taps

“I love all that stuff,” the knocks and taps, the banging on walls, the sudden changes of temperature in a room.

“I was putting dishes away later and the manager taps me on the shoulder,” he said.

Only one is working - and if it breaks the school says it will have to close because there would be no clean water for taps and toilets.

Until last month, that is, when firefighters opened taps on hydrants in Pacific Palisades, and there wasn’t any water to douse the flames incinerating houses.

“Refusing to turn off the oil taps means keeping the taps on for sea level rise,” James Kirkham, the chief science adviser at ICCI, said in a statement to The Guardian.