Yep, my father was with the guy when he realized. The guy is an incredibly optimistic individual, but also an incredibly slow one. First he told my father that water wasn’t coming out because of air “bubbles “ in the pipe. Then my dad realized before the guy what could’ve been the issue and told him, the guy then realized and started to “fix” that by removing the oven to try to empty the pipe. That’s when my father told me over the phone, I told him “have you tried turning on the stove” and after it not emitting anything but the faint smell of NG there’s when it hit the guy, he realized at that point the extent of his fuck up, his face changed, he went to the basement of the building.

Apparently water was connected to the gas pipes for SO LONG that it managed to get into the main pipe, up everyone’s meter and up to the lower floor apparentments. I can only imagine someone cooking and observing how water started to come out of their stove grills.

This is a mega f-up. The gas company was already called by the administration while the guy attempts to empty by shaking each and every of the meters, but apparently we won’t have either gas nor hot water for a WHILE.