Although it is not media related, I have also been watching the water pipe at the base of the tree on my patio everytime the sprinklers come on. It burst the other day and flooded the patio. They fixed it, but they did not fix it right well enough, so they fixed it again yesterday. Thank goodness, it's the pipe that waters the grass for the courtyard in this complex and doesn't affect the apartments (although it did mean that no one could water their plants using the faucets on their patios). I figure if I could hobble inside and fill my watering can in the kitchen to water the plants that really needed it, then anyone could (even the woman who was perturbed because she'd had to wait to water her roses). I told her (nicely, of course) that if there was a way to get all the water that had flooded my patio twice to her plants that she could have it.
So far, the repair seems to be holding.
