Several businesses have closed and residents have been warned not to flush their toilets except “when necessary” after city officials in Provincetown, Massachusetts, declared a sewer emergency due to thunderstorms earlier this week.
Provincetown businesses are making the best of an ongoing sewer problem that has forced the shutdown of restaurant kitchens and public restrooms in the downtown area.
It was a drizzly day Thursday, and restaurants normally would’ve been packed at lunchtime.
But the town declared a sewer emergency Thursday morning because of backups in the system.
Inside The Mayflower at midday, it was dark and oddly quiet as co-owner Michael Janoplis looked out at tourists walking by.
“It's very weird, standing in an empty restaurant, with a bunch of people out at 1:15 in the afternoon on . what would be a busy August day,” he said. “So it's very surreal.”
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