Boiling is better than going thirsty. And on the upside, we’ll still be able to flush our toilets.
Twelve hours after Fort Lauderdale and beyond awoke to learn its water supply was doomed and would likely dry up for a day or more, Mayor Dean Trantalis announced that the city’s no-water crisis seemingly and hopefully had been averted.
“Water is flowing,” Trantalis said at a Thursday evening news conference at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, near to where a Florida Power & Light subcontractor accidentally bored a 6-inch hole into a 3½-foot-wide pipe more than a full day earlier, as reported by the Sun Sentinel.
