To be honest, I ignored that message because I'd got up, had a shower, had breakfast, done a bit of cleaning and everything had been normal.
.......................Then I went to work, about half a mile up the road.
While at work, I received information (via the grapevine) about a burst water main about a mile down the road in the opposite direction. Zillions of SWW vans/workers had been spotted digging up a road. Again I ignored this because we had water at work.
At 12.57am I received another text message from SWW which said there had been a large burst water main about 6 miles away and they were re-routing water supplies to the affected areas. At this point I was still at work and we still had water so I didn't care??!!
Came home just after 2pm and there was no water in my house.
Not too worried. These things happen.
15.27 - Another message from SWW - 'We are undertaking the repair as quickly as we can to restore supplies to normal standards. We will send out a further update on progress by 17.30.'
Went out. Came home about 5pm-ish. Still no water.
17.33 - Another message from SWW - 'We have been working as fast as we can to re-route supplies. We expect it will take some hours for supplies throughout the system to recover fully. We will issue further information throughout the evening.'
Now I'm getting a bit fed up. Haven't flushed the toilet all day. Just about to start cooking tea. Haven't washed my hands?!
Actually........................ to be honest........................... I'm not too much of a 'ranting middle aged spinster' today.............................
I live by myself, it doesn't actually matter that the toilet hasn't been flushed - I've just put the lid down. I don't need to drink gallons of coffee - wine will suffice. Who cares about the washing up - it can be done later. I had a shower this morning - I'm sure the water will be back on by tomorrow morning. I have one small bottle of bottled water for cleaning my teeth.
I remember growing up in the 1960's and the water/electricity went off on a regular basis. At the time we lived in a culd-a-sac and I remember my mother regularly having to walk to the end of it, with a bucket, to get some water because we had no water.
There were no mobile phones in those days to keep everyone up to date with a text message, no internet, no tweets. The water just stopped coming out of the taps and we dealt with it!!!
.................And I'm pretty sure no-one demanded compensation or a refund on their water bill because they hadn't had any water for a few hours.
Those were the days!!!!!
Having said that - It's almost 7.30pm - hope the water comes back on soon.