No water, you're F***ed

[jmjkd]

Chemical spill contaminates water for 200,000 people in w Virginia. The national guard had to come in to restore order from fighting and looting. This can easily be you.
What should you do?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/us/west-virginia-contaminated-water/

 

[blindndead]

Dont drink the water.

 

[Palladin]

oops

 

[dlarge]

My well water is just fine, thank you.

 

[Admin]

You lost me at "Public Water"

 

[jmjkd]

Dont drink the water.

LOL!!! I was expecting drink booze and shoot the looters from this crowed...Hahahaha.

 

[Mowat]

People can bitch all they want about the snow in new england but ...

 

[xcom]

I hear the chemical spilled was fluoride...

 

[ccm75]

Beer.

And this sounds about right........."Our emergency rooms have been very busy with individuals unnecessarily concerned and presenting no symptoms," Charleston Area Medical Center said.

 

[blindndead]

LOL!!! I was expecting drink booze and shoot the looters from this crowed...Hahahaha.

Sounds like the plan to me count me in.

 

[duarteus]

Sounds like the plan to me count me in.

 

[Golddiggie]

Beer.

Got a good amount of that on hand.

I also wonder what filter level would remove the chemical from water. I go down to .2 micron with what's under the sink here.

Meanwhile, Jordan said that a dozen water tankers had arrived by Friday morning from Pennsylvania and that West Virginia American Water has bought four truckloads of bottled water from a local supplier.

Have to wonder if that 'water from a local supplier' was pulled out of the tap before, or after, the spill was reported.

 

[rep308]

Don't take a shower! The best way to remove volatile chemicals from water is called steam stripping. Heat the water and pressurize it, expand it through a nozzle. Take a shower, steam strip the chemicals and breath them in.

 

[Sir_Macadoo]

Don't take a shower! The best way to remove volatile chemicals from water is called steam stripping. Heat the water and pressurize it, expand it through a nozzle. Take a shower, steam strip the chemicals and breath them in.

Also known as distillation. The shit they spilt, methylcyclohexanol (many chemicals have many, many names for the same thing based on the naming convention, its also called 4-methylcyclohexane methanol) can be absorbed through your skin. You don't have to breathe it in for it to harm you.

 

[alphawolf]

My 21,000 gallon pool will be just fine through my filtered straw.

 

[P-14]

Let them drink wine (like I would be doing).

 

[mclina]

I hear the chemical spilled was fluoride...

It's the damn commies trying to contaminate our precious bodily fluids again.

 

[ColdDayInHell]

Bottled of GTFO.

 

[jmjkd]

WV is getting rain so I would say 20x20 tarp and 10- 5 gal buckets from HD should hold a person for a while. Buckets & tarps under a run off.
Where's the beer?

 

[FrugalFannie]

My cousin lives right next to that river.She says it smells like licorice. and the water won't put out flames so hopefully no house fires start.

 

[Gator9329]

I think I saw a SCI-FY channel movie that started this way.

 

[Horrible]

I love it. The control freaks that run our govt and media are already trying to exploit this to pass more regulations. Meanwhile the chemical that spilled 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, a chemical used to clean coal is required by the EPA, but nobody seems to be talking about that.

Some greens hope the West Virginia crisis will sway discussions of a proposed rewrite of the law. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) and the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) introduced the Chemical Security Improvement Act (S. 1009) last year, though negotiations have been slow-moving. The bill would give EPA more right to require testing on some dangerous chemicals and evaluate many others.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/west-virginia-water-chemicals-regulations-102125.html