Yesterday,
We went with my uncle to try to get a few extra bottles of water for his place in the city. All the stores we tried, were completely out by 1030hrs. Most had line ups at 0600 waiting for the doors to open. According to mainstream media interviewing supply chain management types, there is still a supply on bottled water in Calgary, but due to volume of customers in stores, shelves are not being restocked in a timely manner.
This morning I dropped by Walmart in Okotoks, they had 3x skids, of 500mlx24 bottles packages at the main entrance and another skid at the alternate entrance. I got 2x packages to take back to my uncle's place after work tonight.
Definately, less stress and hustle with the shoppers in Walmart today than the shoppers yesterday in Calgary.
Not sure how this plays out in other smaller centres around Calgary, but as of this morning Okotoks was a pleasant experience for shopping for bottled water.
Mountainman.
Yesterday here in Brooks at Water Pure & Simple the owner was telling us people from Medicine Hat had been coming there all day for water as Med Hat & Redcliff were sold out, there was a fight over water in Walmart also...Medicine Hat is saying that there will be water restrictions (no watering your lawn) but there will be no problems with the water supply
Luckily for the people of Medicine Hat, there should be no need to water lawns 😉
All this and despite all the rain coming down even here in Central AB, it made me realize how little I have for water here at home. I've just picked up 2x 25L water Jerry cans at CTC on special. It's not tons but it adds to what I have. I suppose that in a pinch I could run the rain barrels' water through the Berkey...
We have over 30-5 gallon jugs on racks and when we have a distilled water bottle or plastic juice container empty I fill it with tap water and put it on shelves in the bsmt (that water from tap is good for 5 years) and we have about 100 or more of those
Luckily for the people of Medicine Hat, there should be no need to water lawns 😉
All this and despite all the rain coming down even here in Central AB, it made me realize how little I have for water here at home. I've just picked up 2x 25L water Jerry cans at CTC on special. It's not tons but it adds to what I have. I suppose that in a pinch I could run the rain barrels' water through the Berkey...
Redcliff and other places were included in the water restrictions even though they are way above Medicine Hat...lol but I do appreciate your humor!
In Airdrie there was a fight at superstore over water,when I went to Cambodian Tire there were harsh words between two people over water,I just needed extra gas for my generator all self contained.
Not much sympathy here.
Water from the tap is free, thousands of 2l pop bottles thrown away daily. Should never be any need to buy it at the store.
Not much sympathy here.
Water from the tap is free, thousands of 2l pop bottles thrown away daily. Should never be any need to buy it at the store.
I prefer reverse osmosis water, hate fluoride in my water and need distilled for my CPAC Machine
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/06/22/calgary-price-gouging-floods.html?cmp=fbtl
"One man photographed a receipt showing that he paid $48.72 for a pack of 24 bottles of water, commenting on twitter, "Talk about taking advantage of a society in crisis."
wow, something that you could normally stock up on and have for two to three dollors, is reported to be sold for pretty much 49 dollars, the really sad thing is someone paid that for it.. suddenly makes the idea of having some cash put away seem both good and not that useful at all.
I mean how would you figure out what that cash would be worth in terms of use if you can see this kind of price increase.. of course the best answer would be to spend that 50 on the cases at two or three dollars and life straws to take with you if you need to leave that water behind..
http://livingmydreamlifeonthefarm.wordpress.com/
From what I understand what they were doing was breaking open flats of water and selling individual bottles at $2 each... Not the flat itself. I did see ice for $20 at gas stations though
See you all after.
Reading the comments section it goes on to say that the regular price for bottled water at a gas station is about $2. They don't seel the flats of bottles so they are selling at the REGULAR price of 24 x $2... The issue is that these people took no responsibility for their own needs then whine when they have to pay through the nose. No sympathy here.
JAB
Like most people they simply did not think ahead.
Heard a senior today on CBC radio, who lives on the 29th floor in a condo in downtown Calgary. He couldn't understand why everyone didn't do what he did, which was fill his bathtub before the power went out. Said everyone had at least 24 hours to lead time to get it done.
"It was me - I let the dogs out!"
This is why we have a 250 gallon incaseof tank in our basement...
http://www.incaseof.ca/ico-supertanker
Okay, the water is fine, now go drop off those flats of water to the people doing the hard labour cleaning out neighbourhoods.