The U.S. side of the Niagara Falls is pictured in Ontario, January 8, 2014.(Picture: REUTERS/Aaron Harris)
he nation may be slowly thawing from its deep freeze “polar vortex”, but that is no comfort for tens of thousands of Ohioans, whose water supply has literally frozen in the past day after the valves at the Avon Lake Municipal Utility plant were planted in ice, dramatically lowering the supply of water. NBC reports that “tens of thousands of customers in several counties in Ohio are facing a dramatic water shortage after the intake valves at a key plant that draws water from Lake Erie apparently froze amid the wild winter weather.” As a result, the mayor of Avon had a modest proposal as a response to the caticestrophy: don’t flush your toilets. At least there is toilet paper, which is more than Venezuela, and its 480% returning in 2013 stock market can say.
