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Montgomery County plumbers take three weeks to fix a leak.

"Workers fixed the leaking valve Friday. County Water Supply Specialist Keith Baker said taking three weeks to fix a leak “is not normal, but it’s not out of the ordinary.”
“The public’s not necessarily aware all the time. We might have crews working on another project that has a higher priority, say safety for example,” he said. “It’s not that we’re not doing anything.”"

But since the county obtains its money by theft, they have no incentive to work quickly or efficiently, and they have no incentive to satisfy their customers, so they don't. Notice the guy refused to say exactly what projects they were working on that had higher priority. Here's a breakdown on the inefficiency of socialist water delivery.

"The county has three small crews maintaining and repairing 2,300 miles of pipe in the county, officials said. They respond to hundreds of maintenance calls per month and have had 482 leaks so far this year — about 50 per month — which is similar to previous years."

That's crazy. That's an incredibly high maintenance system. It's a socialist jobs program, not an efficient way to deliver water.

Blustery winds knock out power to thousands. It doesn't even take storms any more. It just takes a couple of gusts of wind to knock out government's archaic power grid.