Not fun. Feel very fortunate to heat our home with wood - but having no hot water since yesterday is getting old. Public schools are closed, as is the U of I and numerous restaurants etc.
UPDATE AT 4:59 P.M.:
The natural gas pipeline that was ruptured Wednesday has been repaired, according to a news release from the company that owns the pipeline north of Pullman.
"As of today, the repairs have been successfully completed," Williams Companies said in a news release.
But that won't mean immediate restoration of gas services to the estimated 37,000 customers who have been affected. Avista Utilities must purge the system, then relight gas appliances in a house-by-house process. The company has said that will take an estimated three to five days.
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The natural gas outage affecting the region started when a landowner pulling a plow through a field as he was installing a drainage pipe hit and ruptured the natural gas pipeline north of Pullman near U.S. Highway 195 on Wednesday afternoon.
The incident led to 37,000 Avista customers in southeastern Washington and north central Idaho to lose service.
Moscow Pullman Daily News