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Water, Water Everywhere (Wait, No)
Jun. 30th, 2010 06:35 pmUgh, what a day.
The town's water main (apparently we only have one?) broke in the middle of the night last night, so when I woke up we had no running water. We did have drinking water, since we use a water cooler (decadent, yes, but you'd invest too if your arsenic levels were this high), but drinking water and no toilet is not the greatest combination ever. I ended up at my grandma's all afternoon, scrubbing showers and washing window blinds and putting curtains up and just generally getting sweaty and filthy. Since we still didn't have water at 4.00 when I got home, my dad vetoed cooking dinner on the grounds that we wouldn't be able to do dishes afterwards, so we went for take-out instead. Unfortunately all the fast-food/take-out places near us were closed, because the water was out for the whole town, and he didn't want to go into a sit-down restaurant without being able to take a shower. So we ended up driving for an hour through rush-hour traffic to get fried chicken in Albuquerque.
We finally got our water back a few minutes ago (about 16 hours after it went out - nice job, Bernalillo). And I am sticky and headachey and grumpy and exhausted, so I am going to take a damn shower and curl up with Jeeves and Wooster and just...not think for a while. Possibly I will just go to bed altogether.
The town's water main (apparently we only have one?) broke in the middle of the night last night, so when I woke up we had no running water. We did have drinking water, since we use a water cooler (decadent, yes, but you'd invest too if your arsenic levels were this high), but drinking water and no toilet is not the greatest combination ever. I ended up at my grandma's all afternoon, scrubbing showers and washing window blinds and putting curtains up and just generally getting sweaty and filthy. Since we still didn't have water at 4.00 when I got home, my dad vetoed cooking dinner on the grounds that we wouldn't be able to do dishes afterwards, so we went for take-out instead. Unfortunately all the fast-food/take-out places near us were closed, because the water was out for the whole town, and he didn't want to go into a sit-down restaurant without being able to take a shower. So we ended up driving for an hour through rush-hour traffic to get fried chicken in Albuquerque.
We finally got our water back a few minutes ago (about 16 hours after it went out - nice job, Bernalillo). And I am sticky and headachey and grumpy and exhausted, so I am going to take a damn shower and curl up with Jeeves and Wooster and just...not think for a while. Possibly I will just go to bed altogether.