Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Gretchen Potter (gpotter@calinet.com)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:40:17 -0700


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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On the subject of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, just a week or so ago two guys
were found on a drifting fishing boat off Port San Luis, dead. The
suspected cause is Carbon Monoxide poisoning in the cabin.

Fruit for thought.

gretchen
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Goller <gollerj@home.com>
To: West Wight Potter Mailing List <wwpotter@tscnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 4:06 PM
Subject: Thank you

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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
> http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> Thank you for all of your good wishes during the Hurricane. I really
> have to agree with the comments on the "Media Circus" We had massive
> traffic jams as the entire SC coastal area evacuated.
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> Then as everyone was stuck on I-26 for 13 hours, a chemical plant caught
> fire and we had a HAZ-MAT emergency with burning phosphorus. Talk about
> panic on top of panic.
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> I am an ER doctor here in Charleston, and stayed in town. Had gusts up
> to 80 MPH it was pretty wild. I worked last night during the storm -
> treated a family of 5 who tried to use a portable generator INSIDE the
> house and almost all died. The baby had a cabon Monoxide level of 39% -
> near fatal, but they are all doing well, no sequela expected. There is
> a lesson for us Potterers here about using things that create carbon
> monoxide in enclosed places( i.e. a stove in the cabin of a Potter
> during a storm).
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> The Potter fared well in my garage tied down, keeping my important
> papers safe and dry. She was there & glad to see me when I got home
> today.
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> Take care, and my best wishes for our fellow Potteres up the East Coast
> who are being visited by Floyd right now.
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> Jeff Goller
> P-15 #2068 "At Long Last"
> Charleston, SC
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> "There are things a man will tell his bartender, that he would never
> tell his physician..." Quoted from Dr. Mark Piper
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