If you visit North Carolina...

[phrodeau]

You had better pack a CO detector.

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/11/police_gas_in_nc_motel_where_boy_2_others_died/singleton/

BOONE, N.C. (AP) — Carbon monoxide poisoning is likely to blame for the recent death of an 11-year-old boy in a motel room and the deaths of a couple found inside the same motel room nearly two months ago, police said.

Emergency responders found carbon monoxide in the room where Jeffrey Williams of Rock Hill, S.C., died Saturday, Boone police said in a news release Monday. Investigators said a preliminary autopsy found the boy died of asphyxia, which happens when toxic gases cut off oxygen to the body. State medical examiners will conduct toxicology tests on samples taken from the boy’s body.

Jeffrey’s 49-year-old mother, Jeannie Williams, was rushed to a hospital and survived.

A Longview, Wash., couple was found dead in the same motel room April 16. New toxicology results show 73-year-old Daryl Dean Jenkins and 72-year-old Shirley Mae Jenkins died of carbon monoxide poisoning, police said. A regional pathologist’s autopsies on the couple were inconclusive, police said.

North Carolina law requires CO detectors in homes, but not in hotels.

They need to post "enter at your own risk" signs at the borders.

 

[Busybody]

Thx

Will do

 

[WeedSmoke420]

thanks for sharing

 

[phrodeau]

Don't go in the water.

http://www.local8now.com/content/ne...a-after-North-Carolina-rafting-383995311.html

A teenage woman from Ohio died from a brain-eating amoeba contracted at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte. They are operating as if nothing happened.

 

[Christobal]

Here is an honest question. Is there anything in your life you don't have to find the bad side of? Tell me your good things. Really, I would like to know. This is not a trap.

 

[sr71plt]

*Nevermind* misread the article.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Don't go in the water.

http://www.local8now.com/content/ne...a-after-North-Carolina-rafting-383995311.html

A teenage woman from Ohio died from a brain-eating amoeba contracted at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte. They are operating as if nothing happened.

In other news
Guy went swimming for 20 minutes in Galveston, had a cut on his leg that got infected with flesh-eating bacteria in the water, lost his leg 4 days later.

 

[Bert Notorius]

those pesky hotel
electric ptac units
sure put off
alot of carbon monoxide.

 

[BotanyBoy]

When I go to North Carolina what I do is I raise up....

Take my shirt off....

Twist it round' my head and spin it like a helicopter.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Don't go in the water.

http://www.local8now.com/content/ne...a-after-North-Carolina-rafting-383995311.html

A teenage woman from Ohio died from a brain-eating amoeba contracted at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte. They are operating as if nothing happened.

Not exactly.

"At this point, the USNWC and the Centers for Disease Control, the North Carolina Department of Health and the Mecklenburg County Health Department have met to share information. An important point to highlight is that according to the health officials, the source of this organism has not been identified, and in all likelihood, is not identifiable. However, it is equally important to recognize that the organism is commonly found around the world in open bodies of water and the USNWC does have several such bodies of water.

The various health officials have stressed that while the presence of the organism is common, it is extremely rare to become infected by it. The CDC pointed out that there have been approximately 130 cases of the infection dating back to 1937 compared with 11 deaths every day from drowning. This comparison is driving our actions and analysis since the CDC is telling us that one occurrence is extremely rare and a second occurrence is equally rare. In other words, there are no outbreaks. Our focus is always on stressing safety and risk in the most appropriate manner possible."

http://usnwc.org/official-statement-6-22-16/

 

[Lancecastor]

They always downplay brain eating amoeba stories in NC.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

North Carolina is a wonderful place.

I have many pleasant memories of my time there.

It pains me greatly to think they have a law like that for homes.

It makes me think that the politicians no longer believe that people will act in accordance with their own self interests and how many criminals have they now created among the poorest in the state...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Here is an honest question. Is there anything in your life you don't have to find the bad side of? Tell me your good things. Really, I would like to know. This is not a trap.

This too...



I think that this reaction is because NC might be a "red" state.

 

[hashtag45]

lol What's up with phrodeau and his ambulance-chasing stories?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

lol What's up with phrodeau and his ambulance-chasing stories?

I assume that yesterday's speech by the Trump has him running for cover. He needs to keep the conversation away from politics for a change.

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.presstelegram.com/lgbt/2...th-carolina-mississippi-due-to-anti-lgbt-laws

Long Beach city employees won’t be booking any more trips to North Carolina or Mississippi. The City Council voted Tuesday to halt “nonessential” travel to those states until their governments repeal laws opposed by the LGBT community and its allies.

 

[Lancecastor]

http://www.presstelegram.com/lgbt/2...th-carolina-mississippi-due-to-anti-lgbt-laws

They should have a dance-off and settle this now!

 

[phrodeau]

The amoeba-infested portion of the Whitewater Center has been closed.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/wh...r-brain-eating-amoeba-officials-say/362029819

CHARLOTTE, N.C. —

The U.S. National Whitewater Center voluntarily closed its whitewater rafting activities Friday afternoon after water samples tested positive for a brain-eating amoeba, officials confirmed.

The center itself is not closed with land and flat-water activities continuing.

 

[stickygirl]

The amoeba-infested portion of the Whitewater Center has been closed.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/wh...r-brain-eating-amoeba-officials-say/362029819

How can they tell if someone has got a brain-eating amoeba in NC?

 

[phrodeau]

Here is an honest question. Is there anything in your life you don't have to find the bad side of? Tell me your good things. Really, I would like to know. This is not a trap.

Charlotte is lovely this time of year.

 

[snugglestruggle]

lol What's up with phrodeau and his ambulance-chasing stories?

 

[Stewart_Pidd]

Charlotte is lovely this time of year.

will they be making new travel and tourism ads bro?

Stew

 

[Pookie]

will they be making new travel and tourism ads bro?

Stew

Their street festivals are killer cuz bro!

 

[raindancer]

It's rough out here in Norf Cackalacky.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

Any time we've gone to North Carolina we stayed in our RV during the nights .......... and lived.
Son dated a gal who went to the college in Charlotte. She almost seemed normal.
We whitewater rafted there many summers. Of course I was already brain dead by then.

We lived 23 years in Florida and kept hearing about sink holes, hurricanes, and man eating gators. We still lived.

We now live in the midwest in a known tornado path where I was raised by midwesterners. I lived to retire there and plan on living there throughout the day.


PS THE SKY IS FALLING.