We had a similar problem here just before Christmas. A main broke and much of the county was without water for a few hours (Guests were just arriving for my son's 30th). The initial problem was major for lots of people (they never do take the hurricane preparedness seriously) but only a minor inconvinence for us - bottled stuff, er - water to drink, fill buckets for the toilets, put out hand sanitizer and wet naps for hand cleaning, use disposables so no dishwashing would be required. Turned out the outage was short lived and the boil order was only a couple of days.

Respectfully,

Jerry