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Ok, so, this past weekend, I was "violently" ill. I thought it was a bad case of the flu...coming on...coming on, until culminating on Saturday.
"Violently" ill is a perfect description. Shaking hard, uncontrollable, couldn't stray 10 feet from the bathroom for more than 30 min...couldn't keep anything down, felt I was in major threat to become dehydrated...so, began forcing "water" down just to keep hydrated.
Turns out, we get a notice on my door one week later: "Boil your water....failure to do so will result in severe intestinal illness".
I go to ksl.com, find a story on there that "Saratoga Springs Water Supply Contaminated" ...read through the comments, and apparently, it is c-coli. Nasty nasty stuff.
I go to the Saratoga Springs City website...and they only have a little tiny blurb. I go to the "culinary water" tab, and it says they "test the water 6 times per month".
Does that seem odd to anyone? 6 times per month? When?....at 11:59pm on the 31st? c-coli has an incubation period of a week. In the comments section of the news article...there had been people sick 3 weeks ago. Little kids put into Primary Childrens hospital, adults in the ICU....terrible stuff. So, a one week incubation period, plus 3 weeks of illness = 1 month in our water.
If you're testing it 6 times a month...HOW DOES THAT GET THROUGH???!!! They test the pool at the rec center several times a DAY! Should you test the water we DRINK more than 6 times a month?
I am so PISSED. I have NEVER been sick like that in my life. I thought I had been poisoned. Well...I guess I had.
This is unacceptable in my accounts. What can be done? Whoever is in charge of our water needs to be mowing lawns for the rec department. This could have been a LOT worse. I guess if I was a terrorist...just poison the water and you take out a whole city...well, at least my city. Other cities probably test their water a lot more. So mad. Now...my daughter is sick. Lovely.
"Violently" ill is a perfect description. Shaking hard, uncontrollable, couldn't stray 10 feet from the bathroom for more than 30 min...couldn't keep anything down, felt I was in major threat to become dehydrated...so, began forcing "water" down just to keep hydrated.
Turns out, we get a notice on my door one week later: "Boil your water....failure to do so will result in severe intestinal illness".
I go to ksl.com, find a story on there that "Saratoga Springs Water Supply Contaminated" ...read through the comments, and apparently, it is c-coli. Nasty nasty stuff.
I go to the Saratoga Springs City website...and they only have a little tiny blurb. I go to the "culinary water" tab, and it says they "test the water 6 times per month".
Does that seem odd to anyone? 6 times per month? When?....at 11:59pm on the 31st? c-coli has an incubation period of a week. In the comments section of the news article...there had been people sick 3 weeks ago. Little kids put into Primary Childrens hospital, adults in the ICU....terrible stuff. So, a one week incubation period, plus 3 weeks of illness = 1 month in our water.
If you're testing it 6 times a month...HOW DOES THAT GET THROUGH???!!! They test the pool at the rec center several times a DAY! Should you test the water we DRINK more than 6 times a month?
I am so PISSED. I have NEVER been sick like that in my life. I thought I had been poisoned. Well...I guess I had.
This is unacceptable in my accounts. What can be done? Whoever is in charge of our water needs to be mowing lawns for the rec department. This could have been a LOT worse. I guess if I was a terrorist...just poison the water and you take out a whole city...well, at least my city. Other cities probably test their water a lot more. So mad. Now...my daughter is sick. Lovely.
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