No Water
Turned on the tops 1/2 hour ago to no water- none in shower, none in any tap. Neighbors didn’t have any, maintenance guy was left mid-cleaning of some tile. Woman walking up from Fisherman’s Wharf said they didn’t have any water either.
Update: 1:30PM It’s back on, whew. That was scary. No news on why or how. Effected areas: up and down Columbus Ave from Francisco to Beach.
Ah, SF Gate (thanks Tinman) says it was all over the city:
” Civic Center, North Beach, South of Market, the Mission, Potrero Hill downtown, Fisherman’s Wharf, Chinatown and the Marina — even the PUC office itself on Market Street.”
Guy at Film Yard: “You’ve got to buy more water and keep it in reserve.” You’d think a bay area native, used to droughts in the 70s would be well-trained for that by now! Nope- I just had wine & apple juice in the fridge.
Friend was caught mid-shower, another friend came home to (hopefully) make lunch and realized the water was gone all over. No one at the cafe or store noticed anything- so it didn’t hit Washington Square Park. Mechanic on Columbus and some streetworkers were using water hoses. Odd.
SF Gate explanation sez it’s the PUC’s fault.
bldg security in our downtown highrise directed people not to use any water due to water main emergency.
according to some dude at the puc, this was a “planned outage.” this is either a lie or just idiotic:
via sfgate.com
A friend just skyped me from San Fran. He said they had no water, and neither did the whole city.
He works in a downtown building. Didn’t know why the pipes were dry. No news stories on Google News either. ???
oops, Joe just sent me this article…
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/08/BAGA1OHPH44.DTL
no way
Mary Mary
I was just at 555 California and they had low water pressure–low enough to close down the bathrooms, but enough to keep the Starbucks running.
Oddly enough, halfway up Nob Hill and there haven’t been any problems (yet).
gah! just reading about it made me have to use the restroom! (something about being told ‘you can’t’..)