Merely allow the sediment to settle and drink the water off the top. See to it you turn off the electricity or natural gas to your heater well before draining or it will be messed up! Crack an top faucet and open a lower hose bib or faucet to drain a few quarts of water out of your home's pipes.
Make use of water filters and treatment chemicals. I know from practical experience that most anyone will drink from awful, scummiest water shortly after having gone without any water for over a day in excessive heat! If you must evacuate your residential property, carrying a personal supply of water on your back will be very challenging (at a quart per person per day, a family of 4 might take in 150 lbs of water in 3 days).
Flooding waters are generally incredibly tainted with farm waste, human sewage, and industrial chemicals, so I strongly suggest that you buy a bacteriological back-country-type water filter system that has a carbon center to also eliminate hazardous chemicals, unpleasant tastes, and odors. You can chemically manage surface water with household tincture of iodine ( six drops per gallon) and pure chlorine bleach ( six drops per quart) and allowing water to set for 20 mins.
I design these items for a living, so I understand what I am speaking about. Boiling for just a single second will eliminate all water-borne living things, but will not do anything to take out harmful chemicals, bad tastes, and smells.
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