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Well THIS Happened

Anonymous032819 — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:44:32 GMT

Last night I went to bed at about 9:30pm, and was asleep soon after.

When I got up this morning, I went out to the kitchen and turned on the faucet.

No water.

I was 99% sure that I had paid my water bill.

In fact, I even went on line to make sure that I had, and sure enough, I had a zero balance.

Also, it was not anywhere near cold enough for pipes to freeze.

I went out on my back deck, and I could see flashing lights, and hear the engine of a heavy vein on the next street over.

Hmmmm.

Something was going on.

Could one have something to do with the other?

I went past the street, and saw a backhoe and a city vehicle.

I got on line and learned that at 10pm last night, city water main broke and flooded the whole street!

Ohhhh!

So that's why I don't have any water!

So, no coffee, no shower, and worst of all, no toilet.

Ugh!

Hopefully they'll have it fixed soon!

Because I do like having the ability to flush!😄

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haddon9 — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:46:30 GMT

Well that stinks! I hope you have some bottled water to tide you over until it's fixed...hope it's soon!

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tends2dogs — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:48:26 GMT

I hate when that happens! It sounds as if they are working diligently to get it repaired. Hopefully, you will have water soon. In the meantime, can you get a to go coffee somewhere? Maybe bottled water and some instant could get you through?? Hang tough.... We really do depend on modern conveniences, don't we?

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CalminHeart — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:50:06 GMT

I feel your pain. Our entire city lost water for 10 days after massive flooding. The water was so high that it ran over the hills and barricades surrounding water plants. The National Guard set up water tanks all over the city so we could take our gallon jugs to fill. It was a pain. It's amazing how creative people got.

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AuntG — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:56:00 GMT

Hope it is fixed soon.

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Pearlee — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:02:54 GMT

Well, that's life. Deal with it.

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Harpa — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:04:14 GMT

At least you know they're working on it! Hope it's repaired soon!

I can do w/o the coffee, there's always dry brushing, and the toilet can wait, but not having water to wash hands would be unbearable! If you don't have wipes, you could simply use dish soap and wipe off w/ a towel.

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goldensrbest — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:12:57 GMT

Get in your car,go buy a cup of coffee.

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Pearlee — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:15:57 GMT

Always keep bottled water around; then you can wash your hsnds.

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SharkE — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:18:44 GMT

Don't know what city people can do, but, when I used to live out in a country area and owned 20 acres. We could go between buildings. Our city water meter would freeze up in Ind. Husband would have to use blow dryer to thaw it out. After that we kept a rug over it down in the water meter hole.

Unlike some of the posts you got I'm SORRY you have to deal with this due to no fault of your own. You have to consider the source in the rude people who are allowed to be in the forums.

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fancy pantsy — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:23:07 GMT

i am so sorry to hear this!

i have to tell you though, that i broke out in a cold sweat when i was reading your post. i am STILL recovering from a ruptured bowel in June 2019 and i have to use the bathroom sometimes 15 to 20 times in the morning

getting a cup of coffee would not have been my priority under your circumstances LOL ~

hope your water is back on soon!

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Anonymous032819 — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:31:52 GMT

@SharkE wrote:
Don't know what city people can do, but, when I used to live out in a country area and owned 20 acres. We could go between buildings. Our city water meter would freeze up in Ind. Husband would have to use blow dryer to thaw it out. After that we kept a rug over it down in the water meter hole.

Unlike some of the posts you got I'm SORRY you have to deal with this due to no fault of your own. You have to consider the source in the rude people who are allowed to be in the forums.

@SharkE

I know, right?

I am taking this in stride, because I know that old pipes fail, and that it will be fixed.

Ship happens.

Some people consider coffee vitally important, (I don't), so I was going for levity.

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Lipstickdiva — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:35:16 GMT

I would think that once this is fixed, you will have to boil your water for a certain amount of time.

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Trinity11 — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:38:44 GMT

Sending a prayer that it gets fixed quickly @Anonymous032819 . Ignore the hurtful responses. Reading her makes me think her water must be turned off every day making her a cranky .......

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Lucky Charm — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:39:34 GMT

I hate to think of all the water wasted, but hopefully it flows back to where it came from. I guess that's the best possible way to look at it, if that's how it goes.

I remember a water main breaking on our street and of course the water was turned off.

But we were told to empty out our water heaters and flush them out a couple of times. Sometimes soot from around the broken pipes will make it into your pipes.

If you don't, you will have dirty water coming out of your faucets, shower/bath, washing machine, dishwasher, well, everything that's hooked up to water.

Your water heater will be ruined. And any other appliances that you continue to use without flushing your water heater out.

I know people that had this happen to. They used the dirty water for days! I told her I'd come over and empty out her water heater (her husband was useless), but it was too late.

They took out the extra policy from the water company for disasters like this, as did I. But nothing was covered, she had to replace her water heater and I think her dishwasher.

Our side walk was cracked from the water pressure and they wouldn't pay for that either. Dropped that policy when the period was up!

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Marp — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:44:29 GMT

FINALLY, a positive to being dependent on electricity to have water (well). I'm always prepared with a few jugs of water on hand for flushing and other non-consumable purposes, as well as bottled water for consuming and cooking.

No power=no water=a downside to rural living.

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Lipstickdiva — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:48:43 GMT

@Lucky Charm , the water just goes wherever it goes when there is a flood of any other type. Hopefully they caught this early enough that there wasn't too much water. My DH fixes these breaks for a living. They've had mains break and water shooting up into the air like a geyser. Sometimes this will go on for hours because it happens in the middle of the night and no one notices it right away.

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vermint — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:58:20 GMT

@Anonymous032819 Not having running water is a pain! We're on a well, so like some others have said, no power equals no water (at least, once our 50-gal reserve tank runs out, which has happened any number of times).

Luckily, we live on a pond, so DH will get 5 gallon buckets of water there for toilet flushing, and we drink bottled water anyway, but not being able to shower just drives me nuts. I can deal with a lot, if I can have a nice warm shower first, lol!

Hope your water is back on soon!

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Pook — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:23:04 GMT

@Anonymous032819 I learned a long time ago to always have a lot of water jugs around for cooking, washing and flushing the toilet. You can always put a garbage bag in the toilet so you do not have to flush. I grew up with a septic tank and when there was a problem often it would take a couple of weeks to get someone to take care of it so we had to garbage bag it and then we would bury the bags in the wooded area of our property.

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