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LIVE: No water for many in Austin with few answers so far ahead of 2 p.m. news conference
Austin News ^ | 2/18/2021 | Wes Wilson

Posted on 02/18/2021 12:30:32 PM PST by Shadylake

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Thousands of people who live in Austin are without water Thursday, and there has been no word from the City of Austin when the water might return.

KXAN reached out to Austin Water multiple times ahead of the city’s planned 2 p.m. news conference looking for answers but still has not heard back.

Austin Water tweeted about the issue around 9:30 a.m. but still has not said when it might be able to resume water service to those areas affected.

(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: austin; disaster; texas
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To: Shadylake

Boil your water people! Oh, wait. How can you do that without power?


41 posted on 02/18/2021 1:19:15 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: blueunicorn6

It’s not the mains so much as the 18 inch deep, 1 inch pipes that feed the manifolds to homes and commercial properties


42 posted on 02/18/2021 1:19:47 PM PST by atc23
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To: buffyt

And Free Republic is based in California. Your point?


43 posted on 02/18/2021 1:20:39 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Shadylake
LOL. Yeah, sure.

Is that you, Irish Bob O'Rourke?

44 posted on 02/18/2021 1:20:53 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

>>Austin went woke and their pipes broke.<<

Hey..not bad. Simple, yet poignant! lol


45 posted on 02/18/2021 1:21:05 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: Alberta's Child

There’s probably internet feeds of the police/fire scanners you can check. If you’re not in this, might not be a good idea to belittle it.


46 posted on 02/18/2021 1:22:21 PM PST by Shadylake
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To: Shadylake

with the population that has moved into Austin the last few years, not sure they will even notice if they can’t take showers.


47 posted on 02/18/2021 1:24:00 PM PST by qwerty1234
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To: BerryDingle

We had a large wood stove with a flue that came out of the back so the top was flat. If we lost power we would not only have heat we would be able to cook. But we didn’t live in Austin.


48 posted on 02/18/2021 1:29:45 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Yeah. I wasn’t meaning to be flip about it. I know the original poster was really concerned. Those of us in America’s Icebox are pretty much used to it.


49 posted on 02/18/2021 1:31:40 PM PST by JennysCool (2020: Aging “world socialists” promoting their ideology by scaring the crap out of gullible people.)
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To: JennysCool

“Many of us live in places where this is a pretty common event. You’ll be all right. Don’t let the media scare you. As always, they know fear gets ratings and sells papers.”

True, don’t let the MEDIA scare you, but we better darn well be scared of the leftist monsters who orchestrate all this chaos as a lead up to their characteristic murder of tens of millions, which is most certainly coming here.


50 posted on 02/18/2021 1:31:46 PM PST by NYAmerican
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To: RC one

I bet transplants from CA don’t know what a main shut off is.


51 posted on 02/18/2021 1:36:29 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: JennysCool

“Honestly, you’ll be okay.”

You are truly peddling a message of comfort to everyone. I suppose you have been “through it all”, and will bless us with your hard earned wisdom. Have you ever been through a Communist rampage where tens of millions are murdered? It’s lovely that you know how survive a loss of power and water, we are all seriously impressed, but that is NOT what this all about! Don’t you get it? These crises are being Engineered and planned by our criminal leftist masters. So much more is coming. Don’t you get it? Stop trying to tell everyone to just calm down. This is the time to get riled up.


52 posted on 02/18/2021 1:37:31 PM PST by NYAmerican
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To: NYAmerican

Thank you for your input.


53 posted on 02/18/2021 1:42:36 PM PST by JennysCool (2020: Aging “world socialists” promoting their ideology by scaring the crap out of gullible people.)
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To: cnsmom

Or where it is at least.


54 posted on 02/18/2021 1:45:27 PM PST by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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To: Shadylake

I vaguely remember that a 24 inch main broke someplace in texas a while back.


55 posted on 02/18/2021 1:47:32 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: blueunicorn6

The farther outside of Austin, people have private water wells and don’t bury the pipes very deep.

We have a garage sink. It is covered with blankets and a heat lamp. It still froze. Waiting for the big thaw to see what’s what.


56 posted on 02/18/2021 1:49:58 PM PST by bgill (Which came first Gates and Fauci's vax or covid?)
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To: Shadylake

Are you in Texas right now, or not? Your posts on this thread seem a bit confusing on that point.


57 posted on 02/18/2021 1:57:25 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Alberta's Child

DFW area.


58 posted on 02/18/2021 1:57:42 PM PST by Shadylake
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To: Shadylake

Two days without water and people start to die... Kids thirsty? Open a can of vegetables and drain the water off for them to drink.


59 posted on 02/18/2021 2:02:31 PM PST by GOPJ (Biden voters: billionaires and idiots. Check your bank account to see which one you are.PookieToons)
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To: GOPJ

Anyone living in areas that got under around 12 degrees should probably be filling their bathtubs now just in case. Especially if heat/power went off for awhile. That’s millions of people.


60 posted on 02/18/2021 2:06:00 PM PST by Shadylake
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