Well, one more pair of mods
Yes, No, and Maybe.
1. I have water purification tabs <-- But they are for streams with a big water boo in them, downhill from a ville in the jungle . They will keep you free of everything up to those white worms, but the water tastes like borax in gasoline.
2. The well is a drinkin' water well (capped), just not used for a silly $payoff reason.
3. The well in use for my house right now (five fargin feet away!) has sooper water.
4. I have checked the pipe test water (in jug to do the original volume gotten) = OK.
5. Emergency is emergency. Herself has not yet been shown how to make a Dakota fire pit. So we'll just drink it as it comes out. Just like a pump at a farm.
So if we get to #5, TS has most ricky-tick hit TF. At that point, you just trust the well and use minimum fire. Quote from that nasty Pawnee in Dances With Wolves: "Only a white man would make a fire in the open."
For not-so-bad-as-the-above emergencies, I have taught her how to make a volcano stove fire with the oak I have stacked in my outbuilding. It will hold a pot for cooking, etc.
LATE EDIT ADD: Re-read the above, and a thought smacked me: Jeez, I have, without planning, made some fargin real SHTF plans. Water, stored and constant food source, multi-year firewood stored, guns, swords, bayonets, etc., PM's Au/Ag/Cu, and located in a sane climate**
**The Unca Walt Location Selection Test:
Go out on the front lawn and lay down stark nekkid. If any of the following happens, the site has failed as a place to live permanently:
1. You die of exposure in 37 minutes (eg: picture my bro, Big's test result...)
2. The neighbors notice (double points if they call the cops)
I live now at the end of a dirt road that stops at a canal full of fish. My front yard is not visible from the road or the neighbors, and there is jungle on the far side.
So since all I would get is a sunburn and not death, it would appear my location suffices.
