Steady rain all day.
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bone dry, extreme drought conditions in the keys.
going on four months since measurable rain. somewhere near 4-5 inch deficit.
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How do you get your tap water on the Keys?
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During the day, it’s
what comes thru the taps.
Once the Sun goes down, it’s
all the way!
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funny you should ask.
ALL our fresh water is pipelined into the keys from mainland Miami-Dade. funny/not funny is that we are currently experiencing massive drop in water pressure as water main breaks further down the archipelago, have prompted major new projects to replace the entire 122 miles of pipe. anyone who has traveled the Overseas Hiway US1 knows that it is two lanes frome Islamorada to Key West. the work has caused major backups along the way, and they have only completed arounf 20 miles!
we had business in KW last week and the last 22 miles of our return trip took over two hours. getting to KW only took an hour and a half.
great! i need to water my gardens more, yet being told to use less (so folks downstrean get any pressure at all). water bill increased over 100% last month, but i’m not losing my fruit trees.
@MerelyGifted , i wish!
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Could make a fortune bottling both!
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That was the only option I could think of, but it seemed too absurd. So, all I can say is “wow.”
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totally absurd, yes. but there is no fresh water on the islands.
the first crazy part is that to get here, the water main has to traverse the dreaded “Eighteen Mile Stretch”. this is the inhabitable section of straightaway connecting the mainland to key largo. it goes over 18 miles of the outflow swampland of the Everglades.
second crazy part is that, in all the collective genius of FDOT, they are also resurfacing the two-lane stretch at the same time as the water main repair further down the US1!
our idiot governor absolutely despises the keys and - more directly - Key West (too progressive, too gay) and approved all this traffic-choking construction to somehow punish us for demanding protections to our delicate reef environment.
i digress.
the last crazy aspect of the entire situation: i’ll never leave this place. i love it too much.
edit: clarifying addition.
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I must say it seems awfully silly to pipe water 122 miles just so you can flush the toilet! Or do you have a gray water flushing scheme?
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Nearly a week later and the power is back on. I’m not a fan of this maybe being the new normal.
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Glad the power is back on for you… that’s a long time to be without power.
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Oh, wow. I thought you said earlier that they were telling you up to a week, but I thought that was surely an overestimate. I’m glad to hear you finally have power!
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That’s awful! Worse than blackout 2003!!!
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A good thing to do.
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I was living in a place with a whole house generator backup at that point. It was a rental and I hated everything about the house…except that generator. I miss that clunky beast!
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Our power was out the whole time during blackout 2003.
Neighbors at a house across the street from us still had their power on the whole time! No generator, either! Mom told them we should convert to the Salvation Army, just like them XD
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ain’t capitalism grand?! (/s)
believe me, i consider this every time i stay in Key West. water is precious here, i know that. we need a better way.
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That looks better than what they get in upstate New York! 
Yikes! This makes me wonder about the efficiency of atmospheric water generators.
After a dry winter punctuated by two very nasty storms in Feb and March, we are finally getting normal rainfall in eastern PA. Burn bans have been lifted, too. Based on the power outages that my neighbors reported while I was away, I’m looking at solar generators or a power station like one of these:
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In the past 24 hours we have had more than 3 inches. For those who still use metric: that’s like a lot.
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