Today I was urged to “hurry and take a shower!”  This happens when the water pressure starts to fall.  This isn’t all that common of an occurrence in Puerto Rico, but it happens enough that I know I need to do the three S’s or I won’t be able to later on.  It is always a mystery on why the water decides to go.  Sometimes outages are planned.  One time recently, they decided that they would shut down all of San Juan’s water to do an upgrade.  Most outages are not planned though and today will be one of those days.  The water pressure goes to nothing in about a two hour time span for unknown reasons.

The only hot water in my house is what comes out of the shower (there is no hot water heater).  It has an antiquated version of what we would call today “Instant Hot Water”.  The whole setup is a little strange.  There is no hot and cold controls in the shower.  You control the heat by how much water is let out.  The more water that comes through the system the less of a chance the water has of being warmed.  So if you want a warm shower, you need to turn it all the way on.  A hot shower you need to barely turn it on.  There is a problem though, if there is not enough pressure, the heater won’t turn on.

So today as my shower came out in a slow stream of cold water…  At least I was able to take one!