10-05-2024, 07:19 PM
(09-30-2024, 03:12 PM)Dav Wrote: Hey, Steve, how did you do with the storm? We got our power back on last night. My family member in Asheville says they have no water, no internet, barely any cell service. One grocery and one gas station is open, loooooong lines. They can’t get out of the area. Wish I could bring her some supplies but there’s no way in either for the general public apparently.
- Dav
Update: I guess the locality around here got hit harder than I thought it did. Me, personally, I guess I'm a self-contained hermit. As long as they pump power my way, I'm happy. If they don't, I have generators and thus I'm happy. My water comes from a natural spring on my land. My sewer and such are all self-contained. I'm not hooked up to almost anything public except telephone and electric.
And that's where the issue seems to come in. https://www.yahoo.com/news/boil-water-no...05153.html
The storm was a couple of weeks back now, but apparently it flooded and wiped the heck out of the local water infrastructure. I went to town today and for the first time in several weeks, I ordered some fast food. No tea. No coffee. Wendy's has no chili or taco salads. No soda out of the machines... Everything in the whole dang county was shut down with a BOIL WATER advisory. Even after all this time, we apparently don't have water that's safe in the urban areas for people to use for drinking or cooking!
Which makes me damn glad that I'm an old-time hobo farmer and independent from all these public resources!!
But Good God! How the heck could I have missed a local "boil water" requirement for two weeks?? Am I really that out of touch with reality and that big of a recluse?!
/SIGH
Now I just feel old and out of touch with the world around me.