After a real citywide boil order, houses were short 1 gallon per person per day already staged. One house said boiling about 25 gallons took roughly 2.5 hours. A food grade jerry can helped. Replies said boil smaller batches. That is what they lived, not a lab rule for every street. Boil notices show up after main breaks and storm work more often than people think. I work storm and utility outages in New Jersey, so I see that pattern on ordinary weeks. When the alert lands, the house needs a cle