A few drips of good news greeted residents of West Virginia today, but the fallout from last week’s chemical spill is far from over.There's finally relief for some of the 300,000 West Virginians who've been unable to drink, cook or even bathe with tap water for five days.Governor Earl Ray Tomblin announced today that test results are now below toxic levels.The numbers we have today look good, and we're finally at a point where the do-not-use order has been lifted in certain areas.We have made a lot of progress, but I ask all West Virginians to continue to be patient as we work to safely restore service to the affected areas.It can't happen soon enough for people who scrounged for ice and bottled water over the weekend.More than 230 visited emergency rooms complaining of exposure symptoms; 14 were admitted. Still, some were undaunted.A local beauty pageant went on as planned.We cannot take showers, so some girls are using water bottles to wash their hair, using a lot of dry shampoo, baby powder, lots of hair spray and teasing.The crisis began Thursday, when 7,500 gallons of the chemical 4-methylcyclohexane methanol leaked from a storage tank at Freedom Industries.
