Complaints
Mar. 15th, 2010 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenWhat would a blog be without some good ol' complainin'? This last weekend was fun for the most part and even the bad, rainy, windy weather couldn't dampen it. Or could it?
Saturday night turned into a very late night out in the city with Matt's family and college friends - two vastly different venues with two intensely different crowds for two different reasons. His cousins got together for the bi-monthly dinner outing, and the friends were hosting a surprise birthday party for a set of twins - Matt's best friends. We were soaked for the second venue looking around a big building for the club "48" on 48th St. and 6th Ave. Went around the entire building almost losing both our umbrellas in the wind to find that we hadn't had to go around the building after all! The place was directly across from our parking garage. Yay.
Sunday was greeted with LOTS of sleep because we had to set the clocks forward. What was 1:00 PM to us became 2:00 PM. We still (on Monday now) feel like we're suffering from jet-lag. During the day, we realized that the water pressure was getting less and less. I remembered immediately what might happen without warning - loss of water. The good thing about our place is we're on the 3rd floor. Typically, water pressure will stay to some degree for much longer up to the 4th floor, so I took advantage of it. Buckets went into the tub and we filled the buckets awaiting the worst. We finally lost all water pressure by about 7:00 PM last night.
Due to the weather over the weekend, the electricity has been out at the township's main water pumping facility. We keep getting calls from the building manager, the board president, and the township - great communication, but not at 3:00 AM and 5:15 AM. We were woken up this morning (after 3.5 hrs sleep) to water spitting into the toilet tanks - thank goodness! I quickly got up and filled three buckets of water, flushed the toilets as they were so they were clean for the day (and put in bleach!). Sooo, we're good for the next 4-5 hours. If this keeps up, though, we're heading to a hotel somewhere for a day or so, till this is done. UGH!
It's amazing to realize how much we rely on that water being there and how important it is for our lives. We take it for granted. Losing electricity is not nearly as bad as losing water.
Saturday night turned into a very late night out in the city with Matt's family and college friends - two vastly different venues with two intensely different crowds for two different reasons. His cousins got together for the bi-monthly dinner outing, and the friends were hosting a surprise birthday party for a set of twins - Matt's best friends. We were soaked for the second venue looking around a big building for the club "48" on 48th St. and 6th Ave. Went around the entire building almost losing both our umbrellas in the wind to find that we hadn't had to go around the building after all! The place was directly across from our parking garage. Yay.
Sunday was greeted with LOTS of sleep because we had to set the clocks forward. What was 1:00 PM to us became 2:00 PM. We still (on Monday now) feel like we're suffering from jet-lag. During the day, we realized that the water pressure was getting less and less. I remembered immediately what might happen without warning - loss of water. The good thing about our place is we're on the 3rd floor. Typically, water pressure will stay to some degree for much longer up to the 4th floor, so I took advantage of it. Buckets went into the tub and we filled the buckets awaiting the worst. We finally lost all water pressure by about 7:00 PM last night.
Due to the weather over the weekend, the electricity has been out at the township's main water pumping facility. We keep getting calls from the building manager, the board president, and the township - great communication, but not at 3:00 AM and 5:15 AM. We were woken up this morning (after 3.5 hrs sleep) to water spitting into the toilet tanks - thank goodness! I quickly got up and filled three buckets of water, flushed the toilets as they were so they were clean for the day (and put in bleach!). Sooo, we're good for the next 4-5 hours. If this keeps up, though, we're heading to a hotel somewhere for a day or so, till this is done. UGH!
It's amazing to realize how much we rely on that water being there and how important it is for our lives. We take it for granted. Losing electricity is not nearly as bad as losing water.
