The Robo-calling started last night but we didn’t get
our call until 7 a.m.
As one of the last to get the green light on using
water that was contaminated by a chemical spill one week ago today, Mr. H. and
I spent some time this morning engaged in the “flushing” process.
In talking with others who’ve already flushed, I
haven’t encountered a single person who says she intends to drink the water –
at least for a while.
While we’re grateful to have this week-long inconvenience behind us, it
does give one pause that the water company has issued a recent warning that
pregnant women should not drink it. Not to mention that it still smells horrid!
One friend told me she doesn’t even want to take a bath
or shampoo her hair in the “stinky stuff.”
I tend to agree.
For the first time in a week, I washed some clothes and
ran my dishwasher. (It was packed!) It’s a great feeling to do normal things
again, but I can’t help but feel a little uneasy. When you think about 7500
gallons of a questionable chemical floating around in your drinking water – the
water you bathe in, cook your food in and use for numerous other things around
your house, it's a little disconcerting to go back to doing those things in
only seven days as if nothing ever happened.
But what can we do?
Water is a vital nutrient! We need it to maintain life. It contains many
of the minerals our bodies need in order to live.
The
human body can last weeks without food, but only days without water. The body
is made up of 50 to 75 per cent water. Water forms the basis of blood,
digestive juices, urine and perspiration, and is contained in lean muscle, fat
and bones.
As the body can’t store water, we need fresh supplies every day to make up for
losses from the lungs, skin, and urine.
Nobody seems to know what the long-term effects of
using the contaminated water may be. And worse – we have no idea how long we
were drinking it, bathing in it and washing our clothes in it before we were
finally told to stop using it for everything except flushing our “johns.”
Everyone is still a little nervous.
And
rightly so. We are at the mercy of those who now insist that the water is safe.
(For everyone except pregnant women, that is).
Is
it?
Time
will tell.
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5 comments:
Go get em tiger! Just wait until the lawyers get going. It will all be uncovered. Hope nobody has serious problems from the water. Good post Peggy.
Wow! Great post. Very well done.
Wonderful! You should be the spokeswoman for all those people. You make it so clear.
This is really an awful thing Peggy. People should be nervous. Many have been killed in other parts of the world by such happenings as this one. I hope the people of WV get it resolved soon and get their lives back to normal.
The company that did that should be held accountable. They could be killing little babies as well as others who use this contaminated water. Go after them! Don't let them walk away scot-free.
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