So my Mom called last night, apparently sometime yesterday morning their small community suffered a water main break (outside of town) that turned off water to the entire area. Worse yet the city was working on the reservoir and so it was empty, i.e. no back to up to the water line coming into town. They received a robo call from city hall saying it could be 2-3 days until water is restored and that bottled water would be delivered to shut ins.
My Mom was already on her way to the grocery store to pick up some fresh fruits and veggies when the call came in. She arrived to find a crowd of people angry because the bottled water was all gone and the truck that was supposed to have more still had not arrived. And this is small town America where everyone knows each other and they still post things in the news paper like "Betty Johnson's grand kids visited from Texas, a good time was had by all". Yet they were foul mouthed and mad that no one was catering to their immediate needs, and clearly none of them were prepared at all. She said she just turned around and went to the liquor store. They have a machine that dispenses filtered water into gallon jugs that apparently no one else thought of. She grabbed 4 gallons and checked out. No one was in the store expect her and the clerk. Of course my parents being the prepared type (not preppers, just old school) already had several cases of bottles water on hand along with several gallons bottles of drinking water. But my Mom wanted to be able to help out their neighbors in case they did not have any water. And sure enough the woman next door with 2 small kids had no water on hand and my Mom gave her 2 gallons. My Dad had already filled a number of 5 gallon pails with snow that once melted would make the toilets flush or could be boiled and consumed. Apparently none of those people at the grocery store realized snow (which they have in mass abundance) was really just water
Not exactly a major crisis, more like an inconvenience, but just another reminder of why have supplies on hand is always better than relying on the gov't or someone else to provide for you.
My Mom was already on her way to the grocery store to pick up some fresh fruits and veggies when the call came in. She arrived to find a crowd of people angry because the bottled water was all gone and the truck that was supposed to have more still had not arrived. And this is small town America where everyone knows each other and they still post things in the news paper like "Betty Johnson's grand kids visited from Texas, a good time was had by all". Yet they were foul mouthed and mad that no one was catering to their immediate needs, and clearly none of them were prepared at all. She said she just turned around and went to the liquor store. They have a machine that dispenses filtered water into gallon jugs that apparently no one else thought of. She grabbed 4 gallons and checked out. No one was in the store expect her and the clerk. Of course my parents being the prepared type (not preppers, just old school) already had several cases of bottles water on hand along with several gallons bottles of drinking water. But my Mom wanted to be able to help out their neighbors in case they did not have any water. And sure enough the woman next door with 2 small kids had no water on hand and my Mom gave her 2 gallons. My Dad had already filled a number of 5 gallon pails with snow that once melted would make the toilets flush or could be boiled and consumed. Apparently none of those people at the grocery store realized snow (which they have in mass abundance) was really just water
Not exactly a major crisis, more like an inconvenience, but just another reminder of why have supplies on hand is always better than relying on the gov't or someone else to provide for you.
