As expected, it really did not take long before every single person in the building's main group chat was talking about the sudden water outage. The messages poured in one after another, making the notification counter climb nonstop. Some people were asking what had happened, while others desperately hoped it was only a temporary interruption. A few of the more optimistic neighbors even tried calling the municipal water authority directly, convinced that somebody would eventually answer if they kept trying. The final result was completely predictable. The lines were either dead from the beginning or they rang until disconnecting automatically without anybody picking up.
