Commentary

Good evening! Here we are already in the second month of 2010.  It's hard to believe that just some 43 days or so ago we were celebrating Christmas!  Time just seems to fly these days, especially the older that I get!


In mid-January, Jackson, the Mississippi state capital, suffered through a week-long water crisis.  The state was gripped by an extremely cold weather period where the temperature stayed below freezing for about 3 days and caused some 150 water main breaks around the city.  That caused issues with low water pressure, no water in some cases, busted pipes for some, and also there was a city-wide boil water alert that lasted for about a week.  It even affected the operations of state government.  Most state offices were closed for most of the week as a result of the issues with plumbing in the office buildings in the downtown area.  


Since then, however, the problems have been dealt with and all of the breaks have been repaired.  Hopefully, Jackson won't see anything like this again for a long, long time.  It caused a lot of inconvenience to a lot of people for sure.


The next issue that Central Mississippi has has to deal with is a lot of rain.  It seems like there's a wet weather pattern - thus far we've gotten almost 5 1/2 inches of rain in 2010 - we can't seem to dry out!  It would be nice to have a week or so of completely dry days, but the forecast doesn't indicate that's going to happen anytime soon.  


Stay tuned....