Kathy said around evening on September 30, 2007

So, the City of West Palm Beach has issued a boil water order for the entire city.  This isn’t the first time the city has had a boil order but since we’ve owned a home here, weve only experienced it once or twice due to hurricanes and even then it was just a precaution.  This time however it is for an entirely other and totally repugnant (to steal a vocab word from Joelle) reason.  From the article on the Palm Beach Post website:

Seven samples taken Wednesday, including sites in the Villages and Land of the Presidents neighborhoods, had traces of total coliform, fecal coliform and E. Coli.

If I wasn’t totally germophobe before, I am now.  I feel like there is E. Coli bacteria lurking everywhere now and have spent the last 24 hours cleaning like an insane person.  My neuroses has been taken to a whole new level. I want to barf.  And the worst part for me is the showering.  I can live without tap water for the most part. We get water delivery here in the 5 gallon dispenser fashion, so there is no shortage of bottled water in this house.  And though they say the water is safe for showering, I have a very hard time washing myself and my kid with E.Coli and Feces contaminated water.  “Ew” just doesn’t cover it.  Time to go back to Georgia.