We have almost no water pressure, and sometimes all that comes out of the tap is air. Here at the in-laws, there's a swimming pool, so buckets of pool water are enabling us to continue with our attachment to indoor plumbing.
We're not staying here, just glomming off their electricity several hours a day.
I saw a fellow being interviewed on TV. He said "I wasn't expecting it to be this bad. I didn't prepare and now I'm paying the price." We all nodded. This water situation has us all worried. The nice thing is, a cold front came down, so the weather is beautiful. This would be way worse if there was the usual sweltering heat. They're saying the electricity could be out for a month, but I'm sure it'll be fixed before that. We have plenty of gasoline here, but no electricity to run the pumps.
In any case, we'll be partaking of a pioneer lifestyle for a bit.
Posted by floridacracker at October 25, 2005 12:16 PMWell, there's always the old fashioned, artful method of suction fer the gasolla.
I write, "artful," because there's a talent to it to avoid a mouth full o' gas.
Good luck down there, Donna...a pool full of water is a beautiful thing, particularly under the current circumstances.
Got a bicycle?
Posted by: -S- at October 25, 2005 12:41 PMManual pumps, too, if you can access the tank (o' gas in the ground, wherever).
Posted by: -S- at October 25, 2005 12:42 PMI just can't understand FPL's inability to bury power cables in South Florida. I would think that if a small city like Jacksonville Beach can bury its cables, FPL could do it. With all the hurricanes and tropical storms over the past 14-months or so, my power has been out a total of about 20-minutes.
Posted by: Juan Paxety at October 25, 2005 03:43 PMGlad to hear y'all are OK, but why are you doing anything? Surely you should be sitting around bitching, and waiting for the gummit to do sumpin?
Posted by: Paul at October 26, 2005 04:32 AMNo, we don't wait for the government. We're not calling FEMA either. Hell, we're not even going to try to file a claim on our insurance.
Posted by: Donnah at October 26, 2005 05:15 PM