KLVI is on-air right now announcing the different places in SE Texas that are now selling generators, and I immediately thought of you. At least 5 people have already died from carbon monoxide poisoning, and with the amount of people down here using them, there will no doubt be more. Please pray for the ones in the hospital clinging to life -- I heard one of them was a small child.
There have also been several near-misses, but someone found them and called for help in time. All these sick people are being life-flighted to Houston because of lack of medical care here.
Thank you for all your tireless efforts in letting Freepers know the dangers. Because of you, I thought to close the windows on the back of my house while the generator was running.
It just occurred to me I probably should have posted some of these replies on the "Report In" thread that's up. Oh, well.
There was a huge spike of CO poisoning up here in the ice storm of '98. Very sad. And given the odd "out of electricity" circumstance, the usual media campaign isn't effective.