Waterless

Ezra and I walked home from work yesterday to find our local apartment manager at the house trying to call us. Apparently there has been a leak (we could always hear water running through the pipes in our walls but I didn’t think much of it) somewhere below the house and it’s gotten to the point where water was seeping up through the concrete. They checked our apartment to make sure it wasn’t coming from us, and then went downstairs to investigate further.

We went grocery shopping, came home and put everything away, then found out that they had broken through the floor downstairs and water was spouting up. They were going to turn the water off, work on it tonight, then come back and continue in the morning. What did that mean for us? We would have no water from when they turned it off last night to an undetermined time today. The manager apologized and then suggested we fill anything we could with water. Which we did. Mixing bowls, pitchers, the bathtub, etc.

Some of our bowls of water.

What else did we do? What any 21st century social networked couple does! We put out a plea on Facebook to see if any friends would let us crash for the evening. A few minutes after the plea was posted I got a phone call and invitation from some good friends, the Despains. Ezra and I went over there and stayed the night. We showered, did everything we could that required water and then came home this morning. We got home at about 9:20 and they were hard at work (I hope), but still no water. Ezra forgot to take his razor and looks pretty scraggly so we decided not to go to church. We ended up watching some sessions from General Conference that we missed when we were working.

That truck and trailer have been a constant fixture outside our house as they continue to work.

The water has been off and on for the last few hours as they continue to work. I’ve managed to get all our dishes washed when it’s on, and we rush to use the bathroom and refill any empty bowls of water when we have the chance.

You’d think (and we did) that we could just put buckets of water from the bathtub into the toilet so that we could use it when we needed, but when we tested that last night it didn’t work. We have an old ghetto toilet, so we just rush when the water is on.

Hopefully everything will get fixed tonight so that we can stay home rather than bum off of friends again, not that we don’t appreciate our friends’ hospitality, we just really like our own bed. So we’ll see what happens.

UPDATE: We found out they'll turn our water off again tonight at 11pm, and turn it on again at 5am. Still more to do, but we're almost in the clear! Woohoo!