I let the guard out at 6 a.m.  He told me that the water had come back on.  So I trundled upstairs and put a load of cloths in the washing machine.  And then another.  And another.  And at 2 p.m. I took the last load out.  Thankfully we are in the middle of the long dry season so everything got dry.  We hang our laundry on the lines out back.  When they fill up, as they did today, we have lines on the side porch.  After that we have more lines on the side balcony. The water had been off for more days than we care to count.  One of those days near the end we had no electricity.  Of course that made it so there was no internet connection.  But we made it safely through to the end and now everything is all clean again.  Things always work out one way or another.  It's all part of living on the Dark Side of the Moon.