A good rehearsal
Seldom do citizens get a chance to
rehearse serious things like a water
outage. Now 150,000 urban type 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 buildings also depend on
water for cooling, too. I've also lived there, though not for a while now.
Heck, I even grew up there.
Even as far back in the 1930's, many
USA 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. Even in
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the local hotels would say don't drink the tap water, just wash
and flush with it.
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. Now some toilet turds are pretty big! At least someone could eat well
enough.
Many already live way this routinely
around the world and even in the USA, like thinking ahead about their water use
schedule. Now some Americans get to
rehearse it.
No comments:
Post a Comment