This just made me and about 5000 other households in my area very, very happy: the water main break has been fixed, and our water just came back on. They actually had to shut down the water plant in order to fix the break. I've been sitting up waiting, so I could open my taps to drip, because this is pipe-freezing weather.
I swear, tomorrow I'm going to hit the local fancy-schmancy grocer, and get donuts and brownies and cake, oh my, and take them out to the water plant, for the guys who were out there in sub-freezing cold (12F right now) for nine hours, fixing this.
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"I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people," said the man. "You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides."
-- Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!