{"id":46626,"date":"2021-02-19T02:14:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T02:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46626"},"modified":"2021-02-19T02:14:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T02:14:38","slug":"good-news-to-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46626","title":{"rendered":"Good news to report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=watersafety%20%23Texasstorm&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Water_drop_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34018\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Water_drop_001-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Water_drop_001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Water_drop_001-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Water_drop_001-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of Texans who are living with a boil-water advisory has declined by roughly 15,000 &#8230; or thereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>That is the estimated population of Princeton in Collin County, where my wife and I live and which issued such an advisory when the city&#8217;s water treatment plant went down during the worst of the massive snowstorm that blanketed the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality says the city has done what it should to make the tap water safe to consume. That&#8217;s good news, right? Right!<\/p>\n<p>The TCEQ recommends we run the water for two minutes before using it. Hey, we can do that.<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to share this bit of cheer with you because we&#8217;ve all been deluged &#8212; no pun intended &#8212; with a torrent of misery brought by Mother Nature and <em>worsened<\/em> by the mismanagement of the state&#8217;s massive electricity grid.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a way to go before we are totally free of the agony. It&#8217;s good to acknowledge that we are able to take baby steps toward that freedom.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=watersafety%20%23Texasstorm&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com The number of Texans who are living with a boil-water advisory has declined by roughly 15,000 &#8230; or thereabouts. That is the estimated population of Princeton in Collin County, where my wife and I live and which issued such an advisory when the city&#8217;s water treatment plant went down during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good news to report<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9624,9623],"class_list":["post-46626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-city-of-princeton","tag-texas-snowstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46627,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46626\/revisions\/46627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}