Shannon A. (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} shannon_a) wrote,@ 2008-05-16 00:00:00 |
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Hot Day
A very hot day. The weather reports promised 91, but it apparently got up to somewhere in the 96-98 range. I, stupid person that I am, did some errands in the afternoon, as I'd scheduled a few hours to getting my ID updated. I was maybe successful (we'll see in a month when a new driver's license either arrives or not; it's been promised before), but overheated myself when I biked to Oakland and back.
Meanwhile EBMUD has declared a drought. Their solution to the problem? A 10-19% cut across the board for all residential customers. I was finding it offensive already because we use a pretty small amount of water given that we have no cars to wash, no lawn to water, and no pool to fill, but I was even more offended when reading an article today about a woman who apparently pays $1400 in water every bi-month and just Can't give up her pool and lawn(!) Assuming our rates are the same, we use about 10% as much water as she does, yet we're being asked to cut back in our minimal usage, while she just has to refill the pool one less time or something.
Feh.
There's apparently an exclusion for users who use less than 100 gallons a day, but I doubt we're under that. It was like financial aid back in college. My mom made too little money to actually pay for college, but too much to get any financial aid.
Oh, and EBMUD is apparently requesting that people turn in their neighbors to the "water police" who will try and seek you out doing "bad stuff" and turn off your water.
No joke.
A very hot day. The weather reports promised 91, but it apparently got up to somewhere in the 96-98 range. I, stupid person that I am, did some errands in the afternoon, as I'd scheduled a few hours to getting my ID updated. I was maybe successful (we'll see in a month when a new driver's license either arrives or not; it's been promised before), but overheated myself when I biked to Oakland and back.
Meanwhile EBMUD has declared a drought. Their solution to the problem? A 10-19% cut across the board for all residential customers. I was finding it offensive already because we use a pretty small amount of water given that we have no cars to wash, no lawn to water, and no pool to fill, but I was even more offended when reading an article today about a woman who apparently pays $1400 in water every bi-month and just Can't give up her pool and lawn(!) Assuming our rates are the same, we use about 10% as much water as she does, yet we're being asked to cut back in our minimal usage, while she just has to refill the pool one less time or something.
Feh.
There's apparently an exclusion for users who use less than 100 gallons a day, but I doubt we're under that. It was like financial aid back in college. My mom made too little money to actually pay for college, but too much to get any financial aid.
Oh, and EBMUD is apparently requesting that people turn in their neighbors to the "water police" who will try and seek you out doing "bad stuff" and turn off your water.
No joke.
