The next decade....what's in store?

See, we women are just great

Emily came and left us with just a bit of rain. No fanfare, no devastation. Just a friendly visit.

No power cuts (well not permanent ones). No tree fall down. No having to put shutters up or tarpaulin in the dogs. Just a normal wet weather day.

Now you'd think that with all this rain we wouldn't have water lock off, but this 'turbidity' thing that NWC uses to explain away no water is now lame.

I call the Emergency Control Room this morning. Spoke with a nice sounding fella, who said he didn't have a report that anything was out of the ordinary in our area. I told him all week we had had precious little water, and God bless the tank. He said "well we wouldn't be able to pump any water to that area today you know". But, but, but...

He explained that when the river is in spate, it is very hard to treat. Yeah, so what? How many years oonu been having this problem? "I'm not an engineer so I can't speak on that". He said we would have to be serviced from the 'intake' and that is very low.

I told him that this situation just mek us know seh we eena one turd wurld country!

Then came the typical man line....

"If anything changes, I'll call you. What's your number?"

I gave him. He hasn't called. The one time I would welcome a phone call from a strange man and he ent call. The men are disappointing yet again.

Posted by yamfoot at July 16, 2005 04:46 PM