Prague Journal

Sunday, January 23, 2005

We woke up to a lovely blanket of white snow. Since it’s Sunday, it’s very quiet and serene –like a picture postcard. It snowed throughout the morning; by noon there was about 3” of show on the railing of our balcony. When the snow stopped, the sun came out and it stayed sunny throughout the afternoon. Staying at home, looking out at the lovely view from my computer desk, was very pleasant. Unfortunately, we were without water from about 10:00a.m. We had made tea earlier in the morning, but had no other source of water – except for the snow on the balcony which I saved to make soup for dinner! Fortunately, we have heat (gas) and electricity, so things are not so bad.
Late in the afternoon there was a big white tanker truck labeled “drinking water” cruising down our street, dispensing water for anyone who approached with containers. Rick got a bucket of water – mostly for washing and flushing since we had enough good water for dinner and tomorrow morning’s tea. He was told that there had been an accident and that we should have water restored either late tonight or early tomorrow morning. We were prepared for the worst, since we’d heard about areas in town that were without water for three days. Fortunately, our water was restored shortly before midnight, so right now we’re assuming that things are fixed and that we’ll still have water in the morning.

posted by JWinn @ 11:46 PM