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my well pump died in an ice storm. the filter straw in my go-bag clogged in twenty minutes.

That was the day I stopped trusting gear I hadn't tested myself. Here's the only water straw that's earned a spot in my truck since.

Mike Griffith

I want to tell you about the worst three days I've had in my own house.

 

It was a few winters back. I still think about it every time the forecast turns.

 

It Started Like Any Other Cold Snap.

 

I live out past the county line. We're on a well out here, which I always thought was the smart way to be.

 

City water goes down, mine keeps running. That was the thinking.

 

I had a case of water in the pantry, a generator I'd never load-tested, and a hiking straw somebody gave me as a gift.

 

I figured I was in better shape than most people.

 

I wasn't.

then the ice came down and my water went with it.

The ice took the lines down about two in the morning.

 

I woke up to no lights, which I expected.

 

Then I turned on the kitchen tap.

 

Nothing.

 

Here's the thing nobody out here likes to admit. 

 

A well needs a pump, and a pump is just an electric motor.

 

Take the power away and the whole system between the water and your kitchen stops.

 

Same as everybody on city water, only I'd spent ten years believing I was different.

 

I stood there at the sink with my hand on a dead faucet feeling like an idiot.

i thought a case of water was plenty. it wasn't.

I had twenty-four bottles. I thought that was a lot.

 

It went in a day and a half.

 

Because drinking is the part everybody plans for, and it's the smallest part.

 

You need water to cook. To make coffee. To wash a plate. To brush your teeth. To clean up after the dog. To wash your own hands and your own face so you don't feel like an animal by day three.

 

Two weeks of water for a family of four is 56 gallons.

 

That's ten cases stacked in your garage, and it's still gone in two weeks.

 

The Store Wasn't Going To Save Me Either.

 

I drove into town on the second day. Ice the whole way.

 

You already know what the water aisle looked like. Bare metal.

 

The guy ahead of me had the last two cases in his cart and he wasn't sorry about it.

 

So I went home and got out that hiking straw somebody gave me.

 

There's a creek about four hundred yards behind my place. Runs high and muddy after a storm.

 

That straw clogged in about twenty minutes.

 

I sat on the bank sucking on a plastic tube that wouldn't pull water anymore, and that's when it landed on me.

 

I had the gear. The gear just didn't work.

that night, i made myself a promise.

Power came back on day four. Well kicked on. Nobody got hurt.

 

But I didn't sleep much that week.

 

Because I'd been telling myself a story for ten years, and the story was wrong.

 

I wasn't the prepared guy. I was the guy who'd bought things.

 

There's a difference, and I found out what it was the hard way.

 

So I made a promise.

 

Nothing goes in my kit again until I've tested it myself.

so i bought every straw i could find and put them through it.

That's how this whole thing started for me. It's why people ask me about gear now.

 

I bought them all. The twelve-dollar ones off the marketplace. The blue one everybody's heard of. The name brands. The no-names.

 

I ran them on silty creek water, not clean tap water, because clean water tells you nothing.

 

Here's what I learned, and it's the only thing you really need to know.

 

There are two classes of filter straw.

 

Almost all of them filter down to 0.1 micron. That's the standard, and it's built for a weekend hike on a clear mountain stream.

 

PureFlow filters down to 0.01 micron. That's ten times finer.

 

It's a different classification, not a slogan.

 

At that level it blocks 99.99% of bacteria and protozoa. E. coli, salmonella, giardia, cryptosporidium. The bugs that put people in the hospital after a flood. It catches microplastics too.

 

Not viruses, though. I'll come back to that, because it matters and I'm not going to skip it.

here's why pureflow is the one that stays in my truck.

Start with the part that fixed my creek-bank problem.

 

Sediment is what kills a filter. Not bacteria. Mud.

 

Push muddy water straight at a fine membrane and it packs up and quits. That's exactly what happened to me.

 

PureFlow runs the water through four stages before it ever reaches the fine membrane.

 

A coarse screen catches the sand and the visible junk. Medical-grade cotton takes out the fine silt.

 

A stabilizing layer evens out the pressure so it draws easy instead of feeling like a coffee stirrer. Then the 0.01-micron membrane does the fine work.

 

The first three stages exist to protect the fourth.

 

That's the whole reason it goes the distance.

 

One straw filters up to 1,800 gallons.

 

Drink a gallon a day and that's close to five years of water out of something the size of a marker.

 

It needs no power, no batteries, no chemicals, and no fire. You put one end in the water and you drink from the other.

 

Or you screw it onto a regular water bottle, fill the bottle with the dirty stuff, turn it over, and squeeze.

 

Now you're filling a pot or a canteen instead of putting your face in a creek. That's how you get water to more than one person.

 

And the answer to the question I get asked most:

 

No expiration date when it's stored dry.

 

There's nothing chemical in it to break down and nothing electric to fail. Keep it dry. Don't let it freeze, because freezing wrecks the hollow fiber. If you do use it, let it dry out before it goes back in the bag.

 

That's the entire maintenance schedule.

 

It's third-party tested for bacteria and protozoa removal, and pressure-tested for membrane integrity and leak resistance. It's made with FDA food-contact-compliant, BPA-free materials.

 

The twelve-dollar ones are untested factory parts in a plastic tube.

 

Don't gamble on water.

i'll be straight with you, the way they were straight with me.

PureFlow is a filter. It is not a purifier.

 

It takes out bacteria, protozoa, sediment, and microplastics. It does not take out viruses. It does not take out dissolved chemicals or heavy metals like lead.

 

They say that on their own website, plain as day.

 

Nobody else's straw does those things either. They just don't bring it up.

 

Anybody who tells you one little straw handles every threat in every water source is selling you a lie.

 

If viruses are your concern, you pair it with tablets or a UV pen. If chemicals are your concern, that's carbon or RO. That's how layers work, and any honest gear guy will tell you the same thing.

 

For creek water, floodwater, pond water, or a tap you stopped trusting, this is the right tool.

 

I trust PureFlow more because they told me what it doesn't do.

i wasn’t the only person who felt this way.

They’ve sold over 56,000 of these little straws, and they have more than 4,500 reviews. 

 

I read a stack of them before I bought. Plenty were guys like me. People who got caught short one time and decided never again.

 

So I didn't buy just one.

 

Two is one and one is none. You've heard it. But it's simpler than that.

 

A straw in my truck does nothing for the guy sitting in my kitchen.

 

So there's one in the go-bag. One in the truck. One in my wife's car. One in the camper.

 

Then I bought a few more and handed them out. One to my daughter, one to my son-in-law, one to my neighbor who plows me out every winter.

 

Nobody needed it explained to them. Everybody was glad to have it.

 

The multipacks are the only reason I could cover everybody in one order instead of putting it off another year.

one decision, and everybody i care about is covered.

Here's what actually changed for me.

 

I stopped running the what-ifs at two in the morning.

 

I made one decision, and now water is handled. Not for a week. For years.

 

The next ice storm is coming. You know it and I know it.

 

I'm not going to be the guy on the creek bank with a clogged straw again.

 

I'm going to be the guy who already took care of it.

 

That's worth a whole lot more than what these cost.

they’re on sale right now, but these sell out fast.

I checked this morning and they're running a sale.

 

I'll tell you what I've watched happen every single year. The shelves clear the day a storm hits the forecast.

 

Nobody buys this stuff calm. They buy it in a panic, and by then it's gone.

 

Do the easy thing now so you don't have to do the hard thing later.

 

It's backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee.

 

If you want to get the PureFlow Emergency Water Filter Straw for you and your family, click the button below to go to the PureFlow website. 

 

If I remember correctly, they're having a special sale right now where you can get them for up to 67% off.

 

Get one for every person and every vehicle. Trust me, you'll be glad you did.

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PS. My son-in-law told me he didn't need one. I put it in his glovebox anyway and didn't say anything about it. Three months later he texts me a picture of it sitting on a truck seat somewhere in Tennessee with the words "you were right." That's about the most I'll ever get out of him, and it was worth it.
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