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No reason to panic buy TP.
Well yes, there can be a reason: Because people panic and shelves empty. I bought TP at Costco yesterday but only because we are down to our 'safety stock.' One of those big bricks of Kirkland TP lasts us a year but it just so happens we are running low right now. No. I am not going to buy three bricks of TP. I'm prepared for a crisis but not an apocalypse.

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We keep water too, but we also have a well. It needs electricity for the pump, but ours has a massive pressure tank (bigger than the two water heaters)...so hundreds of gallons there. You can buy a crank for most wells so you can pump manually.
We have 7-gallon jugs I fill at the 100 year-old artesian well downtown, which is a natural well running on natural water pressure (there is no pump). The jug fills in 40 seconds:

https://www.experienceolympia.com/directory/olympia-artesian-well/
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