READING, Pa – For one father and business manager at Screpesi’s Sandwich Shop – it started with an unfortunate facetime from the kids.<\/p>\n
“I had my kids call me last night,\u201d said Mike Ostrowski with Screpesi\u2019s Sandwiches. \u201cThey Facetimed me right outside the window here, and there were a bunch of guys out in the sidewalk.”<\/p>\n
But – as Reading Area Water Authority crews worked to repair a water main break they say impacted 8,000 customers and brought about a two-day boil water advisory along Lancaster Ave – Dad knew what to do.<\/p>\n
“I just told them to get a bunch of pots of water together in case we didn’t have it for tomorrow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
After all – he’s had to do it before.<\/p>\n
“We had a water main break a few months ago right down at the barber academy,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n
RAWA says only one home is without water, and that’s being worked on. As traffic is impacted with shifting lanes – officials say the road is being repaired as well – as the water woes are working their way back to normal.<\/p>\n
“Today, I came in. Water’s running. We have no problems. We just have to boil it, they told us, before we use anything to cook.”<\/p>\n
So RAWA works to plug the break – and the good manager that he is – took a moment for a plug.<\/p>\n
“Come to Screpesi’s. Great sandwiches.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa – For one father and business manager at Screpesi’s Sandwich Shop – it started with an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,736,24450,128,130,129,24449,2217],"class_list":["post-40352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-area-water-authority","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-water-main","tag-water-main-break"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}