City Utilities at its finest

So Laura and I woke up at 3am to somebody pounding on our door. I grudgingly got out of bed, looked to see who it was, disarmed the alarm and open the door a crack. It was some random guy who was taking a walk (at 3am) letting me know that a water main burst outside our house. I stepped out on the front porch and saw it; sure enough, it was flowing water out of it, and you could hear it, too.

Great.

So I called City Utilities, got ahold of the water staff, and told them about it. They dispatched somebody an hour later. Which was finally when I was able to get back to sleep (because some random stranger pounding on our door in the middle of the night kinda scares the shit outta me. I was able to fall asleep again amidst the pounding, but it was the drilling this morning that woke me up.

And we’re without water this morning, which sucks really bad because we can’t brush our teeth, wash our faces, use the toilet, etc. We had to empty water bottles laying around the house into the coffee pot so we could have enough coffee.

This is the third time this has happened in a year. I’m not a big fan of living on my street.