And So It Goes

[la_samtyr]

Today has been... a headache.

First, the lights went off all over town this morning. Only briefly, but still had to reset stuff. And I was in the middle of doing "other stuff" online.

Then, about 2:30pm this afternoon, the water main broke. No water all over town. Yikes. It's a good thing I am in the habit of keeping bottled water on hand. At least I have a good excuse for not doing dishes. Hopefully the water will be back on later tonight. I hate not being able to use the bath, etc.

I might have to eat out-of-town tonight as a result because everything I planned to fix requires water. :( Meh.

Comments

[ysilme]

That sounds quite annoying, and all in one day, too! This water thing must be something quite major, I imagine, if it affects all the town and lasts for so long?

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

It's more annoying and an inconvenience than anything else. This is a very small rural town -- less than 1000 people -- and we only have one well. But luckily everything seems to be fixed now, though they might have to do further repairs tomorrow.

[ysilme]

Ah, I see; it didn't occur to me that it could be the source. I sometimes forget that other, much larger countries than ours don't necessarily have a system of long-distance water supply like we have, or not everywhere. In most communes, the wells are still in use - not in our tiny village, as the pressure is too low; instead, we can use the well water for free at a pump if we desire - people with allotments or fields often fill large containers there for watering.
What made me smile was your "very small rural _town_" - in densely populated Germany, the village I live in is considered quite a small one, with just over 2000 inhabitants! :o) The age-old feudal structures are sometimes still palpable in small things like these.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Hope you get the water back and tomorrow is a better day.

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

The water is back on now and hopefully the repairs will be official by tomorrow.

[maglor-20.livejournal.com]

Ick. I'm sorry about all this trouble. No water can be very annoying.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Good grief - both on the same day!

I would find the electricity cut, no matter that it was fairly brief, more annoying than the water one - for the very reason of having to go around resetting so many things.

Like Ysilme, I think of anywhere with such a small population as a village - even on our small island we have at least four or five villages with a larger population than that, and our smallest town (which many people from England think is so small it should also be a village) has a population of 3,000.

I think the main criteria in Britain generally for a village to become a town is that it should have historically have been the place of a market - so you rarely find a village with a 'market square' or 'market place', and rarely find a town where there isn't, still, somewhere with that name, even though they no longer hold the market there. But anywhere with less than about 2,000 inhabitants is likely to be classed as a village anyway.

I wonder what the criteria are to become a town, not be a village, in the USA?