[jtdraig]

I was in Winn Dixie yesterday getting a few things non-hurricane related when I chanced to talk to a woman who was in a pure panic. She asked where she could get bottled water? She was borderline desperate. I just told her that she had all the water she could store if she just filled her pots, pans, odd glass bottles, etc. She was very grateful. I didn't want to seem like Captain Obvious. So thought I would post a reminder. Plastic gallon containers can be refilled to flush toilets. Glass and metal containers can be washed and filled with good drinking water and then covered. Trash cans can be rinsed and filled with water for flushing. Tubs can be filled. Top loading washing machines can be filled. Plastic bottles of water are nice but when they are gone there are lots of alternatives.