No timeline for residents to return to soaked Tampa condos after pipe burst Jennifer Holton reports TAMPA, Fla. - Element resident Alex Loura has spent the last five days living in a Tampa hotel after a water main break in his downtown apartment left him and hundreds of others displaced. "It was just all water coming down, coming through. So I can’t imagine this being a couple-day thing. This is probably going to be a week to two weeks, if that," he said. "I’ve been trying to figure out what I’m going to do in terms of things for work, daily life, buying a bunch of items."