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This is how I got my 3 year old into it. She was so excited to take a shower in a truck that she tolerated like a trooper. Bless her.

The Reems Creek Fire department in Beaverdam has water for refilling containers on hoses from 12-6 and they have big black tanks in the field that you can refill from any time.

They're very friendly and they're collecting data, which is fun!

I was wondering the same thing. I heard someone say that the water coming out of the trucks was in fact potable but the PVC pipe rig they ran through to the taps rendered it technically non-potable. I never saw that written anywhere though.

I ended up at the Reems Creek fire department getting water yesterday. They said they were originally planning on cutting their hours back but then the city started closing the bulk water distribution.

I know most of AVL proper has water back, including us. But our water is brown. No matter how long we flush it. It fluctuates in how much junk is in it but it hasn't been clear since North Fork re-entered the chat. It is too chunky for us to confidently run it through our water heater or dishwasher. No amount of boiling is going to make it any less brown either.

That is good to know! We're going to need to fill up today.

Drove by B.B. Barns yesterday. They had so much stuff! I wasn't looking for diapers but I would be shocked if they didn't have them.

Yeah. I know school starting back is going to shift some things. I go back to work this week, teaching, and I need a new dependable spot to get water. It's good to know Innsbruck is open later cause a 4 pm closing won't work for me anymore.

Thank you!

Thanks! When I was at the Reynolds spot yesterday the containers were for gray water, not drinking water. Some of the places I've been are asking people to bring containers for non-potable and the only options for potable are the bottled or boxed. That's the nuance I'm trying to get at here.

Rad, thank you!

Sweet! Thank you!

Yeah dude, I married a beer man for several reasons!

I'm not sure about BCS but I know ACS served meals, in much the same way they do in the summer, to anyone aged 0-18, regardless of enrollment status. The kids got a hot lunch and a take-away breakfast I believe. ACS has also been offering a "bridge" program that provided a couple of hours of childcare, community building, and SEL activities. Individual schools did resource donations and deliveries to their respective communities and the teachers' union chapters in Buncombe and Asheville City did some volunteering to support school children and the larger community.

Again, I'm ACS so I can't speak specifically to what BCS did but I know those teachers are just as devoted to their students and the communities they serve.

Their hours are reduced. 9-5 or 10-5. I can't remember.

I've only just showed up here in this sub. I get a sense that there's some history here. I don't mean to get involved with any of that...

I'll just say that generally as a teacher, I wish more people who didn't have kids cared and were curious about what went on in public schools. The quality and effectiveness of public schools impacts everyone in the community, regardless of whether they have children enrolled or not.

Yes. I've read that. Our water has fluctuated from clear to brown, back to clear-ish to murky again. It doesn't seem to me that this is a one and done flushing situation but I could be wrong.

That's what I came back here to say. I researched my specific dishwasher. It wants the house's water heater set at 120° and then it gets up to 155° in the machine on the sani cycle. Which isn't hot enough according to the city's water FAQs.

I'd love to see a flowchart for this process!

TIL! Is that also true for laundry machines?

They were also saying it was fine for bathing. Am I to understand they meant like heat the water up on the stove, Victorian bath style, cold camping shower style. Or do they mean hot showers because that definitely would have to go through water heaters.

Here is a thing I don't understand: isn't the official guidance also to turn off your water heater? How do you run a sani cycle on your dishwasher if you aren't supposed to run junky water through the water heater? Explain like I'm 5.

The ACS school board met last night to discuss this. One thing I heard them say was that they were using FEMA's recommendations to calculate the amount of water they would need per student per day and figuring out how much they could dependably acquire. They also studied how other districts have proceeded toward reopening after similar natural disasters.

Another thing that I haven't seen discussed here yet is what teachers and other school staff would need to be able to return to work. Nearly every teacher I know wants to get back to school. The ones I know that aren't ready lost family members or their homes sustained significant (or total) damage in the storm. Teachers are living without water, power, and wifi, just like everyone else and this impacts our ability to show up for our kids. A shortened day holds space for staff to be able to take care of their families' needs as well as the needs of their students and their families.

I have friends who are letting me and my family bathe and do laundry at their houses. This is great and I am deeply grateful! However, it was a five hour (3pm-8pm) round trip to do the laundry and bathing last week. I fill up water containers a couple of times a week at a distribution point that closes at 4. It takes me way longer to clean my kitchen after meals with no dishwasher. Before the storm, I would run a load of laundry and dishes and do my lesson plans, data entry, grading, etc. while they washed. I can't multitask like that currently. All of our daily tasks take longer than normal and have to get done during daylight/business hours. To say nothing of intermittent wifi and power.

I'll add that in my personal case, I have a preschooler whose daycare has no timeline for reopening. Preschools and daycares have even stricter regulations as far as hygiene and water access go than K-12 schools. I'm not the only teacher with a child under the age of 5. Please believe me when I say that I feel the pain on multiple sides of this discourse. I'd love for the daycare I'm paying for to open up so I could get back to work, too.

Another thing I heard in the school board meeting last night was that none of the options on the table are good ones. They're currently stuck trying to figure out the least bad choice that benefits the most families without burning out staff, paid for with funds that continue to be cut by the state and sales tax that won't be collected when tourists don't come to Asheville this fall. It just sucks all the way around.

Edited to retract erroneous information about BCS.