The state park I frequently ride through used to have an outdoor drinking fountain at the beach house, which was convenient for me. A couple years ago, it was removed. No idea why. Not a big problem, because the park office just down the road installed a bottle filling station with chilled, filtered water, so I just stopped there instead of the beach house.
Well, yesterday we had an intense "super-cell" thunderstorm go through, which took out power for thousands of people, including the state park. They had a generator running at the park office, but the bottle filling station wasn't hooked up, so no chilled, filtered water for me. But while I was there, I asked if the bathroom sink water at the beach house was potable, which I hadn't tried because I wondered if the drinking fountain had been disconnected because of contamination issues. No, the ranger told me, it was because it had been a recurrent target of vandalism and they got tired of fixing it. That's why we can't have nice things.
