On 6/28/2014 4:08 PM, George Leppla wrote:
> On 6/28/2014 2:44 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 6/28/2014 12:54 PM, Janet wrote:
>>> Surely your water supply co will deliver bottled water, or a shared
>>> bowser?
>>>
>>> Janet UK
>>
>> That's a term that skated right over my head. What on earth is a shared
>> bowser?
>>
>> Jill
>>
>
> A "bowser" is a tanker... usually on wheels. Can be used for water or
> fuel. Some look like this:
>
> http://www.toptecheng.net/Agricultur...%20wheeler.jpg
>
>
> Haven't heard that word used in many years.
>
> George

Thanks! There are thousands of people in this area so they'd have
needed a lot of them. Nope, the water company wouldn't do that for a
projected 24 hour outage.

I'm glad I got my shower before the water main broke. It would have
been awful to be stuck with shampoo in my hair when it ran out. Ugh.

Jill