Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to ruin a solid preparedness plan is to ignore the gross basics. When the grid is up, we barely notice sanitation systems doing the hard work for us. When the power drops or a hurricane, supply chain disruption, or long outage hits, toilets may stop flushing, trash starts stacking, and tap water can become riskier by the day. I’m Keith, and I’m taking our back-to-basics series into the part nobody loves talking about: emergency sanitation and personal hygiene ...