smelling like rotten eggs, aereate it.
Connect a hose pipe to the water pump under the house, run it up to the roof and let the water flow back into the tank. Well, I didn't do the roof, but just opened the cover of the water tank and let the water splash back in.

There are things in life you never know, do, or experience, until you venture outside your usual box.

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