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The caravan crawling down Cromwell was one of 55 teams of National Guard, state patrol and civilian volunteers working to deliver emergency supplies to every household. So far, the state reports that between these deliveries and the five resource sites where people can also pick up free supplies themselves, more than 121,400 cases of water, 82,600 water filters and 23,400 water testing kits have been distributed.

Flint residents still paying bills for contaminated Water
Tina Kellogg, a 33-year-old mother of two, has been enforcing a strict bottled-water-only rule in her house since the city first switched its water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River nearly two years ago.

Early days
“There was no way, even though it was being cycled, that we were drinking it,” Kellogg told Yahoo News.

Scholing
And while the image of the National Guard going door to door with water might “look really good,” Kellogg said she’d much rather pay $2 for a case of 35 water bottles at Walmart than pay the $160 bill she receives every month for contaminated water they only use to shower.

Early Schooling
“I personally don’t feel that we should be having to pay a water bill at this point in time,” she said. “I think that could be a break that they should give all citizens.”

Parenthood in College
Kellogg said she associates the Flint River with news reports of dead bodies found at the bottom and the garbage she said she’s seen floating in it. Before the switch, Kellogg and her family regularly drank and cooked with tap water, but now they only use it to bathe.

Here Children
“None of us have broke out in a rash, but we do watch for that,” she said, noting that they also use the tap water to brush their teeth but are careful not to swallow — a routine she’s worked hard to impose on her 9-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son.