Here is a website if you didn't get it before about Michigan
http://www.watershedcouncil.org/learn/hydraulic-fracturing/
Thought I would share my stupidity.
I went snorkeling in the local water, well.... Lake Huron. Knew this might cause me a problem but I really wanted to do it. It's on my bucket list-things you want to do before you die (it was a movie). Put on my wet suit (made of material I shouldn't have been wearing) put that plastic mask on my face and snorkel in my mouth. Hubby Joe told me to get down in the 2 feet water, spit in my mask (yuk) then rinse it out and it won't fog up. It worked but yuk lol.
It was so neat to see underwater like that, staring eye to eye with a gobe (not sure of the spelling) but it is an intrusive species in the lakes.
The area was an old saw mill, ohoh, and lots of coal bearied in the bed, ohohoh. So far so good. Well....got back out of the lake and noticed a browish, reddish water coming off of something we had. Figured it was his leather shoes (yes he wore them in the water). Come to find out a morning later it was my hair color that came out of my hair.
The darn Great Lakes water took the color out of my hair (never mind that I colored my hair as organically as I could a couple months back!).
My desire to want to be "normal" didn't pan out so well. Skip to next morning: burning skin, all my muscles hurt and that grey hair I was trying to hide.
Now my thought is what the heck is in the water and darn that water for me not having a "normal" moment.
So, word to the wise, think twice before you swim in the Great Lakes with colored hair and chemically sensitive.
jaime
Cheboygan
Northern Michigan
