"It’s bad. It’s beyond bad. I mean, it's just shameful."
-- Krystal Hernandez
Apalachicola, Florida, is experiencing a water crisis after Hurricane Helene damaged a crucial water filtration component.
The town has been in a state of emergency, a lingering effect of last September's Hurricane Helene. The mammoth storm, the first known Category 4 to hit Florida’s Big Bend region since records began in 1851, made landfall 100 miles away but wreaked havoc along the state's Gulf coast.
That included knocking out what's known as a scrubber, making it unable to completely filter the water that flows to Apalachicola homes and businesses. The device isn't easily fixable or replaceable.
Read more at the Tallahassee Democrat