I'll admit that, while I didn't have too many pangs of regret about my upcoming move, the circumstances in Sighet this week are wiping away the few that still existed.
As I mentioned, the town is without rail service, and water. It's unknown when either will resume, and I've not been able to get a clear answer on why this is. Granted, I don't know enough about trains to even be able to speculate as to what is causing the delay; is it that the tracks are underwater? Electrical lines blown out, making it impossible to move trains off to a siding or switch directions? Stations inaccessible, so that staff can't get to work? No clue.
With regards to the water, it sounds like a bad situation-comedy script: the flooding broke the pumps to the municipal water system, and there isn't anyone here with the expertise to repair them. So they need to be removed, and sent someplace where they CAN be repaired. But the town has no money to do this, so they mayor went to Bucureşti to petition some government ministry for the money to do the repair ... and this is where most everyone trails off in their explanation, as nobody seems to know the rest of the story. (Apparently the same thing happened here a few years ago: flooding broke the water pumps, they had to be repaired, the town was without water for weeks ... you'd think they would have learnt from the problems the first time around, and installed some system redundancies or drawn up a plan B or something that would have prevented this happening again, but apparently not.)

So the 'solution', at the moment, is to employ the fire department to drive around town all day, every day, filling up giant tanks of water at various locations, and for the townspeople to walk/ride/drive over and fill up pots, bottles, buckets, with non-potable water for bathing and cleaning, and to buy mineral water for drinking. I'm fortunate, I guess, in that there's a tank not terribly far from my apartment, so I'm at least not walking for blocks with my single bucket in order to accumulate enough water to pour over my head for a makeshift, cold shower or to clean my few dishes. It does severely complicate matters in this, my final week in town, though, as it's become orders of magnitude more difficult to clean the apartment in the way I'd intended before departing, and essentially impossible to do things like wash the carpets.
This has also helped me to realise just how little attachment I've forged with this place. Instead of the relative hardship inspiring me to reflect on the things I appreciate about being here, and those appreciable things in turn making the difficulties somewhat more tolerable, the inconveniences are just make me want to be away from here, yesterday. I've spent the past few days wishing I'd moved a month sooner, and had an additional month to familiarise myself with my new location, enjoy the benefits of Târgu Mureş, instead of whiling away my time here, without water and without transportation.
At least it's only a few more days; though I don't even want to think about doing this move if the rail system hasn't been repaired by then.