DUNMORE, Pa. -- Well into the evening on Thursday crews remained along North Blakely Street in Dunmore installing a valve on an 18-inch water main.
To do that, Pennsylvania American Water shut off water to roughly 200 homes and businesses around 1 p.m.
Cutting the workday short for some well-visited locations in the shopping plaza.
"I'm a little upset. We had class, and we had a break, and I was just really hoping for an iced tea," said Jillian Castellani of Blakely.
"I come here a lot, I come here every afternoon for coffee with a bunch of guys, and I didn't think it was closed cause of that. I thought they were just closed," said Sal Pizzo of Throop.
Water company officials say that water main broke a few days ago.
The repair work is expected to take a lengthy amount of time.
The valve is being put in place will allow water to keep flowing to the area while the repairs to the pipe are going on.
Those who lost water almost appears to be divided along the road leading into the plaza. While one side is out, across the street, it's business as usual.
Dempsey's Dry Cleaners remained open. Workers just weren't cleaning or drying.
"We're not doing any production work, but we're still able to wait on customers, people can still pick up their dry cleaning, it hasn't affected us as much as Dunkin Donuts or Burger King and the restaurants and everything like that," said Bobby Dempsey.
The water company restored service early Friday morning to this part of Dunmore.