A good rehearsal

A good rehearsal

       Seldom do citizens get a chance to rehearse  serious things like a water outage. Now 150,000+ people in the D.C. metro area get such a chance.

            I doubt many would volunteer for such a rehearsal. Generally it is also hot and humid there this time of the year. And many building depend on water for cooling, too. I've lived there, too.

            Even as far back in the 1930's, many people would say their water came out of the tap, vice something else like some drainage area. Even as recently as the 1970's in Okinawa, Japan, we had day on, day off, water during the warm season. And we accommodated, too.

            So as painful as it might be for so many citizens, they are getting a freebie, if one has that kind of attitude. Consider things like boiling water for drinking and cooking, scatological jokes over the toilet deposits, and being hot; and planning around all these kinds of factors.

            Many already do this routinely around the world, like think ahead about their water use schedule.  Now some Americans get to rehearse it.