No one should ever have to say “We need to get a blow torch to see if our water catches fire.”

by Runner Susan on September 5, 2010

in Good Guys

It’s a busy day, lets get down to business:

  • I didn’t pick up my tri packet yesterday and NO PACKET PICK UP ON RACE DAY means NO PACKET PICK UP ON RACE DAY.
  • However, I ran a very comfortable 6.27 miles this morning. My plan was for 5 but it felt good to run in the cooler temps so I kept going.
  • Yesterday my friend, Zoe, came over and we played with my water. Of course, it foamed like a rabid dog, but for the first time it had some awful stinky “melting barbie” vapors coming off of it. It’s been stinking up the place for a while now, but this is the first time I could actually see the vapors. Nice.
  • Today, I tried to light it on fire. No fire, but plastic. My water turned into plastic. I guess this explains stinky “melting barbie” vapors. See for yourselves. I can’t wait to see what the tests say about this batch. And yes, I know, I should have used a stick – I was just caught in the moment and wanted to feel the plastic.


Well Water – Vaporizing Edition from Runner Susan on Vimeo.

Making Plastic with Well Water from Runner Susan on Vimeo.

Now, I’m off to Target to pick up a few things.


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{ 10 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Jackie September 5, 2010 at 1:10 pm

Hey Susan, I need some “baggies.” Could you whip some up for me? All joking aside, what a nightmare! If the drillers, or the person you purchased the land from had any character or integrity, they would whatever it takes to correct the problem.

2 Zoe G Nance September 5, 2010 at 4:07 pm

I love Target, I wanna go,

I’m real sorry about your “No race day Packet P/U” We can do a tri this week if you want.

3 Zoe G Nance September 5, 2010 at 4:09 pm

P.S.

I wish you would stop watering your yard with that stuff. Can you switch to city water?

4 Sharon Wilson September 6, 2010 at 9:31 pm

I posted on Daily Kos http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/6/899634/-When-your-water-makes-plastic,-its-been-fracked
I sent to the EPA.
I tweeted.
I Facebooked.
I’m not done yet.

I sick of this bullshit!

5 Peggy September 6, 2010 at 10:54 pm

How many other people out there have foamy well water and are watering their lawns with it without a second thought? Or filling their swimming pools? Or filling their stock tanks and watering their goats, horses and cattle with it?

6 Ewe the Dewd September 7, 2010 at 2:01 am

At least you can use the blow torch to roast marshmallows once you’re done making Barbies. You need to sell up and move Susan!

7 Anne September 7, 2010 at 8:38 am

I’m with Peggy – why isn’t everyone’s lawns turning brown yet and livestock keeling over yet? Sounds like it’s just a matter of time. Where’s that class-action lawsuit?!

8 Peggy September 7, 2010 at 1:22 pm

There have been some significant health problems with animals in our area. People, too. But how do you prove a connection, for example, between a brain tumor and a swimming pool?

As far as the soil goes, that takes time. The earth does a lot to heal itself, but once you change the salinity enough, it becomes a moonscape.

I, for one, spent my Labor Day shampooing my rugs. Susan really should quit playing with plastic.

9 Zoe G Nance September 7, 2010 at 6:30 pm

I’m happy to give anybody a tour of our bubbly culverts.

This is not an isolated situation, it’s just the isolated instance where someone had the gun-ho to be proactive and check the water.

Our bubbly culverts are spreading. It was isolated and now is in front of 4 different lots.

10 ihatetoast September 11, 2010 at 8:14 am

now that a san fran neighbourhood blew up, are people listening or are you taking to wearing flame retardant jammies 24/7?

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