This, is why you prepare for the unexpected:

[Dave]

My wife saw FB posts from there that people were already begging for aid as they had no food, clean water or medicines in their house. I guess a large area there has sewage backed into the water supply.

[hatidua]

My wife saw FB posts from there that people were already begging for aid as they had no food, clean water or medicines in their house.

Woe be unto the person who had things squared away in terms of spare water/food and the overwhelmed neighbors find out about their provisions...

[Irving]

Woe be unto the person who had things squared away in terms of spare water/food and the overwhelmed neighbors find out about their provisions...

This just in, all pot-lucks have been cancelled in Lyons, CO this weekend.

[Great-Kazoo]

My wife saw FB posts from there that people were already begging for aid as they had no food, clean water or medicines in their house. I guess a large area there has sewage backed into the water supply.

Yep, they suggest a 3 min boil then cool. hahha, they have no power, gas turned off. OOPS. I heard a lady from "Lyons estates" on michael brown saying "
we have no power, no phone etc" SO WHAT IS SHE DOING?? Sitting on HOLD, on her cell waiting to get through to a radio talk show, PRIORITIES. Oh yeah can you put me through first, my battery is dying