Hopefully no one here is affected by this.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Federal+disaster+declared+Virginia+chemical+spill+100000/9371596/story.html (http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Federal+disaster+declared+Virginia+chemical+spill+100000/9371596/story.html)
It's bad.
It's bubbling up on TV now. (no pun intended)
At least 100k without water in something like six counties. The chem spill has made the water unfit to drink or bathe with. It's only suitable for flushing the toilet and cannot be boiled clean.
A water distribution facility has been set up, but has already run out of water. It's hoped it will have more this afternoon.
good thing they have all that whiskey!
Watching the footage of the emergency water supply being delivered by tanker trucks in not encouraging. There doesn't seem to be any attempt to prevent cross contamination at all. In just a 30 second spot, I was things such as garden hoses hooked up to the tanks just left lying in the mud and operators are holding their dirty gloved thumbs over the hoses while they are filling up jugs for people.