As I’m sure many of you are aware, the City of Decatur used its “Code Red” notification system this morning to announce that the reason water pressure was low or non-existent this morning was due to a “power outage at a pumping station”.

But here’s the thing…by the time we got the message, full water pressure had been restored.

Don’t get me wrong, I really like this notification system but perhaps in a non-emergency situation they could call it something other than “Code Red”. I still get that initial lump in my stomach when I see that phone number with so many 9s and 1s and hear the words “code red”.

UPDATE: 11Alive has details about why the water outage occurred.