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  1. Bonnie Hauser

     /  February 6, 2017

    People can give back by trying to support local stores and restaurants in the next few days

    To me, the coordinated emergency response was extraordinary and deserves a great big thank you.

    For some, it raised the important question of whether or not we are properly focused on priorities such as water infrastructure and control systems, communication systems, etc) or are we spending too much resource on ideological (and in some cases outdated) priorities such as DOLRT.

    #firstthingsfirst

  2. George C

     /  February 6, 2017

    Nancy,

    Nice shout-out to those who worked so hard and generously to get us through this emergency.

    Thanks

  3. Terri

     /  February 6, 2017

    Bonnie–the water and sewer infrastructure is a totally separate funding source from DOLRT. There is absolutely no relationship between them.

  4. bart

     /  February 6, 2017

    I think Bonnie has a point though. Resources are not only about money. Time, energy, planning, scenario-gaming are resources we don’t have enough of. Devoting so much energy to community discussions of possible futures and/or getting on national bandwagons does divert that finite human resource away from what we have NOW that might need tending.

    All things considered, I too found this water crisis much more alarming than the irregular ice storm. Infrastructure is built, managed and maintained by us. Are we doing enough to make it as robust as it needs, even as we willfully stretch it out to accommodate more and more people?

    I spent part of Saturday visiting relatives in Fuquay and heard no end of ribbing about “third-world Chapel Hill.” I laughed with them until I reflected on my local tax bill. Then I just sighed.

    All kudos to the men and women who worked hard to fix the situation. I’d still like to know how our infrastructure got this fragile. Honestly, an error and one broken pipe (albeit a big one) brought it all to a stop?

  5. Deborah Fulghieri

     /  February 7, 2017

    I didn’t think of Rwanda. I thought of Flint, Michigan.

  6. Brandon Rector

     /  February 9, 2017

    FYI. Harris Teeter DID NOT give water away. They charged me on Saturday morning. It wasn’t expensive, but it wasn’t free.

  7. Bart

     /  February 9, 2017

    They gave boxes of three gallon jugs out to a line of people at the meadowmont store. I was there and got a box. I understand they did this at other locations as well.

    It was completely free. Personnel from the nearby fire station helped out.

  8. Nancy

     /  February 9, 2017

    We also got a box of 3 gallon jugs each, for free, at Meadowmont HT Friday night. No one asked to see Social Services ID. In fact, we thought it would be one per car, but the firefighters gave us each a box. We used only one box, so Monday I returned the unopened box.