Water Update
8 Feb 2026 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ursulas_alcoveIt hit a high of 0 degrees F today. I checked our thermometer. Still no safe water. It appears now that an electrical outage occurred around 4 am Saturday morning. There was back-flow. The boil alert went out around 11 am. Power was fixed right away but my guess is the staff to test the water doesn't show up until Monday or else there are a lot of pipes to test. The list of affected townships is staggering. Over 95,000 people were affected. That might just be the number in Allegheny county. All of Washington county was affected. The current estimate to finish checking the safety of the water supply is Tuesday around midnight. It sucks.
I just rinsed my hands with some vinegar water. I have more cuts than is safe to take a shower in this. I have a lot of chapped and cracking skin. I grabbed two more quarts of canned water which I put away for emergencies. I also brought up more frozen water out of the freezer. The "no stove" nor water is wearing thin. Monday will warm up enough to start the car and go get propane.
I am quite hesitant to go shopping for a new stove. I don't know if the mouse died. No point in buying a replacement until I know for sure.
Amazingly, I saw a Starling today. The snow cover is still pretty deep but I put out fresh bird seed. The temps were negative last night again. It's hard to imagine that they predict 52 degrees on Tuesday.
I just rinsed my hands with some vinegar water. I have more cuts than is safe to take a shower in this. I have a lot of chapped and cracking skin. I grabbed two more quarts of canned water which I put away for emergencies. I also brought up more frozen water out of the freezer. The "no stove" nor water is wearing thin. Monday will warm up enough to start the car and go get propane.
I am quite hesitant to go shopping for a new stove. I don't know if the mouse died. No point in buying a replacement until I know for sure.
Amazingly, I saw a Starling today. The snow cover is still pretty deep but I put out fresh bird seed. The temps were negative last night again. It's hard to imagine that they predict 52 degrees on Tuesday.
