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Emergency Water

By Mike Riversdale / Thursday, May 14, 2020

Here's a thing my UK family and chums will have no concept of - around the home I have many many bottles of water stored for when an earthquake hits.

Everyone in NZ does, or should: https://getthru.govt.nz/emergency-survival-items

#earthquake #eqnz

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