Perhaps our town being without usable city water for 24 hours now is the main reason this who is sick mashup stuck out in the RSS reader. To use, just enter in your zip code, click on your symptom(s) and fill up the colorized pie: runny nose (red), cough (green), fever (yellow), headache (black), muscle ache (orange), stomach ache including diarrhea, nausea and vomit (black).

You can also receive an email when there is an “outbreak” in your area. Just enter your email address. Not sure how reliable this service actually would be since our area must have at least one problem and I was the first person to report anything.

Contaminated water update
Local restaurants have been closed today and school has been called off both today and tomorrow. An automated message on the office phone this morning said that water will not be available for use again for at least 24-48 hours. As you drive into town the following sign has a message I’ve never seen anywhere before:

We went out last night and bought six 5-gallon containers from a water dealer at 40 cents a gallon. We took some water to a couple neighbors. The city is giving away one gallon of water free to each person in the family at the school. Nobody in our family is sick, but I’ve had an upset stomach for a couple days and my wife said she was feeling a bit light-headed today. I don’t think either of our symptoms is due to the water situation but will admit the surrounding conditions are making our family go hmm.

The kids are fine, happy in fact, to miss more school. With all the missed days, they are going to be going to school through July.

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