Austin Mayor: ‘Wish We Could Tell People’ When Situation Would Improve

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ADLER: “We don’t have any good answers because we can’t give people an exact time when the water is going to be able to come back. And the reason for that is we don’t know until things thaw, exactly what is the status of the pipes in the city. We fear that there’s going to be real significant breakage of pipes following from the frozen situation that we had for the last week. But we have every crew out working on this. We’re going to bring it up just as rapidly as we can. We’re lobbying the state right now to waive some of the regulations so that we can speed up the process of recovery on the back end, and we’re continuing to give updates to our community as we get additional information. I wish we could tell people when, but we know that it’s not going to be tomorrow or the next day. We just don’t know how long.”