A mandatory water boil notice issued in Rockport just days before Thanksgiving has left residents and businesses concerned about holiday preparations after a lightning strike damaged the city’s water infrastructure.
Chris Wren, who is visiting family for Thanksgiving after moving to Colorado, said his family lost water Saturday but continued using it once service was restored because he never received notification about the boil water notice.
“We lost water yesterday. My first concern was we’re going to have a water boil, but I never heard anything about it all day yesterday, so we continued to use the water once the water was restored,” Wren said…