We received a warning that the town 'watermains' were going to be flushed over a few weeks. The warning was because apparently the water coming into the house can be 'discolored' and may cause staining if used for laundry. It didn't mention local flooding. The water being let out of 'our' fire hydrant ran down the street and into the storm drain, only causing minor inconvenience at the end of the morning rush-hour yesterday morning. The reason for this work is to remove rusty water from dead spots in the system (such as the spurs to the hydrants perhaps). In looking this up I just discovered that the familiar 'H' signs marking water access spots in the UK stand for 'hydrant'. My education was clearly lacking.We are not allowed to use a hose to sprinkle lawns or shrubs between 10 am and 6 pm - a sensible water conservation policy. It has however meant that our newly seeded patch of lawn has been drying out badly during the long warm dry days we've been having recently (whether a patch of dirt with grass seed on it counts as 'lawn' for the purpose of this rule is not entirely clear).
Today as I got home at 6.40 pm or so, I was preparing to get the hose out when I discovered that not only was it already damp, but there was a significant development - some compensation for the neighbours' trees (of the same type as the dead one we removed) which are currently in full bloom as you can see above.
Perhaps you thought H = H2O.
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I've been trying to work it out, but I think I may have thought (from the age of 4 or 5?) that the primary purpose of the lines was to separate the two numbers and that it was a coincidence that it looks like an H!
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