Dumbasses

So, I live in a small Red town, Reddest in my state by a wide margin, where the water has been mostly well and septic forever. A few years ago, since these houses are on a plot which nearly abuts a bit larger Red town, which larger town has a municipal water system (largely on the basis of water rights in the small Red town in which I live, of course), our often dry well was replaced by piped water from said larger town. Said larger town goes back, in terms of incorporation to 1853, and much if not most, of the water pipes do to. And, said larger town has had, by my count, a half dozen water main breaks in the the last few years. And, until now, fixing said breaks leaves us without water for a couple of days. Until now.

What happened was that there was a break on a street which is about the lowest in the town, running next to the main river in the area, which is your typical hillside New England town. There was a break on this street some years ago, and we were out of water for a couple of days. Irritating, but not critical.

So, while watching my local Lamestream teeVee news last night, I find that this break had happened and that all was under control and no one in the towns had, or would, lose water. Ok.

Got up this morning, and no H₂O. Off I went to the local grocery and grabbed some bottled water. We still had some bottles left over from the previous fiasco. I should have gone to the innterTubes first. Turns out that while fixing the 'minor' break first reported, the main-main water pipe, a 36 inch monster, which drives the distribution to said larger town and parts of some of the abutting towns blew out. Which includes our plantation.

Turns out that the 36 incher is close by, but upstream of, the original failure.

Now, explain to me, Mr. Natural, how fixing the smaller main (12 inch from the reports), could cause the failure of the 36 incher? My guess: come chucklehead civil servant water department drone slammed shut the outlet value on the 36 incher so the 12 incher could be worked on. According to His Honoer the Mayor, those pipes are all 100⁺ years old. So, of course, the resulting pressure spike on the 100⁺ year old 36 incher gave up the ghost. We're likely to be without water for a week.

Brazil is famous for its slash and burn form of agriculture. Some, especially among the Lunatic Left, blame some of climate change on such conduct. Turns out, the USofA does similarly. The New Territories, mostly Red States, have somewhat younger infrastructure than the Olde Towns, and want the Olde Towns to be shutdown. Come live in the Sunshine States. What? You say the Colorado is drying up? We'll just get water from the Great Lakes. All those Olde Towns don't need it.