The Flint River is causing the problem because the water is corrosive and wasn’t treated properly. Had the water been treated, the pipes likely would not have been a problem.

Michigan’s FOIA law explicitly exempts the governor and state legislature. Dems have been pushing for this exemption to be removed from the law, but they are out of power at the moment (read: since 2010).

I can tell you, as a mom of 8 children that includes a newborn and two toddlers... It’s a constant panic. Our newborn has to skip regular baths as his body is too small. Our children 6 year old son came home saying how thirsty he was because the school has trash bags over the fountains and he had nothing to drink…

And I really wonder what justification they have for redacting everything.

How many gallons of nail polish do I get for $114?

How many gallons of nail polish do I get for $114?

This might get buried, but I wanted to share it because I thought it was interesting.

Yeah, blacking out the ENTIRE EMAIL is certainly going to make this better for them. It has to be so bad for them to have done this. Unimaginably bad. I can’t wait to see what they did.

The GOP’s pennywise dollar-foolish, ignore all environmental standards for poor neighborhood shell game tricks can ALWAYS get worse.

is this a page number? did they redact a page number?

Does no one drink bloody Mary’s to get day drunk anymore? The food to alcohol ratio is way off. WAY OFF.

I don’t know. How could I be in the bathroom at a Metric concert and in a hammock simultaneously?

Can you and the ‘Darwin Award’ folks on every news story about a senseless death just kind of.. fade away or something?

In one of the final stages of hypothermia, the body releases blood from the organs back into the extremities. Because this blood is warmer, it can make the person momentarily feel too warm and cause them to remove layers of clothing. It’s called “paradoxical undressing”.

There was a case a couple of years ago in northern MN on a similarly frigid night where college kids dropped off a friend at her house, then drove away before watching to make sure she got in the door. She apparently dropped her keys in the snow, couldn’t find them or get in, and was found the next morning on her…

Some hypothermia victims start to feel overheated as the effects of the cold progress.

For all the non-Americans, that would be -21 Celsius and -33 with the windchill. That’s fucking cold.

When I lived in Wisconsin, there was this level of woodsy-toughness I had never experienced before in the big city. I also noticed that there was far-less of a community of accountability set up. CONSTANTLY, and I mean without fail, every drinking holiday, someone ends up dead in the Milwaukee river, all because no…

There’s a really awful interaction between cold weather and alcohol that makes people not realize they’re in danger until far too late. There are even cases of people being dressed fine for conditions, but undressing because they felt warm, and then freezing to death.

PSA for the young ‘uns out there: If you lose sight…