Bleach will kill bacteria (at a high enough concentration), vinegar will not - it just makes it harder for them to grow and multiply, harder but not impossible.
Well you could call me a hoarder, but it is certainly not on purpose - just a bad habit. I do have enough canned food (both canned by me and purchased) to last for quite a while. Our biggest issue here would be if we had a major power outage in the winter- you can not live up here without heat. I could run my furnace (and the water pump, refrigerator and major outlets) with a generator, but you would have to have fuel for the generator. Eventually I want to add a gravity-feed gas fireplace for just-in-case cold weather outages. We are very fortunate to be surrounded by miles and miles of quite potable water, although I would likely boil it for drinking.
Mackinac Island, a big resort island located 3 1/2 miles offshore from us, had a 2-week summer power outage 10 years ago. The 3 underwater power cables that supply them all failed, and were VERY difficult to replace, both since they are underwater and very long. My generator went over to run the Lennox Hotel, a boarding house for the Island's biggest employers, housing and feeding hundreds of people (it is a very big generator!). They hauled in huge semi-sized generators to run the water plant and some of the big hotels.
Well you could call me a hoarder, but it is certainly not on purpose - just a bad habit. I do have enough canned food (both canned by me and purchased) to last for quite a while. Our biggest issue here would be if we had a major power outage in the winter- you can not live up here without heat. I could run my furnace (and the water pump, refrigerator and major outlets) with a generator, but you would have to have fuel for the generator. Eventually I want to add a gravity-feed gas fireplace for just-in-case cold weather outages. We are very fortunate to be surrounded by miles and miles of quite potable water, although I would likely boil it for drinking.
Mackinac Island, a big resort island located 3 1/2 miles offshore from us, had a 2-week summer power outage 10 years ago. The 3 underwater power cables that supply them all failed, and were VERY difficult to replace, both since they are underwater and very long. My generator went over to run the Lennox Hotel, a boarding house for the Island's biggest employers, housing and feeding hundreds of people (it is a very big generator!). They hauled in huge semi-sized generators to run the water plant and some of the big hotels.
