Got water?

[annuin]

Many things always seem to happen at the wrong times. Like today for instance, I'm in the bathroom earlier today about to have a shower, I flush the toilet and as I turn on the water in the shower I notice the water filling the toilet bowl is brown. So first I assume it's clogged or something, so the plunger gets whipped out, I plunge, I flush. It's then that I notice that the new water is brown also, and there's this strange earthy smell coming from it too. I look into the shower, and the water there is brown also, ditto the cold taps.

Augh! Of course this happens when you're just ready to step into the shower, not just after. Murphy's sodding law. So I cancel the shower, feeling more grimy than I am, just because of the fact that I can't shower. I call the landlady upstairs and ask her if her water's brown too, and yes, their cold water is also coming out nasty... she'd also noticed them digging at the end of the street as she came home from work. So she checks with the water department to find out what's going on, and it was some problem with the mains that they were working on. I'm not sure if the digging caused the problem, or they were digging because of the problem, not that much difference in the end result really.

Of course it took at least 8-10 hours before the water ran clear again, without smelling earthy or rusty or something icky. I'm just glad that I keep several gallon jugs of spring water around, cooking gets to be a lot more complicated when all of a sudden the water source gets cut off when you least expect it, and when meal plans include food that needs boiling.

Comments

[houseshadow.livejournal.com]

Plumbing problems and frigid weather seem to be quite popular lately. :P

[daskreestof.livejournal.com]

When I got home Friday morning our pipes were frozen so there was no shower for me then either. It cleared up by the evening, but the extreme cold did give me a little wake up call about how modern civilization spoils us, and we take these amenities for granted till their suspended. Kinda like the black out.

[vinlander71.livejournal.com]

Yeah sometimes our water's done that, but only if they've been digging down the road or working on the pipes in the ground. It's very annoying.
It would be nice to get some kind of advanced notice!