We have no water. A water main broke down the road. It's a mess.

[Bouncy Ball]

I called and they said they're "working on it" but it's going to "be some time" before it's fixed.

Meanwhile, no agua. Apparently been this way all afternoon.

I'm glad we have bottled water. Meanwhile, guess we'll be stinky tomorrow if they don't get it fixed by morning. The lady at the water utilities place said it's a "major break" in a main.

It's affecting lots of residences, too.

[xmas74]

1. I hate it when that happens!

Here's to hoping that they will fix it soon!

[shoelace414]

2. You too can be an Iraqi

just put blue ink on your finger... you already have the no water thing down.

[Bouncy Ball]

8. Funny. Just on Sunday at my UU church we were talking about

how having access to clean water is every human being's right and the UU church is going to be working on water access issues around the world and trying to keep corporations from turning it into a privately held commodity.

[Borgnine]

3. I hate when that happens.

I'm addicted to being clean. Usually I take two showers a day, and when I'm without water, I go mad.

My sympathies are with you.

[Bouncy Ball]

5. We don't freak out if we can't shower.

Neither one of us does a job that gets us dirty or sweaty in the least (how dirty do I get sitting in a chair?).

But yeah.....thanks!

[ewagner]

4. Happens all the time

around here......

freeze/thaw/freeze/thaw....repeat ad nauseum......pretty hard on water lines.....it a rite of March/Spring around here.....

[Bouncy Ball]

6. It's not the freezing thing here.

Dallas, Texas. We had one little snow right before Christmas and no hard freeze yet.

Dammit. BIG BUGS this summer.

[ewagner]

9. If not freezing

then just antoher good example of bad maintenance/low taxes in Texas......

[Renew Deal]

7. Is there a homeless shelter you can shower at?

Or even better, a public pool.

[Bouncy Ball]

10. Oooo a public pool in March!

Brrrrr!!!! :scared:

[Renew Deal]

11. There are indoor pools

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. Ugh! Can you afford a motel for a night?

Might be easier than trying to keep the kids clean. If they have an indoor pool, it'd be even better!

[Renew Deal]

14. Ever see Pulp Fiction?

A hose can work too.

[Jersey Devil]

13. Don't change the water in your fish tank

Sounds like a total non sequitur, but when we had a water main break I did a 20% water change in my fish tank (which I did every 2 weeks) and killed every damned fish in there. I found out later that when a main goes they superchlorinate the water and you have to use something like 20 times the normal dechlorination dose you usually add to the water to neutralize it.

[Bouncy Ball]

16. No fish here, Samantha the Beta died a few months back

after a long life. But that's interesting, I didn't know that.

[AutumnMist]

15. Just Make Sure To Boil Your Water or Use Bottled Water

even after its turned on. For a day or so. From what I have heard, the toxins and so forth can stagnate in the pipes. Good luck and I hope your water break gets fixed soon.

[Bouncy Ball]

17. Ewww, thanks, didn't know that!

Like I said, glad I just bought some bottled water the other day. Quite a bit, actually.

[AutumnMist]

22. P.S.

Flush your drains and pipes before drinking. It doesn't take long. Just make sure the water is clear and not rusty or cloudy. You should be fine. :) Enjoy the bottled water. It will do you good, as will your new water when its turned back on. :) Take care!

[RetroLounge]

18. The year we moved in, we had a main break out front

under the street. It was the neighborhood main. But the water didn'tnd it's way to the surface until it got under my front lawn. So we had a lake in front of the house. While my son and I were standing on the sidewalk watching the water burble up like a spring, the small bit of lawn between the sidewalk and the street began rising.

We turned around and the lawn was about 1 foot higher than normal, and then, WHOOSH! Geyser! Shot water like someone opened a fire hydrant, straight into the street. My son freaked and ran in the house. And then I watched the lake in my yard drain as the water shot out the other direction.

Then the einsteins in the village work crew backed there front end loader onto the drenched lawn and it sank 2 feet in, and they sliced up the lawn into shreds with huge ditches. They didn't come back for a month to fix it, and they planted shitty seed and we've been fighting invasive weeds ever since in that portion of the lawn.

They still haven't replaced the curb they tore out...

RL

[Bouncy Ball]

19. Geez.

In one house we rented, the drought was so bad that year, the foundation under the house cracked right down the middle and the main water pipe cracked. Soon we noticed the carpet was wet everywhere.

Ug. Glad we were renting that place and didn't buy it. The foundation was so messed up you couldn't open the front door (or if you did, there'd be no shutting it back again).

So we had to go out the back door or the garage and no electric garage door opener.

Crazy shit. Hound the city about fixing that curb.

[RetroLounge]

20. They are waiting until the next schedules street

repair. We are bound to get new streets soon...

RL

[trof]

21. DON'T FLUSH!

But you might add a little PineSol.
;-)