We have plumbers!
They have been shown the stop valve for the house, and are getting on with the pipework.

We used to have 3000 ltrs of stored rainwater in the garden, but we drained it all down and dismantled the tanks, as they would be in the way of the scaffolders...

We do also have some purification tabs but we should probably get some more bottled water in to top up the stores.

We're still maintaining our Brexit pantry, so we're fine for tinned goods, rice and pasta....

We went overboard with our garden rainwater storage a few years ago, and ended up with well over 4000 litres! We worked out that we could have flooded our little front garden to about 150mm deep!
We drained it all so recently to make space for the scaffolding.

We have purifying tablets somewhere, and did have a lot of stored drinking water but have since reduced that down for sensibleness, too.

It's also very handy if, for example, your car gets written off, and you can only get as much as your bruised ribs allow to to haul back from the shops in a trolley....

Don't ask me how I know this.

We're a bit short on lighters, but do have a Mapp gas blow torch.
It might be a bit extreme for lighting a tealight!
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Oh yes we have loads of tealights!

One day I really must have a go at the "how to open a tin of food without a tinopener" thing.

(you can file away the very top of the rim and that releases the lid. It can be done by scraping the top of a can on a concrete paving slab)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhT7VNRFkx4&ab_channel=Pratiks-VideoGuidesforlife

There's a box of matches in the kitchen drawer, and if all else fails I think I have a fire steel in my camping gear.

Oh no, we have a manual tin opener. I think I'm thinking more apocalypse-foraging from abandoned supermarkets. Although, the sensible looter remembers to loot a tin opener too...

you can never be too prepared.

Ah yes. We were immune to the Great Loo Roll Panic, due to my mother in law's pre-covid habit of bulk buying bargains. Anytime a pack of toilet rolls had extra free in it, she bought a pack every day when she went out. Some for her, some for us. We had about 200 rolls in stock!

It wasn't just toilet rolls, we had to tell her to stop buying the little wooden crates of clementines, as I don't eat them and Alfred couldn't eat enough!

Last night the bags of dried beans spouse panic bought in March 2020 became an exhibit at the Scout meeting. Need to stock up again. We’ve got the camping gear though (at least five different water filters + tablets), seven camp stoves, etc. After the power’s been off for a few days (had 3 five day + outages since 2011) we found mutual support works well. Know your neighbors, work together. Get everyone fed, warm, dry.

I've heard it said that the idea community is about 150 people, each bringing a useful skill for maintaining the community's needs.

Absolutely. Despite my frequent thoughts that I wish we didn't have to deal with Other People, with the right community, working together, humans can do amazing things.

That's the one. I've seen it mentiond in a range of friendship, relationship, and community terms.