The morning news here in Dallas ran a story on several communities south of Houston that were on severe water restrictions. The communities were Clear Lake, Galveston, and 2 others. It was reported that the electrical transformers for each plant all burned up simultaneously. The communities are buying limited amounts of water from a south Houston plant. It'll reportedly take about 10 days to get the plants operational again. The report didn't mention a cause for the transformer failure nor was Y2K mentioned.

Does anyone have further information or any thoughts about this? I find it strange that 3 plants would fail at the same time of the same thing.

Thanks,

M/C

-- M/C (mcallis@waymark.net), September 11, 1999

Answers

Hello M/C! We were talking about it last night on this thread:

Link

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), September 11, 1999.

Same thing happened here in Ormond Beach Florida two weeks ago - transformers in the water treatment plant fried to the extent that even the back-up generators could not get the juice to where it needed to go - Result - a boil water order for a city of 37,000 for three days - Got Immodium AD?

-- Gone to the Well (butthewell@was.dry), September 11, 1999.

Gonetothewell. i'm 3 blocks away from you. didn't think anyone gave a sh*t it this town.

-- Susan (number9@mindspring.com), September 11, 1999.

Gayla,

Maybe M/C did see the posts last night. Who the hell are you, you bitch????? The police? Go drink some of that poluted water in Florida.

-- (sickOFGayla@puke.com), September 11, 1999.

Hey...Fullof" all she was doing was pointing out that there was another discussion, calm down.

MC..thanks for starting this post.

Gayla..thanks for the link to the other discussion. I missed it yesterday. Didn't watch the news last night so I heard about it this morning in the Chronicle...I better fill our barrels NOW. (hope the water pumps in our area of Houston don't "break down.

quietly being vocal

-- quietly (quietly@preparing.com), September 11, 1999.

SickOF. How can you tell from Gaylas post that she was bustin' on M/C? Maybe she knows her and was just saying hello. Take a deep breath and relax. There is plenty of shit to get cranked up about. This shouldn't be one of them. IMHO

-- (rcarver@inacom.com), September 11, 1999.

"Start every day with a smile and get it overwith." W.C. Fields

-- W.C. Fields (WCFIELDS@WCFIELDSS.com), September 11, 1999.

boy, it,s a blessing=being saved by grace.

-- lookin-up. (dogs@zianet.com), September 11, 1999.

"SickOF. How can you tell from Gaylas post that she was bustin' on M/C? Maybe she knows her and was just saying hello."

Those of us who know Gayla know she was just saying hello to MC. "SickOf" has a problem obviously.

SickOF, HELLOOOOO???? duh!

-- Wanna Pickon Mee (???@???.???), September 12, 1999.

"Sick of" I wanted M/C to have the opportunity to read the Houston Chronicle article that was so graciously provided by Deborah.

I see you were also (sickOFthis@crap.com) on "WHAT IS YOUR WORST Y2K FEAR?" and (gomper@tinko.com) on "Government Monitoring of the Boards."

PS- I won't go to Florida for their water, I'll just come up to Fairfax, Virginia for some of yours!

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), September 12, 1999.

Ah yas, Gayla ma dear. Should you become in need of refreshment, why you just sashay over here. I shall be most pleased to assist such a fair damsel in distress. But please, no water; I never touch the stuff (fish f**k in it, ya know)

Yas, it puts me to mind of that time in darkest Africa. Some scoundrell stold all our fine whiskey. Yas, we were forced to live off of food and water for weeks. It was horrible.

W.C.

-- W.C. (fields@long.gone), September 12, 1999.

GALVESTON, Texas officials have declared an emergency/crisis exists...

No water is currently being pumped to Galveston from Houston system.

Galveston only has a three day reserve of water.

Repairs at Houston's southeast water facility may take seven days.

Galveston police are enforcing strict water controls.

Galveston officials are recommending that citizens should skip bathing and other non-essential uses of water.

Houston officials are hopeful that one third of capacity may be restored within a few days.

-- no talking please (breadlines@soupkitchen.gov), September 12, 1999.