On Tuesday, families pulled up to the Lafayette City Hall to get the one thing they can’t live without. Inside city hall, cases and cases of water piled up, ready to be given out.
“The city of Lafayette has been out all during the Christmas holiday, trying, once the freezing temperatures got here, the utility workers started getting out trying to find any leaks,” said Mayor Steve Jones with Macon County.
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I hadn't heard about this until I read the news after I got back from town that day. I had been to the store and saw no shortages of water, I saw nobody buying water, and when I drove around the courthouse on my way home, I saw nobody getting water nor did I see any trucks delivering it. Matter of fact, traffic and parking around the courthouse wasn't any worse than it normally is.
I've made a couple small trips into town since and I've yet to talk to anybody that was affected by any leaks or broken mains, so I really don't know what the deal is.
Myself, I figured better safe than sorry, so I had a pair of 5 gallon water cans and a bunch of 1 gallon jugs already in the house for washing and flushing, plus a couple cases of water for drinking. After reading that story I felt kinda ripped off because I didn't get to use any of it other than my normal water intake.
