Have the people in Flint started evacuating to places with safe drinking water?

[lonestarnot]

If I were there I would be in line for a plane ticket.

[drm604]

1. It might be less costly just to buy bottled waer.

Actually, the city should be supplying them with bottled water.

[lonestarnot]

2. What is that supply like?

[drm604]

4. I'm not sure what you mean.

Is there enough bottled water? I would think so. If not, water could be trucked in in tankers. You park the tankers in central locations and let people bring their own containers. That's what was done years ago when I was a kid and there was a flood that put the town's water processing plant out of commission.

[lonestarnot]

5. See second response.

[lonestarnot]

3. You going to bathe, shit, shave, wash your dishes, ass and teeth in bottled water?

[drm604]

6. You address the immediate problem, drinking water, first. You can also brush your teeth with it.

Bringing in bottled water can be done pretty much immediately. Then you decide the next steps.

I don't know if lead is absorbed by bathing or not. And who cares if you shit in it?

[lonestarnot]

7. Yes lead absorbed by biggest organ in the body, it's skin.

Nobody said shit, I said wash your ass.

[Warpy]

10. Why bother? It's cheaper to lie

and poison a generation of children.

People need to see prison time for this.

[yewberry]

8. Not to be disrespectful, but have you never been poor?

A large percentage of the population of Flint lives below poverty level-- like 40%. With that kind of a budget, it might be hard to scrape together money to buy bottled water or a water filter... and you're asking about a plane ticket? And where can they go without first, last and security, or even a job?

Am I missing a moment?

[lonestarnot]

9. A bus ticket then or carpool, or hitchhike.

[winter is coming]

11. Looks like a "no", then. n/t

[lonestarnot]

12. My past financial status is none of his/her business and has nothing to do with drinking lead.