Austin Water Issues Boil Water Notice

[Brisketexan 105041]

Sounds like the same shit every woman over 45 at my office is going on about. 

I thought there were rules around here?

[MissingInAction 25002]

They are all so big they require a car wash to bathe, so I can somewhat understand their concern.

[Brisketexan 105041]

They are all so big they require a car wash to bathe, so I can somewhat understand their concern.

So...Vic has rules around here.

[Digdogger 1344]

6 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

They are all so big they require a car wash to bathe, so I can somewhat understand their concern.

I thought I saw you at the DMV.  I thought there must just be 2 husky, ginger bears in Austin

[Biff Tannen 45661]

So Sunday for this bullshit to finally be over?

[South Austin 52431]

Frankly, I've gotten so used to the taste of boiled water I may not switch back.

[Updawg 2266]

Frankly, I've gotten so used to the taste of boiled water I may not switch back.

Care to share your recipe?

[Biff Tannen 45661]

Water main break in Hyde Park. Lovely.

[South Austin 52431]

Just now, Updawg said:

4 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Frankly, I've gotten so used to the taste of boiled water I may not switch back.

Care to share your recipe?

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, the key is low and slow, and frequent stirring.

[Brisketexan 105041]

We keep a pot on the stove, and serve ourselves drinking water with a ladle.  It's very trail-ride chuckwagon-ish.  It will soon be all the rage among hipsters everywhere: "EVERYONE in AUSTIN is drinking water this way now...you need to get with the times!"

[Orange&White 5521]

3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

We keep a pot on the stove, and serve ourselves drinking water with a ladle.  It's very trail-ride chuckwagon-ish.  It will soon be all the rage among hipsters everywhere: "EVERYONE in AUSTIN is drinking water this way now...you need to get with the times!"

For authenticity sake, set up some velvet ropes and make your family wait in a line before getting their ladle full. And then charge them $7.50 per cup.

[Patrick Bateman 3910]

If this chart is to be believed, we should be off this conservation bullshit in a couple of days..... This is absurd.

 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

We keep a pot on the stove, and serve ourselves drinking water with a ladle.  It's very trail-ride chuckwagon-ish.  It will soon be all the rage among hipsters everywhere: "EVERYONE in AUSTIN is drinking water this way now...you need to get with the times!"

Dude, we are boiling ours by dropping hot rocks from the fire into a suspended pig bladder.   So native. And

you drink from the peehole!

Edited October 26, 2018 by Judge Roybeanbag

[UTexasFight 9427]

If this chart is to be believed, we should be off this conservation bullshit in a couple of days..... This is absurd.
 

Thank god.
My vehicle hasn’t been washed since beginning of September and we have finally have a stretch that’s longer than 3 days of no rain.
Won’t someone think of my truck!

[bschoolprof 6251]

Speaking of cars do I need to boil the water before refilling the radiator and washer fluid?

Just piss in it like everyone else.

[Deej 76750]

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

We keep a pot on the stove, and serve ourselves drinking water with a ladle.  It's very trail-ride chuckwagon-ish.  It will soon be all the rage among hipsters everywhere: "EVERYONE in AUSTIN is drinking water this way now...you need to get with the times!"

The dream of the 1890's is alive in Austin.

[InkaUtexas 25853]

12 minutes ago, tjhooker said:

Thanks.  Just thought that worked in Red Dawn.  Morning pee or regular pee?

late night Posse East pee. Its fortified. 

[APMP 688]

We keep a pot on the stove, and serve ourselves drinking water with a ladle.  It's very trail-ride chuckwagon-ish.  It will soon be all the rage among hipsters everywhere: "EVERYONE in AUSTIN is drinking water this way now...you need to get with the times!"

I got a big filtering dispenser for the fridge that I put boiled water in once the water cooled. Thought process was that boiling won't remove silt particles that made it through. But if water turbidity is only going to improve from here on out I probably wasted $25.

[bschoolprof 6251]

57 minutes ago, tjhooker said:

Thanks.  Just thought that worked in Red Dawn.  Morning pee or regular pee?

Stop asking questions Danny and just get up there and piss in the radiator.  

[TexArcher 37761]

2 hours ago, tjhooker said:

Thanks.  Just thought that worked in Red Dawn.  Morning pee or regular pee?

Has to be female orgasm pee.

[KaiserSoze 998]

Some dumbass on my Nextdoor feed was talking about all the trouble she went through to boil multiple pots of water just to rinse her dishes after washing them in her dishwasher... when all you need is to use the dishwasher heat cycle.

 

 

[UTexasFight 9427]

Some dumbass on my Nextdoor feed was talking about all the trouble she went through to boil multiple pots of water just to rinse her dishes after washing them in her dishwasher... when all you need is to use the dishwasher heat cycle. 

 

 

 

You call someone a dumbass... yet you too are on next door

(Boiling) pot calling kettle black?

 

[Anastasis 23454]

Is the water still piss?

[happyfunball 481]

Fuck your water conservatism

[MissingInAction 25002]

Is that a tsunamis?

[Red Five 40822]

So my water bill for the last month went up 100%. Cool. 

[phdhorn 6224]

55 minutes ago, Red Five said:

So my water bill for the last month went up 100%. Cool. 

Just send them $25 and tell them you filtered all the shit out of it.

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

When this gets lifted I wonder how many gallons of water are going to be wasted when people turn on every faucet in their house to clean out the dirty water?

[Neonmoon 38129]

Is there any update for our shitty city? Any kind of timetable? 

[Biff Tannen 45661]

10 hours ago, happyfunball said:

Fuck your water conservatism

I am two houses away from that.  They worked all night and fixed it.  Didn't affect my water it seems, so I've got that going for me, which is nice.

[atomheartbevo 89618]

Shttps://www.statesman.com/news/20181026/city-councils-troxclair-begins-push-for-reasons-behind-water-crisis

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As Austin residents wait for water from their taps to become drinkable, three City Council members tried and failed Friday to begin a push for information about what exactly happened to lead to a mandatory boil water notice and how a repeat can be avoided in the future.

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Council Member Ellen Troxclair posted a draft resolution on the council’s message board Thursday afternoon that asked city staffers to provide a briefing about the crisis to elected officials and the public within a month of whenever the boil order is lifted. Council Members Alison Alter and Leslie Pool quickly said they would co-sponsor the resolution.

However, the resolution failed to gain the fourth co-sponsor needed to add it to the agenda for next week’s council meeting.

Troxclair said she had questions about whether the problem could have been foreseen or if communications about it could have been better. She noted that city officials opted not to use a reverse-911 system to alert residents and pointed out that some restaurants reported being unaware the boil water order was in place until after they already had served water to customers.

“I’m sure there were reasons for those decisions, and hindsight is 20/20, but unless we take a minute and think about how we can improve, then we won’t be able to learn things,” Troxclair said. “It is completely appropriate for the City Council to be asking for that transparency and accountability.”

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Council Members Ann Kitchen and Sabino “Pio” Renteria said in message board posts that they would prefer to wait a few weeks to ask city staffers to begin the process of looking back, noting that they may still be working on fallout from the crisis itself. The responses disappointed Troxclair, who said she thought a month was ample time to compile a briefing.

 

[atomheartbevo 89618]

The only data they’ve released. This shows midnight at Saturday before they put out the notices Monday morning.  

They were clearly having big problems, and Troxlciar said they knew there were issues 4-5 days before the notice.  Would love to see what she saw those 4-5 days before   

Gray = historical

red = what we were using

blue = what they were producing 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

That tells me that historically most people only bathe on Sunday and Wednesday evenings. 

[HornsOverIthaca 2333]

12 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

That tells me that historically most people only bathe on Sunday and Wednesday evenings. 

Old hippies,

[Biff Tannen 45661]

So can we stop boiling?  Cause I was drunk and brushed my teeth last night with tap water cause fuck it, we lost to OSU.

[South Austin 52431]

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

So can we stop boiling?  Cause I was drunk and brushed my teeth last night with tap water cause fuck it, we lost to OSU.

I think we're good. I accidentally drank a glass of unboiled tap water this morning and haven't shit my pants yet.

[Red Five 40822]

Wait, was I not supposed to be brushing my teeth with tap water this whole time?

[Trey3216 15343]

54 minutes ago, HornsOverIthaca said:

Old hippies,

And they don’t know what to do 

[Washpark 176]

19 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I think we're good. I accidentally drank a glass of unboiled tap water this morning and haven't shit my pants yet.

I drank too much beer and no tap water but shit my pants

[Deej 76750]

Drink up. Worse comes to worst, the shart thread adds 5 pages.

[Neonmoon 38129]

Maybe later today?

[atomheartbevo 89618]

24 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Maybe later today?

Tuesday

[KaiserSoze 998]

...just in time to eat the birds.

Edited October 28, 2018 by KaiserSoze

[bolverk 29644]

Too bad we have no snow for our coffee.

[Anastasis 23454]

So are you suppose to flush the lines of all the shit water after we stop being a third world country?

[Celery Man 20929]

i've been flushing my shit water for years

[Biff Tannen 45661]

2 hours ago, KaiserSoze said:

...just in time to eat the birds.

Man I love bird eating day.  Thanks for the reminder.

[Chet Steadman 940]

Chiming in to say I’ve been drinking CoA tap water exclusively since the boil water requirements began.  I refuse to give in the the hysterics.     

Still don’t have the deads...yet

[Radical Larry 28539]

[KaiserSoze 998]

Since a couple of people have asked about this...

 

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Do I need to flush the pipes in my home?

No, it is not necessary or required to flush the pipes in your home. Water has continued to circulate in the distribution system during the Boil Water Notice. Water used for laundry, showering, or boiling for consumption has created enough flushing effect for most homes. There should be no need to flush water from hot water heaters, irrigation systems, showers, clothes washing machines or outdoor faucets.

If you choose to flush water from your pipes, please limit the amount of water you use. We recommend following Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines that suggest flushing for two minutes.