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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: B.K.Myers who wrote (7451)7/31/1999 10:48:00 AM
From: Lane3   of 9818
 
I concur on the Clorox.

I've been known to travel to out-of-the way places where the availability of bottled water is iffy. A while back I visited Angel Falls in Venezuela. It's a wonderful trip, a couple of days up river to the falls, sleeping out in jungle hammocks along the way (and a plot of ground behind the bush for a latrine). The guides/oarsmen always had coolers of Kool-Ade for us to drink, but I never saw anyone bringing in water. I presume they were giving us river water. Despite my discomfort, or perhaps because I didn't want to know, I never asked. Needless to say, I survived the experience. When I got home I did some research and ended up carrying a small bottle of Clorox, carefully packed, when I travel to remote places. The only time I ever used it was in the Wolong province of China, where I drank river water. I survived that experience as well.

I think for those whose personal comfort level requires only a modest preparation for the unavailability of water, a jug of Clorox is a reasonable approach.

Karen

p.s. I recommend Angel Falls to anyone who hasn't been there. The trip upriver winds through dense growth covering mountains that are called tepuis. They look like the mesas in the western U.S. but with vegetation. There are parrot sounds everywhere and wispy clouds among the tepuis. This is the part of the world that inspired Arthur Connan Doyle to write "Lost World." As you drift through, you can almost picture a pterodactyl taking off from one of the cliffs. Cool.
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