Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: SuziQ; 2Jedismom

There was another fire yesterday, this time we could see it for miles... We were driving home from Arlington, and saw a hugh billowing cloud of smoke to the north. I explained to Karateboy what it was and he thought it was pretty close. We kept driving and seemed to never reach it. Turns out, it was in Grapevine, just north of DFW airport, right next to the building where KLTY radio station is located.


572 posted on 01/18/2006 7:16:51 AM PST by Peanut Gallery
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 569 | View Replies ]


To: Peanut Gallery; SuziQ; HairOfTheDog; Lil'freeper; Overtaxed; RosieCotton; All
You know, I've had trouble with my city water for a long time...it would be absolutely brown, you know? And then I'd get these notices in the mail about how it failed standards?

So we started drinking bottled water, making coffee with it and such, but I still made ice cubes out of tap water. (Or rather Matthew did...I pay him 25 cents per 3 ice trays.)

Until the day I turned on the tap in the tub and *black* water poured out. Black as night. You could scoop the black up off the bottom of the tub. Then I started making ice with (Walmart) bottled water too.

Well, then Steve got me a water crock from Christmas and I started buying our water from this place called "Water on the Run"...a water treatment and filtering store. I get the water for 27 cents a gallon there, in my own 5 gallon bottles.

Ok...so Matthew started making ice and it started forming "Ice Spikes"! Freaked me out at first but then I found that this isn't that unusual with "bottled" water...

Ice Spikes

I'm basically assured that I'm getting what I'm paying for from the water filtering store...the ice wouldn't behave this way if they were just selling me plain tap water.

My Walmart bottled water *never* formed ice spikes...
615 posted on 01/18/2006 8:55:59 AM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 572 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson