A pub with no gas: Lithgow residents rely on each other after flooding ruptures gas pipeline

'It seemed like the community was just left to do your best with what you have', says one localGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastResidents of Lithgow are using kettles to prepare water for bathing and restaurants with bottled gas are cooking warm meals for locals, as the regional New South Wales town waits up to a month for a broken gas pipeline to be repaired.Locals in towns including Lithgow, Bathurst, Wallerawang and Oberon woke up on Thursday to find their homes had been cut off from natural gas - the result of a leak in the pipeline between Young and Lithgow. More than 20,000 people are affected.Sign up for Guardian Australia's free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...