Disaster

Tricia and her daughters, Ashley and Faith, came over for a visit yesterday. We talked, played Apples to Apples and then cooked supper, lasagna. Unfortunately, there must have been something wrong with the ingredients because those of us who ate it, have been sick.

I barely made it to Hugo's last night to get groceries before my stomach seized up. When I made it home, I saw that Kristie wasn't doing much better.

When Kristie talked to Tricia, she said that they too were all sick.

While my spell just lasted a few minutes, Kristie suffered with it all night.

At about six a.m. she said that the toilet was not filling back up. Since our house is over 100 years old, problems like these tend to crop up all the time. Not having the foggiest notion of what to do, I googled it.

One suggestion was that if a commode is clogged, it could prevent the tank from refilling. However, Kristie also discovered that the water pressure was nonexistent.

I rushed to the basement to see if any pipes had broken. Fortunately, they had not.

There was modicum of water pressure in the basement, so I was able to fill up some containers and lug the water upstairs to try and fill the tank and unclog the toilet.

Finally, we were able to get it to flush, but the tank never refilled. In fact, the water pressure quickly disappeared throughout the entire house.

Fearing having to pay a plumber on a Sunday, I hit google again. But all the searches talked about such things as stoppers in toilets and so on. It was all Greek to me. Remember what I lamented some time ago about there never being an English teacher emergency?

I left messages with the plumbers and envisioned us having to melt snow to flush toilets and boil water for baths. Just like my grandparents likely had to do (well, they carried water in from a well).

Later our babysitter called. She informed us that they had no water pressure either. Apparently, a pipe had burst and the city was trying to get it all fixed.

What a relief.

Before we actually had to boil any water, the pressure returned. The pipe must have been found and fixed.

Two weeks ago our igniter in our furnace went out. This week no water. What will next week bring?