This has happened a few times during my previous visits, but never for more than a couple hours at a time. But a couple days ago the water went off at mid-day and stayed off for about 24 hours - ruining my plans for a pasta dinner to say the least. Last night it went off for another 12 hour span. An email forwarded to me by the property manager this morning explains - well, explains is perhaps giving too much credit, touches upon is more accurate - the situation:
Subject: no water
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:16:11 -0800
everyone.....i am sorry but tonight thursday at 8pm we forced to shut off the water to the entire system and project.......the board of directors are doing our very best to over come this crisis but it is what it is as i explained today in my earlier e-mail......you have no idea how much time and energy we all putting into delivering water to your homes......the system will be turned on again at 6:30am tomorrow and many locations may experience low pressure until the air escapes........hopefully with shutting it down tonight everyone can experience 36 hours of water until we have to shut it down again......this will be happening for at least the next 14 days...also i still do not have my complete mailing list so please pass the word to your friends.......thanks rick walkerOne can readily surmise the severity of the crisis from the quantity of ellipses involved.
I might note that 6:30 proved to be optimistic by about two and a half hours, but this difference can safely be attributed to "tico time" - a mysterious time zone some unspecified degrees longitude west of here, according to whose clock all Costa Rican deadlines and appointments are approximately kept.
At any rate I am stocking up on water. Pitchers and bowls and pots full of it are crammed in the fridge and on the stove. And toilet use has assumed a tactical dimension normally experienced only during long road trips through unfamiliar country.
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