There is coliform in my water. COLIFORM. Thank you, Mississippi rural water association. Who took a DUMP in the well THIS time?!?!
These are not your average jelly beans, folks.
The boil alert apparently was posted last Friday - but living here you tend to hear about these things 3 days too late, and from your neighbor, who heard from another neighbor, who heard from a friend. Turned out, the rumor was true, but being 4 months pregnant, this did make this hormonal mama HAPPY.
After a wild goose chase, I was finally able to speak to someone at the MS Health Dept Water Division. Our water association servicing my area does not have the funding to send out a "message" to their users about BOIL ALERTS, so word-of-mouth is apparently common around here.
Where I come from, you either got a call, and email, or a little flier tucked into your door so that you'd know immediately. This happened for us last Friday. So we're pretty much SCREWED. Look out - hepatitis, giardiasis, and dysentery.
No brushing teeth, no ice (i can do without anyway, but Joe...not a chance), no water in J's oatmeal (now that he's had 3 bowls since Friday, so that doesn't matter), no rinsing fruit and veges (oops...) and no bathing with open sores (we're ok too....). Oh yeah, and wash your dishes with BLEACH (that'll taste good.)
Wish us luck.....
