Posted on 11/27/2022 9:53:00 PM PST by blueplum
HOUSTON — The country’s fourth-largest city on Sunday night ordered millions of residents to boil their tap water, citing a morning power outage at a city water purification plant.
The city’s school system also announced late Sunday that it would be closed on Monday, at minimum,...
...It wasn’t clear what caused the water plant’s power outage, why it took the city 10 hours to issue a boil water order or how soon the order could be lifted...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Have you told the ones that can fix it; did you thank the ones that did the work.
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That’s a nice tip for instilling a little appreciation where it’s do. And you’re absolutely right. We fail to say “thank you” enough to competent workers and managers.
Well done, my FRiend.
All that boiled water can only mean one thing.
They’re all pregnant.
;-)
Gee, public corruption.
Sounds like a job for the FBI, doesn’t it.
So where are the Feebs...?
Classic government: “We think your water is perfectly safe, but we’re required to tell you to boil it first.”
My SIL is a plant operator. Staffing is very tight so whenever a problem occurs after hours he has to go in. One would think the system was under funded but that would be incorrect. Seems the City sees it as a way around increasing taxes. It used to be privately owned but the company offered it for sale at an outrageous price to the City some years ago. The dopes bought it, immediately increased prices. Mind you, when it was privately owned, they paid taxes on their income and dividends to the stockholders while operating under the PUC. Once city owned, no PUC.
“Someone has to know when and what repairs are needed and have the ability to do the regular maintenance on these systems.”
there’s also a SIGNIFICANT amount of chemistry involved with the operation of municipal potable water systems and chemistry is HARD ...
ALL systems service folks are in that same boat, ranging from IT to trash pickup, with everything in between, including electricity, telephone, internet, and wastewater ...
those of us who build and maintain those systems so critical to the convenience and ease of modern life are the true unsung heroes of our country ...
i’m retired now, so no longer a hero, but i’m grateful every day for those who still get up in the middle of the night in raging blizzards and repair these systems that keep the rest of us from huddling in cold and dark homes waiting for our services to be restored ...
The fruits of Democrats.
Berkley on the Colorado.
It takes time for the Houston kakistocracy to CYA their malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance. .
Houston is loaded with New Orleans Refugees flushed out by Katrina.
The next day I brought each of them gift cards - of course.
They acted as if no one had ever done anything like that before, which may have been the case.
Always treat those supporting your efforts well and as equals.
”Smoking hole in the ground” is the best way to describe Austin.
Won’t boiling all that water contribute significantly to global warming / climate change?
What to do?
What to do?
What to do!
/sarc
The state (TCEQ) apparently oversees the city and mandates a boil water order. They also apparently then approve plans for testing and for certifying that conditions are correct for removing an order once one has been issued.
The event took place at 10:30 AM, and they don’t issue the notice until almost 7:00 PM, 8-1/2 hours later?
We didn’t get an email notice of the problem from the city until 10:31 PM.
When you watch this interview with the city’s water director, it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8__OpxIJsA
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