The boil water situation was resolved last night. We got a reverse 911 call about 6:15pm, which was nice as we got no such call to tell us to boil water.

Judging from comments on the local paper website, I'd guess half to 2/3ds of the people in town were clueless on how to boil water. I swear, I coulda made a small, very small, fortune on selling the recipes.

We just used an electric teapot, 2 liters, to quickly boil the water and put it into pitchers, then into the fridge. Not like we don't have a stack of bottled water in the garage anyhow, but this wasn't a "real" emergency.