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I was in downtown Columbia, SC for this rainstorm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2015_North_American_storm_complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octobe
by impendia 9y ago
I was in downtown Columbia, SC for this rainstorm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2015_North_American_storm_complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2015_North_American_st...
The next morning, my girlfriend and I ventured out on foot to attend a yoga class. The yoga studio was closed, so we went to the Waffle House next door and got something to eat. They told us that their water supply had been compromised, but had made special arrangements so they could make coffee safely. We enjoyed a hearty breakfast.
We learned only later that some areas of town had gotten two feet of rain, that houses and businesses were underwater, that multiple dams had been breached, that we should boil all our tap water for a week, and that most people in town were without water entirely. My employer (the University of South Carolina) shut down for a week.
Indeed. Waffle House doesn't kid around.
- cjslep 9y agoI suppose it wasn't the Waffle House by Garner's Ferry Road and I77? I have relatives near that part of Columbia and was supposed to see them that early October but wasn't able to due to that massive amount of flooding. It was unreal. Luckily, they love on a hill and avoided a lot of damage.
- impendia 9y agoThe one on Harden Street in Five Points. That part of town, and the whole downtown area, was mostly unscathed.
- chucksmash 9y agoI lived just around the corner from that overpass for several years. A bit surreal to see it come up on HN.
- quickthrower2 9y agoIf you can't do yoga ... Eat waffles. You sound like me.
- brown9-2 9y agoI'm curious if there is really any way for a custom to verify the claims about being able to make coffee safely.
- cstross 9y agoIf you're drinking hot coffee, then by definition the water has been heated to at least 85 degrees celsius, if not boiled.
- humanrebar 9y agoThat protects you against most organisms, but not all chemicals can be boiled away.