N.J. Residents Still Boiling Water...09/21/99

EDISON, N.J. (AP) - More than 1 million people in New Jersey were under orders Monday to boil their tap water because the flooding from Hurricane Floyd may have contaminated it. Thousands of residents of Edison and nearby towns lined up for bottled water, offered free to the elderly and families with children under 2. Police delivered water to hundreds of elderly unable to leave their homes. "It's amazing how you take it for granted. You run the tap and that's it, and now it's like an emergency," said Christina Hussein, who brought her 5-month-old son, Tamir, on her arm as she picked up bottled water.

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