My husband told me to keep water in the storage in containers such as bucket, tub, pots and pitchers. I wonder why. Yeah, noticed that the water pressure has changed from the water tap. There was less pressure last Saturday afternoon. What's going on? When I got out from the front door, my husband was busy talking over the phone with a city worker. I was surprised when I gazed my eyes on the stump on the front yard, on the lawn. There was a big lump of some kind on the surface of the lawn and when my husband stepped on top of the lump it looked like a blob. The blob-like or lump moved like a jello. What the hell is that? Then water was running through that surface down the road. A stream like water running through the road to the neighbor's front sidewalk, then a middle aged woman wearing lime green shirt came rushing to us. She went directly to me and told me that, "did you know that it's never been greener in this area since they were here." That the yard is never well taken care of since they live here in this part of the city. I know, the brother (of the owner of the house we are currently living with my family) informed us that the yard was never been taken care of and the former tenants do not water the berries. The lawns were never been look after. The woman asked me if I need some containers to keep water because it will take that long to fix such mess on the yard. Wow! How long would that be?
It was Saturday that blob-like appeared on the front yard. Saturday and Sunday, city workers and plumbers and other workers do not really work on those days. Anyway, for whatever reason after about 15 minutes the city worker arrived with his tools. He checked on what could be the problem and shutdown the water pipeline so, automatically we don't have water running on our faucet and shower, nothing. He uncovered the drainage and water still running fast down the road. He wont dig the yard to get rid of the blob. I think there is so much water on the front yard. That could be it. That's why the former tenants who lived here before never water the berries and they never look after the lawn just let the bermuda grass dry and have a deserted look out there. Well, I hope that's water from the sewer pipeline not water from the ocean. If you know what I mean.
I went inside the house and looked at our TV. A flash message on the screen: Quakes on northern part of Philippines, 66 injured. What?! What's the connection ?
Because we don't have water running on our water tap, we wont be able to take a shower or do the laundry until the mess is fixed. We have water stored for brewing coffee, water on our two big pots, water on Brita pitcher, water on coffee maker and water in a big plastic tub outside the yard. We have a case of watered bottle. Thank God I already had a bath and I'm done with my laundry.
Then I overheard the city worker, "I'm sorry Lorne! $35, if you want water."
WTH!!!! We pay our Hydro religiously. We're paid all the time.
I told him that the lump outside the yard was a BLOB. It's an alien!
To dig the yard will take longer period of time. Why? You can't just dig because we don't know what's underneath down there and where the gas pipeline. We don't like hitting the gas line. It's okay if hitting a gas will make us rich like what happened in Texas when Texans dug something down there on the ground and voila they turned into oil tycoons.
