Fresh water price gouging in Bound Brook NJ

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My mother lives in Somerset, NJ. It's next to Bound Brook. You might of heard about this area in the news. It flooded badly there from Floyd. Their water supply was contaminated. They are told to drink only bottled water. They are also told not to even use the water for washing of dishes or bodies. Still. This included anyone receiving water from Elizabeth water co., Libery water co, and Edison water co. A very large area of NJ.

One Gallon bottles of water that went for .59c each at the Supermarkets before Floyd are now going for $1.09. It's even higher at the MiniMarts. My mother complained bitterly about it to me on the phone today. She feels the government should intercede. She still.. doesn't...get...it.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), September 20, 1999

Answers

........Got Katadyn?

-- Billy-Boy (Rakkasn@Yahoo.com), September 20, 1999.

No, but i got a "Big Berkey" and 450 gallons of fresh water in the basement... Will that do? ;^)

-- Dennis (djolson@pressenter.com), September 20, 1999.

Hold on there,She still might change her mind.

-- Chris (griffen@globalnet.co.uk), September 20, 1999.

If prices are high, there will be more incentive for private parties to ship water into the area. When they do, water will be plentiful, and the price will go down. This is orders of magnitude cheaper and more efficient than arbitrary price-controls, or water supplied at taxpayer expense. Same goes for any commodity in short supply, for any reason. There is no such thing as "price gouging" - there is only TAX gouging!

Liberty

-- Liberty (liberty@theready.now), September 20, 1999.


Didn't prepare for a winter storm, did she?

Hmmmn - looking at the government for "protection" again, eh?

Repeat for another hundred million citizens.......

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), September 20, 1999.



FWIW, I heard a guy on local radio from Elizabethtown water today saying it may be another week before things are back to "normal."

Also, the .gov, FEMA I believe, is sending water tanker trucks to the area. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), September 20, 1999.


Hmm, FEMA sending water trucks? Not in NC! On the local news tonight they were begging for people to donate bottled water in SMALL bottles--because the shelters don't have any cups for people to drink from.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), September 20, 1999.

Kritter, My mother lives in Somerville, a few miles form yours. She refuses to contemplate the severity of Y2k. Of course, neither will any of my seven brothers and sisters, for that matter. Now, what would have happened to ANY of these people had they had say.....two weeks of supplies? Hmmmmmm? They could have sat back and laughed. They could have helped neighbors.

While I 'empathize' with the plight of those caught unprepared, I have NOT the slightest degree of sympathy

People are warned and they are responsible for their decisions and the actions that they take as a result of those decisions.

I do not feel more badly because the affected people are 'related' to me. THEY had a BIGGER benefit in a better warning.

-- Paul milne (fedinfo@halifax.com), September 20, 1999.


Old Git,

I'm not 100% sure that it is FEMA, but someone is sending water in.

Paul,

Yup, the area isn't exactly one of the garden spots in the "garden state." Anything east of I-287 is really just a suburb of NYC. Glad I'm here, far away, in the "country" on high-ground! Hopefully far enough from another problem, Trenton! <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), September 20, 1999.


Oops, Paul, answered the wrong thread. Directed at your comments here:

Confirmation from anyone in NJ. DWGI extremists.

Em-bare-assed... <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), September 20, 1999.



I don't know Sys, there are buildings in Trenton right now that don't have electric or running water, and people live in them anyhow. They might not even notice..?

Paul, it took me an hour from rt 18 to get to her house the other day, every road was closed off in some fashion, so it's not like they can even go to another town to get what they need. I'm wondering how Rutgers U. is handling the situation, considering the large student population on campus.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), September 20, 1999.


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