Ya gotta stay hydroted!

 A few days-ish ago we got a notification in the mail that the City of Raleigh, which supplies our water, would be doing some maintenance and/or upgrades in our area for blahblahblahwhatever reason.  I failed to note the date of said maintenance, and thus I was surprised this a.m to see at least 6 City of Raleigh work trucks on our street, including a bulldozer thing on tank tracks that rumbled the whole damn house as it trundled to the end of the street.

FYI, this is our street.  It's amazing how long the trundling lasted to get that big boy to the dead-end bit.

Not gonna tell you which one we live in though.

Very soon after their arrival, the water got cut off.

And has stayed off for the last 9+ hours.

During which time I needed to use the loo, as they say, and not in a dainty way.  TWICE.

Therefore, I was today years old when I re-learned how to flush a toilet with some jugs of water we were saving for when we didn't have any water (like today!).  A gallon and a half in the tank, press the handle as normal, and wash your cares away.

Do not bother with the method that says to dump the water in the bowl itself.  DO NOT.  It doesn't work and you have to have the nerves and hands of a safecracker to get the flow just right.  Use the tank method, as many times as you need to with as much water as you have to spend on toilet flushing.

Here is it 5:30 p.m., and the water's just cut back on, but it'sa comin' out rusty, so we're purging the line for 10 minutes (all of which we will be charged for, I'm sure), let the icemaker go through a few rounds before we keep any more, and run all taps inside for a few minutes before resuming life in the 21st century.  AFTER we get the 'hi sign' that there are no contaminants in the water after the crew does their backfilling/line flushing.

18 to 24 hours from now.

2020, man.  What a ride.

Tiff out.