Must use bottled water for everything. Drinking, washing, flushing. Everything has had to close: all restaurants, hotels, schools, The University. Everything. All events canceled or moved out of town.

PortaJohns on campus. Things are really bad at the hospitals, nursing homes, and such.

My situation is typical. I have four gallons to get me through tomorrow. Not many flushes from that. Hope things are ok by Saturday late, but this could drag on another couple of days. At least we're not in a winter storm at the moment.

on my way home from picking up my car which was being serviced at the dealer. They are the 16.9 oz bottles, so that's a little over 9 gallons for my husband and me.

My oldest son lives in Cary and he called to see if we wanted him to bring us some water. I told him I'm going to tell my husband to pee off the back deck--no flushing except for poo--and I will use the third world system of only disposing of TP in a trash bag.

Fortunately, this is not state wide--like a hurricane hit--so people can run out to stores outside of Chapel Hill/Carrborro
to get water.

We'll manage.

It does reinforce the notion of always having a supply of bottled water on hand for emergencies, though.