Water outage

In the winter in Minnesota it is not unusual to have a power outage although I am please to say we have not experienced one since moving back here.

But last night we had a water outage. It seems a pipe in the basement developed a leak. The water would have to be shut off for 9 hours to repair it and wait for the glue to dry. So we were notified water would be off from 9 pm last night to 6 am this morning. They recommended everyone fill their bath tub with water to use for flushing the toilets.

We don’t have a bath tub. Only a shower. Which normally is fine because we both prefer showers to baths.

What to do? What to do?

We went around the apartment collecting our plastic trash cans, filled them with water, and set them in the shower to be ready. And we put a bowl of water in the sink to use for hand washing.

I knew we could flush once using the reserve water in the tank. So, about 4 am, I flushed.

And the tank promptly refilled.

Apparently they were able to turn the cold water back on. We didn’t have hot water, though, until mid-afternoon.

It sure in nice to have someone else decide on and provide the fixes here.

So, we dumped out all those trash bins, dried them off, and returned them to their normal service.

And it was nice to have all that RV boondocking experience to know we could wash hands several times in just one bowl of water.

TTYL,

Linda