Posted on 01/09/2014 8:00:01 AM PST by Zakeet
The nation may be slowly thawing from its deep freeze "polar vortex", but that is no comfort for tens of thousands of Ohians, whose water supply has literally frozen in the past day after the valves at the Avon Lake Municipal Utility plant were planted in ice, dramatically lowering the supply of water. NBC reports that "tens of thousands of customers in several counties in Ohio are facing a dramatic water shortage after the intake valves at a key plant that draws water from Lake Erie apparently froze amid the wild winter weather." As a result, the mayor of Avon had a modest proposal as a response to the caticestrophy: don't flush your toilets. At least there is toilet paper, which is more than Venezuela, and its 480% returning in 2013 stock market can say.
From NBC:
Officials at Avon Lake Municipal Utilities west of Cleveland said Wednesday that the valves at the plant are caked in ice. Although they are still able to draw water, the rate is below typical demands — which means several surrounding cities could be hit by a veritable drought.In a message on the city of Avon's official website, officials called on residents to hold off on doing anything that uses a lot of water.
Avon Mayor Bryan Jensen sent out an emergency messages to locals asking them to hold off on laundry, baths and showers, according to Cleveland.com.
"We even ask people to refrain from flushing toilets as often as they used to until this can be resolved," Jensen said.
The plant website said it provides water to over 200,000 people living in a 680-square-mile area made up of seven counties — including Lorain, Cuyahoga, Medina, Erie, Huron, Ashland and Wayne.
And in other polar vortex news, the Niagara Falls has frozen.
Note: Several pictures from Reuters of the dramatic Global Warming are contained in the original article.
Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch...
Ohio Ping
Officials at Avon Lake Municipal Utilities west of Cleveland said Wednesday that the valves at the plant are caked in ice.
Dear Ohioans: Every time you use the toilet, think of Al Gore. He has the answer.
picture to large to post,,,hmmm
Bttt
I was going to ping you to this thread as soon as I got off the phone to the drug store to get a script refilled. I stayed on “Hold” for 15 minutes. I suppose there are so many sick people right now, getting the drug dept. to answer takes a long time.
At any rate, water can stop functioning from the utility company for any number of reasons. After Ike, one of the water plants in my town shut down due to the machinery room flooding from the water Ike brought down. I’m sorry most people do not keep water stored all the time. Here, when a hurricane is coming through, people rush to the store to buy all the bottled water there until there is no more. If my water goes off at any time for any reason, I will still have plenty of good water and using my camp showers I fill with water, I have running water at the kitchen sink, at both bathroom sinks and in the shower. I have running water when there is no running water.
Now that was some funny sh*#.
ROTFLMAO
Thanks for tweeking my funnybone this morning.
Damn.
Talk about sh*# for brains.
A classic bit.
Niagara Falls has not “frozen”. Water has frozen at the falls, as it does many times. It is very pretty, but the water is still flowing over the falls, as it always does.
They probably should have put their water intakes a bit lower in the lake.
Technically, that was a triple-dog-dare by Schwartz...who created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple-dare and going right for the throat!
Proof that horse-drawn carriages cause global warming. Horse farts are greenhouse gases.
On a more practical note, my rain barrel is frozen! I managed to get 3 gallons out of a 65 gallon tank. Ideas to prevent?
The only thing that comes to mind is wrapping in in black weed block to get it to assorb more of the suns heat.
Reminds me of the fish I caught one time. I took a picture of it and the picture weighed 7 pounds.
Practice for when we become an official 3rd world country
Time to dig a trench, buy some lime and poop outdoors.
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“Niagara Falls is frozen, yet the dogma of St. Algore says the earth has a fever and we must repent from our carbon sins. I am reminded of Voltaire’s Candide where the Grand Inquisitor assures the crowds that to prevent earthquakes more heretics must be burned.”
I am so glad you cited that very apt Voltaire reference! I love it!
BING!
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