We do urge people not to go into the water with open wounds. If you do and you don't clean them, an infection could set in a matter of days.

Certainly, there's always the possibility of people becoming ill if they're swimming in contaminated water.

Even when we do survey work for the department we may ask for ethnic background or the number of people in the family, but never their Social Security number or date of birth.

The water is really nasty. So don't go in the water.

The water right now on the Windward and North Shore is really not the place to be.

Since Wal-Mart and H-E-B is all out of water we had to come to Bastrop to get the things that we need. We need water, flashlights and snacks and stuff.