Orlando is having to take short showers, accept brown lawns and dirty cars to try to save the people in the local hospitals with severe Covid symptoms – Orlando residents asked to limit water usage to help Covid-19 patients:

(CNN)Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is asking residents to conserve water because liquid oxygen, used to treat the community’s water supply, is needed to treat the surge of Covid-19 patients in the community.

“Nationally, the demand for liquid oxygen is extremely high as the priority for its use is to save lives,” the mayor said in a Facebook post on Friday.

To reduce demand, the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) asked customers to immediately limit watering their lawns and landscapes, take short showers, repair leaking faucets and toilets, stop washing their vehicles and performing “non-critical activities” like pressure washing, the municipal utility said in a notice.

Now we will have another way of telling sane people from MAGats – the sane people will have dusty cars and burnt lawns. DeMentis will probably issue an executive order saying people don’t have reduce their water use because “FREEDOM!!!!!” 😈

Position: 41.9N 73.2W [10:00PM CDT 0300UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [290°] near 8 mph [13 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 30 mph [ 45 kph].
Wind Gusts: 40 mph [ 65 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1002 mb ↑.

Currently about 85 miles [ 140 km] North-Northeast of New York City.

This is the last public advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center on Tropical Depression Henri.

There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.

The storm made landfall in Rhode Island at 11:15AM CDT.

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