The Pom was fine, thank God.
The rest of this post is a bit of a rant.... just working my way through...... getting a grip on what 's to come and there's always somethig on the island.
The Pom Mom let me know the citt water us experiencing lowered water pressure. I guess on the entire island during the increased holiday's tourist season, but she didn't know that. This is new and complicated by the indoor shower's drain blockage due to rust, bc galvanized pipes. Housekeeper said there was no change or problems when she set up cottage during the week so this is new and unfolding trouble with high tourist season. Things seemed normal last week.
It used to be we had great water pressure and everyone South had very little, or zero..... the people at the far South side have their water trucked in. They have limited pressure and have to be very careful to conserve esp to keep from running the tank dry, which will ruin the pump.... as I understand it.
I'm just saying..... everyone with city water now has trouble.... I think.... on our side, perhaps..... and I'm not sure if that's all the time or just during high tourist season.
I don't know if the North island has pressure or is it just our side being impacted. I don't know who knows or if anyone knows, bc that's how things seem to go. Cometence and leadership don't seem to be something the utility companies require, leaning more towards less exensive employees without experience and I get that, but..... half the power plant burned down bc of that firing and hig habit. I doubt it's paying off in the long run.
I don't know if the line will be run further South..... which seems really nuts, since the system can't handle what it has now. Water service is $90.00 a month and that's if you're using zero gallons, btw. There's a set number of gallons, we never reach, then more charges for overage.
This is the first tourist season since they installed the water lines South.
I don't know if these guests understand the entire island was involved, not just the Cottage, bc 2 days with a blocked shower drain was upsetting, understandably, and when folks are upset, they don't resason very well, IME. There's an outdoor shower and I actually prefer using that one, so I didn't see a crisis situation for them, then the daughter reported a "bad smell" coming from the standing water in the shower, which I interpreted as sewer water smell,. but was just the smell of standing water, turns out. It's funny how people miss the fact..... they're no longer in a First World Country when on the island. There's ONE plumber.... just ONE and I depend on the relationship my housekeeper has with him to get any attention at all...... and if pushed, the plumber just stops answering the phone and decides not to come at all. Guests research plumbers and go about asking locals for a plumber's name and send photos of the standing water to the nice appliance repairman they grabbed onto as a possible solution then text and text and text all day Monday till the plumber shows and NO ONE tells me he showed or that he fixed the problem temporarily or if the fix is substantial. I still don't know anything except it seems time to redo the bathroom without my go-to guy.
Trying to figure out what the EXACT problems were, to troubleshoot them, was vastly complicated by the changing water pressure problems..... and it remains an unknown..... I have to accept I can't know right now.
I'd like to have the housekeeper and "caretaker" clue me in.... let me know the entire island is experiencing a change in water pressure, yet..... it was the plumber, who slipped us into his very full Monday schedule, who said he could do nothing about the pressure, which wasn't JUSt the shower pressure, but the entire Cottage, but maybe not before the weekend began. I had to piece this together through many questions...... I guess people who live on the island are very flat about it and not interested in talking about it, bc they just don't.
The idea, perhaps necessity, of hooking up the under cottage cisterns again is driving me to distraction. Maybe it's fair that occupants further South finally get to pay $90.00 a month and get some pressure while those of us who've had good pressure go back to cisterns to retain decent pressure. That means adding a big pump, dealing with chlorine again and routing the gutters back into the cisterns....
and i think my handy man is gone. Poof. Another surprise, but I can't find his number or any chats in this new phone. Every else's chats are there, but not him.
Houekeeper going on vacation and I might go and spend some time there, go to Nassau to deal with paperwork and figure out how to go forward. DD20 is driving with more confidence to school now that she's looking both ways before proceeding through a green light..... there seem to be so many people blowing through red lights around here..... maybe it was yellow when they decided to speed up and blow the red,but they're running super red lights in this area. Is that happening where you guys live too?
We joke about people running red lights now, which seems wrong, but there it is. I'll resist blaming the Snow Birds from Florida, but it seems like tourist season is having an impact on many things right now. What is it about people in Florida cutting off other drivers when using their turn signals? It's a thing, and I've the same thing from friends living there. We have super short entrance ramps on our highways... I mean, dangerously short and tourist season is making that more dangerous too.
Maybe the water company will figure this out and not just charge a bunch more people for the same really crap water pressure? Maybe this is a temporary hiccup?
::thinking about how to spin this in the Airbnb description of the Cottage::.
Glamping....
with outdoor bathing in the Atlantic?
Cleaning dishes was always a PITA, but it's really hard without running water, IME. I have to say..... I bring a stack of paper plates when I go, bc I really hate washing dishes, esp LOTS of dishes for a group in a small kitchen. The island only sells those styrophoam plates, which I refuse to purchase or use.....
::doing the math in my head
How many paper plates does $90.00 buy AND could I just punch a hole through the bathroom wall to run the hose connected to the cistern and already on a pump? Could I put an on off valve at the end of that hose to control the flow? These are the ramblings of a person who doesn't undstand plumbing enough to resolve her current issues, yup yup yup.
The jouorney continues.
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