Stanford Slabbert writes: I called the NMBM JOC Water Department at 5.30 pm exactly today and they confirm that the entire Summerstrand will have access to water in a couple of hours.
They are waiting to have the reservoir full of water before opening the main tap for this area.
The water-tank truck is at the Mercado Centre – Summerbreezz Spar for the rest of the evening.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Please DO NOT PANIC.
Stanford Slabbert
Related: The Real Reason Why You Don’t Have Water in Summerstrand
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Werner Senekal is the caretaker councillor of Ward 1 in the Nelson Mandela Metro.
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hmmm
A couple is 2. Three hours later, still no water. Get it right or keep quiet.
According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary Couple can mean “an indefinite small number : few ”
So the statement isn’t necessarily incorrect.
Perhaps you care to evaluate that definition by using it in various contexts. As in “Don’t the three of them make a lovely couple?”
That is English for you
Here are the options from Merriam Webster, but couple referring to time can be indefinite
cou·ple noun
?k?-p?l; “couple of” is often ?k?-pl?(v)
Definition of COUPLE1a : two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically pairedb : two persons paired together 2: pair, brace 3: something that joins or links two things together: asa : two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel linesb : a pair of substances that in contact with an electrolyte participate in a transfer of electrons which causes an electric current to flow4: an indefinite small number : few
So my wife and I are a couple – is that a twosome or a threesome? 🙂
Depends on your eye sight, the wildness of your dreams and of course a couple too many Fanta Browns. Unfortunately the relationship couple doesn’t relate to time, so it is only 2. 🙂
Four hours.
14 hours.
According to the above post, we should have had water by 8am yesterday. it is now 48 hours since the pipe was restored and we still have no water
A couple of hours would have been 7:30 pm on 6 August 2012. That would have made the wait up until right now 12 hours and 15 minutes. All semantics, though, when one doesn’t have water.
Once again I now understand why the Walmer Residents went on the rampage – they have been waiting for years and not days.
See Summerstrand update to water crisis here: http://mype.co.za/new/2012/08/summerstrand-water-crisis-update/
XKCD on a few, a copuple, several etc. : http://xkcd.com/1070/
for humour purposes only.