Boil your water
We were driving across the lake yesterday when T got a text that there is a boil your water advisory in the city. Apparently on Friday night a power outage caused a drop in water pressure at the water purification plant and so as a precaution the city issued this warning. Although it is supposed to have been restored rather quickly the delay is they need to test the water extensively before we can safely assume it is okay to drink or brush our teeth with.
Fresh water into your house is something we just come to expect. We went and bought two cases of bottled water. We haven’t had bottled water in this house in a while as we moved completely over to a Brita system and never looked back. And since Hurricane Season is not officially over until the end of November, it’s probably smart to keep some water around since we drank our emergency supply when the water was shut off several times over the last month as they have been digging up Orleans Avenue for months now and keep hitting those old terracotta pipes underground.