Kias
Senior Member
If this hasn't hit the national media, it's about to. There's nothing but local news going right now, nonstop since this morning when we all woke up.
Toledo is currently under a "Do Not Drink" the water order. Earlier this morning it also included a do not bath/shower/touch order, but that has since been rescinded. This affects about 500,000 people. Water samples have been sent to three separate labs for testing. Results are slowly coming in. The last should be completed by tomorrow morning. Then they'll analyze the results and figure out the next move.
People were driving up to four hours to buy water this morning. A state of emergency has been declared in Lucas county. (That's where Toledo is.) The National Guard has been called into action, and they'll be setting up water distribution sites. Lots of water started showing up this evening for disbursement. They're almost out of that. All stores are out, but then back in stock, then out, it's sporadic. Kroger has 1.4 million bottles of water they're re-routing from other stores around the country and they're currently headed here. (Hint: Buy stock. Buy it NOW! They're about to have a record profit month!) Federal assistance has not been requested at this time, though the mayor is in contact with the liason. If it is, I may be deployed. I'm on a Federal Disaster Medical Assistant Team that gets deployed to disaster areas (and other things, like the presidential inauguration) I am a logistics coordinator, so I'd probably be rather busy. HA! We have literally a gabazillion gallons of bottled water just waiting to go.
There's been some price gouging going on, up to 20 bucks for a case of water has been reported. They're getting smashed as soon as they get reported. Plus they'll have to answer to the State Attorney General in a week or two.
The problem is there's a high level of microcystis, a toxin that is released by algal blooms. There's huge amounts of algae at the water intake on Lake Erie where Toledo gets their water. This is caused by pesticide runoffs from the farmers out in my neck of the woods, and from Detroit's sewer runoff into the Detroit river every time there's a heavy rain, in addition to the perfect weather for algae growth we've been having lately, it's the perfect storm. I have a feeling the lobbyists keeping the pesticides running into the rivers are not going to be so effective after this blows over...
My family is fine being some 40 miles west of Toledo and with well water. My daughter practically lives downtown, but she's got water. We've made sure all of our friends and family that have been affected have water. My wife stood in a long line at a Dollar General store this morning before they opened to get water. This, after she got off of work from the ER she worked at all night, to buy $150 worth of water to take to the Urgent Care where she's the Practice Manager. She'll stop there in the morning, as she's at the ER all night tonight, and check the water level. If they need more, she'll call me and I'll fill up the 6 carboys and 3 fermenters I have full of water, throw them in the back of the truck, and they'll have about 75 gallons of water.
That's all I know. Fun Fun stuff! The mayor said this might be a world wide awakening as to what we're doing to our environment.
Lake Erie from the ground in Toledo
Lake Erie from space
Toledo is currently under a "Do Not Drink" the water order. Earlier this morning it also included a do not bath/shower/touch order, but that has since been rescinded. This affects about 500,000 people. Water samples have been sent to three separate labs for testing. Results are slowly coming in. The last should be completed by tomorrow morning. Then they'll analyze the results and figure out the next move.
People were driving up to four hours to buy water this morning. A state of emergency has been declared in Lucas county. (That's where Toledo is.) The National Guard has been called into action, and they'll be setting up water distribution sites. Lots of water started showing up this evening for disbursement. They're almost out of that. All stores are out, but then back in stock, then out, it's sporadic. Kroger has 1.4 million bottles of water they're re-routing from other stores around the country and they're currently headed here. (Hint: Buy stock. Buy it NOW! They're about to have a record profit month!) Federal assistance has not been requested at this time, though the mayor is in contact with the liason. If it is, I may be deployed. I'm on a Federal Disaster Medical Assistant Team that gets deployed to disaster areas (and other things, like the presidential inauguration) I am a logistics coordinator, so I'd probably be rather busy. HA! We have literally a gabazillion gallons of bottled water just waiting to go.
There's been some price gouging going on, up to 20 bucks for a case of water has been reported. They're getting smashed as soon as they get reported. Plus they'll have to answer to the State Attorney General in a week or two.
The problem is there's a high level of microcystis, a toxin that is released by algal blooms. There's huge amounts of algae at the water intake on Lake Erie where Toledo gets their water. This is caused by pesticide runoffs from the farmers out in my neck of the woods, and from Detroit's sewer runoff into the Detroit river every time there's a heavy rain, in addition to the perfect weather for algae growth we've been having lately, it's the perfect storm. I have a feeling the lobbyists keeping the pesticides running into the rivers are not going to be so effective after this blows over...
My family is fine being some 40 miles west of Toledo and with well water. My daughter practically lives downtown, but she's got water. We've made sure all of our friends and family that have been affected have water. My wife stood in a long line at a Dollar General store this morning before they opened to get water. This, after she got off of work from the ER she worked at all night, to buy $150 worth of water to take to the Urgent Care where she's the Practice Manager. She'll stop there in the morning, as she's at the ER all night tonight, and check the water level. If they need more, she'll call me and I'll fill up the 6 carboys and 3 fermenters I have full of water, throw them in the back of the truck, and they'll have about 75 gallons of water.
That's all I know. Fun Fun stuff! The mayor said this might be a world wide awakening as to what we're doing to our environment.
Lake Erie from the ground in Toledo
Lake Erie from space
