Tuesday, July 29, 2025

The Trials of Modern Living

 

We started the month of July with an electrical outage and we are ending the month with a water line break.  I was leaving the house around 4:00 in the afternoon on Saturday to meet some friends for drinks and dinner.  I saw this river of water gushing up from the ground and flowing down the street outside the gate.  In fact, those two cars you see were driving very slowly so as not to splash the water.  


When I came home around 10:30, this was the scene.  A City of Phoenix construction crew was hard at work digging a hole to get to the water pipes.  By that time, the water had been shut off.  That was something I quickly discovered when I turned on a faucet.  Luckily I had a full water bottle to get me through.  Sometime around 3:00 AM, the water was back on and the construction team was filling in the hole.  

Water and electricity....we take these things for granted until they fail us.  In spite of these two recent inconveniences, I consider myself very fortunate to live where I do.  There are far too many people around the world who have neither of these or other basic benefits.  


6 comments:

roentare said...

I hope the water line break got sorted quickly and didn’t cause too much damage.

Travel said...

One advantage of condo living,with 1,000 homes in one place, we are a priority for getting service restored when things go wrong. And yes, there are millions of people who lack access to what we take for granted.

contempladoraocidental.blogspot.com said...

That is so true. We do take many things for granted.

RedPat said...

Hopefully there is nothing left to go wrong, Sharon. We are lucky to live where we do.

Diaday said...

We are blessed with so many modern conveniences.

Steve Reed said...

That's a very good point. We get impatient without our conveniences but many people never have water or power.