For the first time in a long time, I have a woman asking me if I want to meet for a coffee.

I’d love to, but some fucking moron decided to dig without calling first and busted open a water main for the whole neighborhood and now I can’t even take a shower. I am about to go to the store to buy a bunch of jugs of water just so I can flush the toilet.

No timeline on when it’s going to be fixed, either.

Sometimes it really feels like the universe just likes to spit in my fucking face and then laugh at me.

  • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    (( Edit :
    Boil the water before using it. Consider it under boiling advisory.
    … - - see comments below ))

    cut the electric breaker to your hot water tank so you don’t burst and an eating heating element if there is lower water level inside the tank.

    Now you can use this tank as a water supply. You take water from the bottom tap of the water tank. Let the air come inside the tank by opening another top level hot water faucet anywhere inside the home. Be careful to (carefully) refill the water tank once municipal supply goes back on.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      No, do not under any circumstances use the hot water tank as a water source!

      This can be deadly!

      Legionnaires’ disease is bad shit.

      • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        2 months ago

        Just boil the water before using it. Consider it under boiling advisory.

    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Please don’t drink or use water from a hot water tank, it has to be kept warm for safety reasons.

      Legionaries disease. Deadly, please delete this advice.

      • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        2 months ago

        Just boil the water before using it. Consider it under boiling advisory.

        • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          Boiling it can run the risk of aspirating it before it’s dead.

          It’s just plain shit advice dude.

          Even flushing a toilet with it, now you’ve maybe contaminated the rest of your lines and flushed it into the air to breath. Great job.

          • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            2 months ago

            in the context : this guy wants to go to a date and he needs water now. So, for a few hours the water the in the tank is safe // if this guy has some brain - - and he looks like a very smart guy - - he will know how to handle this water. Otherwise, for stupid people : yes, your advice is good.

            For myself, i know how to sterilize water - - i don’t know about you … if you are in an emergency … in an earthquake situation … in a desperate situation … you may choose to do something special in such situations … if you think you have some survival skills.