[Neighbors] Water outage?

[dave mccoy]

https://www.radfreenm.org/index.php/kirkland-afb-jet-fuel-spill/53-albuquerque-where-dreams-die-thirsty-in-the-desert

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 5:20 PM Michael Mcdonald via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <
neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> I imagine that gas and electricity companies put priority on creating
> notification systems due to their inherent dangers. The water company, not
> having such dangers, probably didn’t see the value in that sort of
> investment.
>
> Gas, electric and water companies deal with different inherent dangers.
> Gas leaks, as we saw, can blow up buildings. Additionally, many of our gas
> appliances use pilots lights that need to be re-lit after the gas has been
> turned off. Turning the gas back on can also expose customers to some
> dangers. Old houses may have or had worse issues. I had an old floor heater
> in my house that didn’t have any safety control valves. If the gas went out
> I had to turn it off manually. Otherwise the heater would start dumping raw
> gas as soon as the gas was returned. (Hopefully it would go out the flu.) I
> replaced it with something safer a few years ago. (Hurray for the Historic
> Preservation Tax Credit Program.)
>
> Electric lines have similar but different safety concerns. People might
> expose circuits when the electricity goes out and and the exposed circuits
> would be dangerous when re-energized. Additionally, equipment like swamp
> cooler motors will suddenly re-start when the energy comes back and that
> can be a hazard for people who might be investigating why they stopped. Of
> course, there’s all the clocks and such that need to be re-adjusted when
> the power comes back.
>
> When the water goes out and you’re not using it, the effect is more silent
> than the proverbial tree that falls in the forest where there’s nobody to
> hear. There’s no effect. Moreover, there’s no after effect if nobody tries
> to use the water while it’s out. Nothing moved so nothing changed. The only
> effect is that there’s no water while it’s out. Suddenly stopped showers
> aside, water outages are more an inconvenience to some than anything else.
>
> I imagine the different notification policies is a sort of sign that the
> three companies operate as frugally as is safe. To me, that’s a good thing.
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