We awoke this morning to find that we had no running water. It turns out that the Dublin City Council is currently rationing water! That's right...water rationing in Ireland.
There is a reason behind it (supposedly). With the "extreme" cold over the past few weeks (in the teens and 20's) the water lines below ground froze and burst and are now leaking water into the ground depleting the city's water supply. In order to conserve those reserves until the unknown number of pipes is fixed they have begun a "rolling blackout," if you will, of water service. The council has no time table for fixing the pipes but suggests that it could be 6 months before service is back to normal.
I'm no expert on water pipes but I would think that if the pipes were even 1' in the ground it would have protected them from that level of cold. Apparently they aren't even that deep. Just another example of the Irish ethic and ingenuity.
We gotta get out of here!
2 comments:
so how much water are you getting?
It is turned on for a little while in the evening. By morning there is none.
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