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tomneal wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:14 am What about rotating your gas cans?
Fill them, then pull one each month and add the gas to your regular vehicle and refill the empty?
That could keep you will 'fresh' gas.

Any thoughts?

We do this too. Every three months we more it the vehicles and reload the cans with Sta-BIL and gas.

AndyC1911 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:24 pm

2farnorth wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:26 am I'll probably catch a bunch of grief for this statement but what the heck; A year from now most people will have forgotten that it happened and will be no better prepared for the next event.
Most families have only 3-5 days food on hand. With out electricity much of that will spoil.

2farnorth wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:26 am Keeping gas in cans for more than a couple of months is not advisable since it to will "spoil".

I actually did an experiment a few years ago:

I filled a 5-gal can with regular gasoline in July 2015 and added 2 oz of Sta-bil (from AutoZone) as per the instructions - cool little measuring method in the Sta-bil bottle, btw. In late November 2016 I used it and my car engine ran perfectly fine - pretty interesting considering that that gas had been stored in my garage for 16-1/2 months and gone through half a summer, a full winter and then a full summer again.

I'm not fond of the idea of keeping a flammable substance like that in the garage, but 1) I had no other place and 2) consoled myself that it was in a new military, metal jerry-can with good seals.

I always add Sta-BIL to my gas that is going to set a while I have yet to have problems.

This is just me, but I don’t believe we were caught by surprise. The News Meteorologist did an unusual great job. We were told at least a week in advance of the weather coming and it was weather like we haven’t seen in decades. I don’t know how many people listened and prepared, but we did.

We had more food than enough. We had water that was adequate for us and senior neighbors. That is without touching any of our emergency supplies. We had our generator ready along with 20 gallons of gas ready for our generator. I don’t know how long we could have went, but I feel we were prepared.

I know a lot of the parishioners of my church had a hard time. Having a 4 wheel drive F-250 became part of my ministry as we tried to take care of our elder members. It was definitely the storm of a century. A lot of of lessons should have been learned. Self preservation rather than government preservation.