Toledo's mayor compares city-caused water issue to 9/11 terrorist attack

Aug 19, 2014 - Toledo Blade - Mayor says water crisis is similar to 9/11

Mayor D. Michael Collins said on Monday that the water emergency that crippled Toledo’s water supply Aug. 2 was like the terrorist attack suffered by the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 — a wake-up call to community action.

Mr. Collins said in an interview with The Blade’s editorial board and a Blade reporter that just as 9/​11 created a change in Americans’ attitude toward terrorism preparedness, so the great algae bloom of 2014 should not be ignored.

“I’m looking at the events of August 1st through 4th as not dissimilar to the events that took place in New York City in 2001. While we didn’t have a terrorist attack, we had an environmental attack. I look at this as a wake-up call,” Mr. Collins said.

Offensive, obscene, deranged, etc. It's hard to describe how bad Collins now appears.

If a wake-up call exists, it's to the residents of Toledo, and how they allow such dolts to get elected to city government.

This part of the Blade story is either incorrect or incomplete:

From Aug. 2 to Aug. 4, metro Toledoans were forced, with no warning, to rely on bottled and trucked-in water for drinking ...

The City of Oregon, which borders Toledo, was unaffected by Toledo's water crisis because Oregon has its own intake crib in Lake Erie. We filled containers with Oregon's water. We drank Lake Erie water during Toledo's so-called water crisis.

Maybe the failed leaders of Toledo should try to gleam tips from the suburb of Oregon.

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(my comment posted in another ToledoTalk.com thread)

What Collins said is beyond offensive and maybe insane.

This is magnitudes worse than anything that came from 12 years of Carty.

I hope that Collins's grotesque words go national, and the rest of the country verbally assaults Collins.

[Collins] said he is to present a paper on the water crisis to an upcoming meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and said he has reached out to Ohio U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D.) and Rob Portman (R.) for help.

The Senators should ignore Collins. The mayors at the conference should boo Collins.

I don't know how a functioning brain can make such a demented statement.

We shopped at the Toledo farmers market on that Saturday morning, at the height of panic, only a few hours after the terrorist attack began. We grilled out in backyard that evening, drinking beer while people died all around us. Later, we learned that we could use the water for bathing, laundry, and cleaning dishes. We had coffee. It didn't feel like a huge disruption.

From Aug. 2 to Aug. 4, metro Toledoans were forced, with no warning, to rely on bottled and trucked-in water for drinking ...

Except for the City of Oregon, which borders Toledo.

Why do media and politicians ignore the fact that Oregon's water was fine during Toledo's fabricated terrorist attack?

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