Posted on 12/17/2011 4:26:35 PM PST by mandaladon
“These people are going to end up rioting about this,” says Sheila Tyson, a community activist in Jefferson County, Ala. “If they let this stuff happen they are going to get the biggest riot the South has ever seen . . . I can see it coming.”
That’s a pretty serious prediction. What could possibly start a riot that big?
She’s talking about the likelihood of Jefferson County increasing its water and sewage bill rates.
Oh. Is it really all that bad?
“If the sewer bill gets higher, my light might get cut off and if I try to catch up the light, my water might get cut off. So we’re in between. We can’t make it like this,” says Tammy Lucas, a Birmingham resident who has been affected by a “financial and political scandal that has brought one of the most deprived communities in America’s south to the point of what some local people believe is collapse,” reports the BBC.
Lucas’ monthly water and sewage rate has managed to quadruple in the past 15 years. Currently, her bill is $150 a month, which she pays for by using her $600 social security check.
“We need to keep the water running because we’re women,” she says. “We need to take baths. I try to pay the sewer bill and the water bill together and then what little I got left I try to put on my lights. I got to have lights.”
One of her Birmingham neighbors, who wished to remain anonymous, has already decided between lights and water: His home now has a porta-potty next to it. Why?
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
They are writing about Jefferson County (Birmingham). Obama voters are about 85%.
They are writing about Jefferson County (Birmingham). Obama voters are about 85%.
What part of “necessarily skyrocket” didn’t these people understand?
Hey, they STILL vote Democrat every general election and for the black Democrat in the primaries.
What do they expect?
***We need to keep the water running because we’re women,” she says. “We need to take baths.***
I have a book published in the 1880s. In the chapter “The Bath” it states a woman can take a bath, and...”only one quart of water is necessary.”
***...has already decided between lights and water: His home now has a porta-potty next to it. Why?**
Most bills automaticly charge your water bill for sewer even though you are on septic or a “porta-potty.
Hi!
Just visiting. Head back DnUnDa right after the first of the year. The drillers here had to go through several hundred feet of basalt rock before hitting gravel where the drillers knew they were close to hitting water. They it water around 260ft and then pulled the drill head back to 240. We pump 15gpm with a static pressure of 90ft. It took three hours to pump it down to 140ft static. It flows fast from glacial water up in the Olympics. Cold like 45deg out the tap. Sweet stuff. I love going up to Darwin. Best thunder storms evah!
Thanks for the Hanukkah greeting.
R/Janey
Sorry to learn that.
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