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  Isn't their representative Rep. Bennie Thompson who chairs the Jan 6 commission. So is you are are resident of Jackson Mississippi where do you want your representative to focus his energy? so in 2024 what will be his re-election calling card . I helped fix the water issue or Jan 6 commission?
context: Merry Christmas, if it isn’t the heat it’ll be the cold. >
  
  I work for a water utility and it’s crazy how unprepared people were for this weather. 
  We’re in an area that sees cold weather, but not this cold. Average lows might dip down into the teens a couple nights a year, but they’re somewhat rare.
  We were seeing windchills near -30F which is just unheard of. Waterlines are bursting left and right. People just didn’t have their homes set up to deal with this level of cold.
  The utility’s lines are fine, they’re all buried plenty deep enough to deal with a weekends worth of arctic cold, but the homes in the area aren’t. 
  I had 4 calls last night myself. The other 2 guys on call had at least as many as I had. I might not have 4 calls in a month lol. >
  
  What part of the country are you in? >
  
  South eastern KY >
  
  make sure yall get some rest. but its also not unreasonable for people to be unprepared for extremes like this. >
  
  Oh for sure, I don’t blame them one bit. Temps dropped 40 degrees over night. It was wild. 
  And no worries on the rest part. The way our rotation works out, worst case scenario you’ll be out for 2 hours and will have at least 4 hours back home without having to worry about it. Can suck when it’s non-stop, but more or less it’s rare that it’s like that. >
  
  Wasn't Jackson just having water problems? Is this new or just a new turd on the pile? >
  
  Yes, hence "more water problems" in the title. >
  
  I've been drinking and completely missed the word more >
  
  The water in Jackson? Cause uhhh, you might wanna stop. >
  
  Nah, he's a lil fuzzy on reading. If he was drinking the Jackson water he'd be crying on the toilet or mysteriously ill. >
  
  shocked they haven't rioted against the state government that refuses to provide potable water. what kind of nonsense is it that the wealthiest country on earth still has citizens that cannot access potable water? >
  
  There is a deep disconnect between the city government and the state government in Jackson. Last I heard, the city effectively wanted a blank check to fix it while the state wanted an actual plan before releasing funding as the city has a history of mismanaging funding (see everything that lead to this exact situation as an example) >
  
  Maybe another mayor or governor is needed to hopefully fix all this legacy in the area..... >
  
  Memphis had a boil water notice as well, and they always gloat about their tap water. Why do cold temperatures cause a boil water notice when in normal temperatures there’s no pathogens to boil? >
  
  There’s no pathogens in a correctly functioning system.
  When something breaks — water pressure drops, or a pipe breaks in a freeze, for example — this can allow random outside stuff into the system, and now who knows what’s in your water, until they can get it sealed off, back up to pressure, and flushed through.
  It might be fine. It might be lightly contaminated but good enough unless you are immune compromised or get it in your contacts or up your nose. Or it might be more heavily or dangerously contaminated. So they play it safe. >
  
  WTF is going on with the US? Why is it getting so crappy here? >
  
  Predominantly black city in a state that elects a lot of racist politicians. Also see: Flint, MI >
  
  Are you blaming the city or state officials with this statement? >
  
  Humans. Humans fucking suck. >
  
  I guess it’s another great day to not be in Jackson! >
  
  the city has known about its problems for DECADES and done absolutely nothing about it.
  The system is owned by the CITY not the state or the feds.
  The City has consistently done things to kick the can down the road and try to make others deal with it, but now they are out of proverbial road.
  People want to blame the state or the feds for not giving them money, but FFS people PAY for the service, it should 100% self supporting, but the City of Jackson cant even bill the shit properly with millions of dollars of unbilled services from the water service identified in the past several audits.
  Now tell me again how this is the state's or the fed's problem to pay for. 
  And we havent even talked about the unusually cold weather thats triggered this and the number of homes with burst pipes or maybe the rolling blackouts forced from power generators on the entire region. (Even Memphis which actually has a great water system was forced it issue boil water alerts) 
  so yeah make this a state or federal political thing when its just Jackson being Jackson wanting everyone else to pay for their fuckups >
  
  First problem it has is being in Mississippi. >
  
  He is a resident first. He can make calls and people will answer