Village Flirting With Disaster

Yesterday the water in the house gradually lost pressure and by the time Nancy came home it was gone completely, not a drop. She went into panic mode about the commode. I told her I had "his and her's" 5 gallon buckets just for this type of calamity. At 7:00pm she decided to go to Kroger to buy up as much water as possible. She refused to embrace the notion of evacuating in a bucket and planned to use Dasani to flush the terlet. On the way to Kroger we swung by the village water tower complex which was a whirlwind of activity, lots of trucks and a huge boom type contraption. I met with Village President Pete Christiansen to get the skinny on the H2O issue. It was comforting to see Pete there with his boots on the ground taking control of the disaster plan, he didn't just fly over like Dubbya did with Katrina. I told Pete as Block Captain I was prepared to implement our evacuation plan which included housing at the Rocket Motel. Pete replied, "We ain't stuck on stupid". He assured me the water will be back on in a few minutes and evacuating(odd choice of word don't you think) would be premature. I was told they had to replace the big pump which is 35 years old with a "loaner" until ours can be repaired. A "loaner", WTF?
By the time we returned from Kroger with 30 gallons of Dasani the water was working and the toilets were back online. Water seems to be the glue that holds civilizations together.