Rain Barrels

[Michael Thomas]

Suddenly, I'm seeing a lot of these at inspections in Chicago in the North Shore suburbs.

This morning was a great opportunity to watch them action as actually installed by typical homeowners....

[John Arnold]

It's important to have water stored to leak into your basement during droughts!

[Rick Cantrell]

What a convenient place for an electrical outlet to be located.
I guess it could be used to kill the mosquitoes in the barrel.

[Billy Stephens]

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Least We forget Dumping All That Water Against the Conveniently Located Foundation. ;)
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[John Kogel]

Looks like it's kinda wet there in the windy city. :( :( :(

[Mike Truss Guy]

FYI, in some western states it is actually illegal to collect rain water.

Rainwater Harvesting Poised To Grow In US West : TreeHugger (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/rainwater-harvesting-poised-grow-us-west.php?dcitc=weekly_nl)

[archivoyeur]

That installation is really not too surprising when you figure those rain barrells sell for $169 -$350 around here.

The person who would pay that much for a 30 gallon trach can is likely to be the same person who thinks it's working just fine.