How things change in a few hours. Yesterday's report about contaminated water turned out to be an internet hoax. Three men have been arrested. We received a text message from our phone company late at night telling us all about it. Since the message was in Chinese we didn't understand it anyway, and it was the middle of the morning before a friend translated the message for us. As was mentioned in the last posting the rumor of water being shut off caused massive overbuying all over the city. We were convinced that there was a problem as we heard it from a friend who was told by the German Consulate and also it was announced on the English television news. We're grateful that there is no problem. Now, what to do with all of the water stored in buckets, the wash machine, and all of the pots and pans.
Life seems to be returning to normal in a slow fashion. We're not returning to work until Monday, or, perhaps later. Most businesses seem to be open although we're not sure about the offices in the high rise buildings.
he news we watch of the rescue efforts and the damage reminds that our problems are so small in comparison with those not to far away, again, we are grateful.
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