"Paco" > wrote in message ...
> ...here in Southern Vermont. Irene kicked our butts. My family and home
> were fortunate; power was out for 40 hours. No big deal, we've gone as
> long as 5 days. We packed the refrigerated items we'd need (milk, butter,
> etc) into coolers and stocked up on ice, filled the tub for toilet
> flushing, filled all of our large pots for drinking, cooking, etc. But
> surrounding areas were, and some, still are, devastated. Houses and roads
> gone. Folks stranded for days. Supplies being airlifted in by the
> National Guard. Patients being medivac'ed out. Spent the week helping
> folks out.
>
> Except on Friday. On Friday we had to take our son's 16 year old
> Dalmatian (our son is in the Navy) for one last visit. She had stopped
> eating dry food, then stopped eating canned food (yuck, but we tried for
> her). Then she stopped eating the chicken and rice we cooked for her.
> Then hardly drank any water. 3 different vets said her time had come. It
> was a very sad day. But Freckles is comfortable now.
>
> And now (Sunday, 8:30 PM, Eastern) we're in the middle of a string of
> thunderstorms. Tub is full. Pots are full. They're predicting up to 7
> inches of rain by Tuesday night. Here we go again.

Curious as to why you would need the water for the toilet? I know my friend
said she had to do that when her bathroom plumbing was being replaced
because the water was shut off.

But when we lived in military housing, they always told us to keep bottled
water for the toilets in case of a power failure. And yet the toilets still
flushed. AFAIK there was nothing electric connected to the toilet.