California drought (and my respect to Danny D, who is trying to help)

Stormin Mormon · 2014-10-06T14:16:33+00:00

Calif has major risk of forest fires. Hope Danny D and everyone out there is OK. ==================== With Dry Taps and Toilets, California Drought Turns Desperate OCT. 2, 2014 PORTERVILLE, Calif. ? After a nine-hour day working at a citrus packing plant, there is nothing Angelica Gallegos wants more than a hot shower. But she has not had running water for more than five months ? nor is there any tap water in her near future ? because of a punishing and relentless drought in California. residents cannot flush a toilet, fill a drinking glass, wash dishes or clothes, or even rinse their hands without reaching for a bottle or bucket. ?Everything has changed,? said Yolanda Serrato, 54, who has spent most of her life here. Ms. Serrato warned her three children that they should cut down on long showers, but they rebuffed her. ?They kept saying, ?No, no, Mama, you?re just too negative,? Then the sink started to sputter. The sole neighbor with a working well allows them to hook up to his water at night, saving them from having to use buckets to flush toilets in the middle of the night. On a recent morning, there was still a bit of the neighbor?s well water left, trickling out the kitchen faucet, taking over 10 minutes to fill two three-quart pots. Because the land is unincorporated, it is not part of a municipal water system, and connecting to one would be prohibitively expensive. The Gallegos family?s drinking water comes only from bottles, mostly received through donations but some times bought at the gas station. For bathing, doing dishes and flushing toilets, the family relies on buckets filled with water from a tank set in the front lawn, which Mr. Gallegos replenishes every other day at the county fire station. Often, the water runs out before he returns home from his job as a mechanic, forcing Ms. Gallegos to wait for hours before she can clean. The family has spent hundreds of dollars to wash their clothes at the laundromat and on paper goods to avoid washing...

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Stormin Mormon 11 years ago

That's a foolish way to keep your water cistern full. I mean, why would you take red containers to the gas station and fill with water? Seems like you'd use natural color 5 gal jugs. Or the clear ones.

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Danny D. 11 years ago

Stormin Mormon wrote, on Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:16:30 -0400:

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