Great..I get out of the shower and the first thing I hear is a "boil water alert"!

[TZ]

Apparantly there was a huge water main break in the county and many people don't have much water..I do but I heard that even if you do it could be contaminated..thus the boil water alert....
I know its unlikely I could get sick from the shower but still..*sigh* fun way to start the week...

[madinmaryland]

1. What happened? I've been gorn for a few days.

Nothing wrong here in HoCo.

[TZ]

2. Major water main break in the Derwood area

Here at work we are having BIG issues too..They got a second line to bring in water but our labs are in not so good shape at the moment..with cooling systems and the needed water for experiments.
We were told that we might want to stay out of the labs for awhile as they are very warm temperature wise right now..although last update I heard that might have things under control in the next hour.

[CBHagman]

3. Here's the update on the Full Monty County.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061600548.html?hpid=topnews

The break in a 36-inch main near Lake Bernard Frank south of Muncaster Mill Road, occurred last night around 9. But crews did not locate the problem until near dawn today because the pipe is in an isolated, forested section of the Meadowside Nature Center.

The affected area is centered around the towns of Gaithersburg, Germantown, Olney and Burtonsville, a heavily populated area where businesses and residents faced perhaps a full day of restricted water supply and at least three days of boiling any water used for human consumption, said Riggins. But the water agency received calls and e-mails from customers in Wheaton and Silver Spring as well, and as a result extended the water advisory to all customers outside the Beltway.

There's a map and more info at the link.

[CreekDog]

5. Turtlensue lives in Derwood? OMG!

:rofl:

[kentauros]

8. That was my first thought.

:rofl:

That and the very idea that there is a town/city named "Derwood".

[TZ]

9. I do NOT live in Derwood Creek Chicken!

Thats just where the water main break was!
For your information I live in Germantown..Guten tag!:P

[CreekDog]

10. OKAY OKAY!

Greater Derwood then. :rofl: :hide:

[Darth_Kitten]

4. It's just that the sludge in pipes gets loosened with a water break.....

Don't drink it, or do laundry, but you should be fine.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Well, you can't drink the water in China, and I took showers in China

without any ill effects...so you're probably okay unless there's sulfuric acid in the water or something, in which case you would have noticed by now. :-)

[NJmaverick]

7. Good luck with that, you should be OK with the shower

the whole boil water thing, is usually more precautionary, rather than a real threat.

[Bucky]

11. Was it a cold shower?

I hope you learned a valuable lesson. Always have your home's water heater set to 312 degrees, just to be safe.

[hellbound-liberal]

12. Hey turtlensue! I used to live in Germantown, too!

On the corner of Crystal Rock and Father Hurley Blvd. Hope you are enjoying life there. We moved to Virginia two years ago and still miss living in a blue state.:(

[TZ]

13. I drive by there all the time

and yeah, I generally enjoy living here...the occasionaly water emergency, and power outage from severe thunderstorms aside...