Eggs not all in one basket

The lead on this morning's local radio news was that a small town north of here suffered a broken water main, and is without water - but, at the same time, isn't without water.

The city water supply is temporarily toast, but (the mayor explained live) there was one citizen inside the city limits with a private well who was providing water to everyone, as were a few citizens outside the city limits with wells.

The mayor also assured everyone that there was a back-up plan should the community suffer a fire before the water lines were back in service. He declined to give even an outline of that back-up plan. (Not that I particularly wanted one. I'm a big fan of not letting bad guys know how cities are set up to deal with things like compromised water systems.)

The hope is that city water will be restored sometime today. In the meantime, hooray for the maverick with an in-town well.