During and After

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    Eagle drills Pitner (vertical

  • Argyle female - ovarian cyst removed

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    Gulftex drills Horton

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    Eagle drills Pitner (horizontal)

  • Argyle female - ovary removed

    covered with cysts
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    Gulftex drills Green

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    Arrington drills Ginger Hackel

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    Trio fracks Horton

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    Braden drills Trowell

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    Gulftex fracks Green

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    Gulftex drills Frenchtown 1H

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    Gulftex fracks Frenchtown 1H

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    Williams drills Blessing 6H

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    Williams drills Blessing 7H

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    Williams drills Blessing 5H

  • Bartonville female - pneumonia

    Pneumonia - Live by several wells and compressor stations.
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    Williams drills Wright 10H

  • TCEQ samples Furst Ranch Compressor

    Summa Sample Residents complain of venting-like events
  • Bartonville female - pneumonia

    Pneumonia. Live near Furst Ranch, Walling compressor and several wells.
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    Williams drills Wright 7H

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    Williams drills Blessing 4H

  • Bartonville property - yard is flooded and will not dry up

    Yard is flooded and does not dry up.
  • Bartonville property - frog die-off

    Dozens of dead frogs in yard
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    Gulftex fracks Frenchtown

  • Bartonville property

    Standing water finally dries out and white scale and dirt curls appear everywhere there was standing water.
  • Bartonville - two visitors get bloody noses

    While sitting out on the back patio of the property
  • Bartonville female - bloody nose after morning jog past Blessing

  • Argyle male diagnosed with prostate cancer

    Diagnosed with prostate cancer. Lives near many wells.
  • Bartonville property - massive insect die-off

    hundreds of grasshoppers, caterpillars, beetles and ladybugs drop to the ground on our patio between 5:30 PM and 7:30 PM.
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    Williams fracks Blessing

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    Argyle Central opens

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    113 Pubic Water

    Contaminated with surfactants.
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    Several area residents report problems with well water

  • TCEQ samples Blessing emissions

  • Along Frenchtown road -- smells like gas

    Reported by bike riders
  • Bartonville canine

    Bartonville canine
    Dog vomits after drinking well water
  • Bartonville female - rash

    Bartonville female - rash
    Rash on hand from touch well water. Well water foams.
  • Bartonville female - diagnosed with hypothyroidism.

    Diagnosed with hypothyroidism.
  • Williams spills at Wright

    20 bbl of produced water
  • TCEQ samples Marsdon well site

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    Williams fracks Blessing

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    XTO fracks Ginger Hackel

  • Bartonville property - bug die off

    Bartonville property - bug die off
    Woke up with eyes crusted shut and a headache. Went outside and found crickets dead everywhere. Found one giant grasshopper still partially alive. Plants look like they have been burned by fire.
  • Bartonville female - sharp burning pain in eyes

    It's like someone poured acid in my eyes.
  • TCEQ samples in Badminton subdivision

  • Bartonville female - lethargic and foggy feeling

    Blessing Well SiteSmog-like stuff was covering Frenchtown Road.
  • Argyle female - bleeding between periods

    Bleeding between periods.
  • TCEQ samples Blessing frack

  • TCEQ samples Fuller Family Unit

  • Bartonville female - nausea

    Wright Well smelled like rotten eggs, had to stop riding my bike because the odors made me nauseous. Told a police officer sitting on side of road and filed complaint with TCEQ.
  • Bartonville female - headache, sore throat, side cramps

    Woke up with a headache on the right side of my head and around my eye area. Felt worse as day went on, cramps on left side of my body and had a sore throat on left side of my body. Feel like my face is melting off.
  • TCEQ samples Foster lease

  • Bartonville female - extremeley tired, achy, eyes are swollen

    Bartonville female - extremeley tired, achy, eyes are swollen
    Still have rash from touching well water
  • Bartonville female - headache and nausea

    Headache & nausea
  • Bartonville female - headaches and nausea

    Headache & nausea.
  • @Argyle Central - strong, sickeningly sweet odor

    Reported by bicyclist. TCEQ relayed what operator said -- decomposing tree roots.
  • TCEQ samples Blessing emissions

  • Bartonville female - lethargic, went to bed in late afternoon

    sick, went to bed at 4:35
  • Bartonville female - vomiting, brain feels like its on fire

    Vomited 5 times, brain feels like it is on fire.
  • @Argyle Central - scorched cooking smell, began at dawn, continued all day and well into next night

    Argyle female - eyes watering
    Argyle male - eyes watring
  • Bartonville female - sick

    sick
  • @Argyle Central -- smell of scorch overnight

    1:09 a.m. smelled scorch
  • Argyle male - sick

  • Bartonville female - coughing, feel sick

    feel sick, coughing.
  • @Argyle Central - smelled like scorched sugar

  • @Argyle High School

    7 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. smelled exactly like sugar in a jar
  • Argyle female and male - sick with respiratory issues

  • Argyle male - stomachache, respiratory problems

    Stayed home from school with respiratory issues; sick to stomach
  • Argyle male - stomachache and respiratory problems

    Respiratory and stomach
  • Argyle female - stomachache, deep cough, sniffles

    Home sick with stomache ache and developed deep cough and sniffles
  • Argyle female - knot in left tonsil

    Pesticide smell coming from Argyle Central
  • Bartonville female - coughing, sneezing, runny nose

    Coughting, sneezing, runny nose.
  • Bartonville female - congestion, lungs hurt

    Lungs hurt, congestion.
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    Hillwood drills Whitehead Hall

  • @Argyle Central - middle of the night scorch smell

    12:45 a.m. slight smell of scorch, no health effects
  • Bartonville female - headache, nausea, face paralysis, onion taste in mouth, slurring words

    Headache, nausea, face paralysis, onion taste in mouth, slurring words.
  • @Argyle Central -- dawn, smells like oil

    7 a.m. smelled a little too much like oil
  • @Argyle Central - gassy smell; pesticides smells in the evenings

  • @Argyle Central - Argyle male, scorch smell outside arriving home from work, got in the house, troubled that other family members didn't notice

    11:15 – Got home the scorch smell was in the house. Other family members couldn't smell it, but when I went upstairs – my upstairs east-facing window was open, and I could smell the scorch coming in. I closed the window.
  • @Argyle Central - early a.m. scorch smell permeates entire neighoborhood

    8:45 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. – arriving home after morning jog, could smell the scorch inside the house. The entire neighborhood smells of scorch, from my property almost to Normandy drive.
  • @Argyle Central - smells like burning and sour gas

    Smell something burning and sour gas
  • @Argyle Central - smells like kerosene

    7 a.m smells like kerosene
  • Bartonville female - Sore throat, dry throat, coughing, headaches.

    Sore throat, dry throat, coughing, headaches.
  • @ Argyle Central -- kerosene smells

    7 a.m. smells like kerosene
  • @Argyle Central -- scorch smells begins at midnight, continuous through next day

    Midnight to 1 a.m. smell of scorch
    6:30 p.m. – smell of scorch, eyes irritated …. continuous
    8:30 p.m. – still smelling scorch
    midnight – still smelling scorch
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    Blessing/Wright

    Argyle Water Supply engineer reports that Williams has asked to "baseline" test the public water supply within a quarter-mile of its wells.
  • TCEQ samples Argyle Central emissions

  • Argyle Central/Guests smell pesticide-like smell

  • @Argyle Central - burn smell. Argyle female, migraine

  • Argyle male - migraine started in middle of night, goes all day

    Home from school until noon with severe migraine, started in the middle of the night
  • @Argyle Central - whirring sound at 1 a.m.

    By dawn, cloyingly sweet chemical smell outside, scorch smell begins.
  • @Argyle High School

    7 a.m.- female reported chest pains while running laps.
  • @Argyle High School -- smelled like pesticides and chemical burn

    Driving home, female reports nose bleed.
  • @Argyle High School - fumes on parking lot

    Female reports small nosebleed and trouble concentrating.
  • @Argyle High School - horrible fumes, smells sour, burnt, diesel

    Female reports asthma trouble
  • @Argyle Central - scorch smell overnight, eyes & throat burning

    5:30 a.m. – got up to take Summa sample. Eyes and throat burning
    8:30 a.m. -- still scorch smell
  • @ Argyle High School

    Female experienced chest pains worse than day before, stops training. Occasional smell of methane.
  • @Argyle Central - female eyes and throat burning while taking Summa sample

  • TCEQ samples Argyle Central emissions

  • TCEQ samples Whitehead drill site emissions

  • Bartonville female - bloody nose, sore throat, headache, metal taste in mouth, congestion after going through weird fog on Frenchtown Road

    Bloody nose, scratchy throat, headache. Metal taste in mounth. Congestion. Weird fog covering Frenchtown Road.
  • @Argyle schools - rotten egg smell

    Female reports bump in nose
  • @Argyle Central - smells of scorch

    Affects tow members of family, female reports chest pains; male reports eyes watering all day.
  • @Argyle Central - smells like pesticides

    Pesticide-like smell by barn, bump in nose
  • 121 Argyle High School

    Smells of rotten eggs by Hillwood site
  • TCEQ samples Whitehead drill site emissions

  • @ Argyle Central - five other people have "Dorothy in Field of Poppies" feeling.

    Having gone to bed about 5 p.m. the night before, I slept until 7 this morning. I was still pretty weak on Tuesday morning, but after I got to work, I got more energy through the day. I find out later that five other people have this same feeling after being outside about the same time on Monday.
  • Argyle female -- overwhelming lethargy while working outside in field, go to bed at 3 p.m., sleep til 9 next day

    No smells, but I was working outside in the early afternoon on the east side of my pasture (the side closest to the facility) and was overcome with a feeling of lethargy, like Dorothy in a field of poppies. I tried to take a brief nap in the hammock, around 3 p.m., but I could not rouse myself after 30 minutes of rest. I slept until 4 and then got up to make dinner, and went back into the hammock and slept from about 5 until dark. When it was dark, I was still very lethargic, so I went to bed.
  • @Argyle High School - smells like fingernail polish

    Smells of vomit by Argyle Central and smells of fingernail polish by school
  • TCEQ samples Whitehead drill site emissions

  • Bartonville female - lethargic, air smells bad

    Extremely tired. Air Bad.
  • 11:30 PM loud explosion sound and large rumbling sound lasts 30 minutes

    Boom in middle of nightAround 11:30 PM my house shakes and I hear a loud explosion, I run outside and you can hear a loud rumbling sound that lasts around 30 minutes. I call TCEQ and they arrive at house around 1:30. TCEQ inspetor commented that area smelled like flea dip.
  • Argyle female - debilitating legs cramps over night, smell of pesticides getting into bedroom.

  • TCEQ samples Copper Bluff unit

  • TCEQ samples in Lantana

  • Bartonville female - feel breathless, sore throat, headache; lost my voice -- strong old oily smell by school

    Strong, old oily smell, feel breathless and have a sore throated. Lost my voice, sharp stabbing headache.
  • Bartonville female - using nebulizer over and above asthma meds; coughing

    Using nebulizer over and above asthma medications, coughing a lot
  • @Argyle Central - burn smells; pesticide smells

    Burning smell on path; pesticide-like smell near barn
  • Argyle female - stomachache; diarrhea

    Stomach cramps; diarrhea
  • TCEQ samples Argyle Central emissions

  • TCEQ samples Ginger Hackel

  • Argyle male - red eyes, skin around them flaking

    Red eyes and skin around them flaking
  • Argyle female - spotting between periods

    Spotting between periods
  • Argyle female - stomach cramps; diarrhea

    Stomach cramps; diarrhea
  • Argyle male - red eyes and skin flaking around them

    Red eyes and skin flaking around them
  • Argyle female - stomach cramps; diarrhea

    Stomach cramps; diarrhea
  • @Argyle Central - dusk, scorch smell, continues all night and into next morning

    Scorch smell returns at dusk, does not dissipate until an hour after dawn the next morning.
  • Argyle male - red eyes, skin flaking around them

    Eyes red and skin flaking around them
  • TCEQ samples Whitehead drill site emissions

  • Argyle male - migraine

    Sour, vomit-like smell outside
  • @Argyle Central - strong chemical odor overnight, lingers in morning

    Whirring sounds and sounds of trucks barreling down Frenchtown Road overnight as well. Female reports leg cramps; dog has diarrhea
  • Argyle female sick

  • Argyle female - headache all day; smell pesticides and rotten smell around home

    Slight headache all day; smells like pesticides and something roteen in the backyard and patio
  • Argyle male - right eye very red

    Right eye very red.
  • Argyle male - woke up with headache, headache all day

    Woke up with headache, had headache all day
  • Argyle male - migraine

    Smells like pesticides outside
  • Bartonville female - pain in kidneys

    Lots of pain in kidneys.
  • @Argyle High School

    Evening -- fumes are back during marching practice in the evening
  • @Argyle Central - smells like vomit

    Smells like vomit
  • Argyle female - debiltating leg cramps

    @Argyle Central smells like chemicals -- drifts inside house
  • Argyle male - migraine, preceded by chest and neck pains

    Woke up with migraine, chest hurt last night starting about 9:30 p.m., and like neck pains, is part of the before of a migraine
  • Guest Health Effects

    Reporter with Texas Observer has red eyes, which are watering by the end of a two-hour visit. He has respiratory issues by the time he leaves. After about a half-hour away, everything clears up.
  • SPILL Argyle Central Facility

    Two guests smell the vomit smell.
  • Argyle female - stomach cramps

    Stomach cramps
  • @Argyle Central - petroleum-like smell

    Guest smelled a petroleum-like smell
  • Argyle female - stomach cramps; smells like vomit/pesticide outside

    Went to bed with stomach cramps; smelled like sewer outside -- a very strong vomit smell with a pesticide edge to it.
  • @Argyle High School

  • @Argyle High School

  • Argyle male - stomach cramps and diarhea; smell of vomit in yard

    Stomach cramps and diarrhea; vomit smell by the house
  • @Argyle Central - Chemical smell at midnight; Argyle female - dizzy

    Midnight. Came home from San Antonio to overwhelming chemical smell outside. Made me dizzy for a second.
  • Bartonville male - dies of rare brain tumor

    Dies of rare brain tumor.
  • Argyle male - headache

    Headache
  • Argyle female - headache, tired, went to bed, asleep by 9

    Got home from work with a headache; went to bed at 8, asleep by 9
  • @Argyle Central - overwhelming chemical smell - gets inside house; feel agitated

    Came home from work the night before about 7:30 and the air was clear, but when I got up at 3 a.m. to let the dog out and then back in, overwhelming chemical smell rushed in my bedroom. I had been agitated since about midnight and couldn’t understand why. Closed the doors to my bedroom and went to sleep on the sofa.
  • Argyle female - stomachache

    Came home from school complaining of stomachache
  • Argyle male - migraine, neck pain; smells of nail polish remover at school

    Home from school with migraine, pain in back of neck as well; smells like nail polish remover at well by school.
  • Argyle female - headache

    Home from school with headache
  • @Argyle Central - overwhelming chemical small all day, headache

    Opened bedroom doors at 7 a.m. to let the dog out, overwhelming chemical smell rushed in. Got a headache … smell still there when I left for Arlington at 7:30.
  • Argyle female - stomachache, fever

    Stomachache continues, running a fever
  • Bartonville male -- trouble breathing; lethargic, take long nap in middle of day

    Trouble breathing. Need to take a nap in the middle of day. Very tired and lethargic.
  • Argyle female -- stomachache, high fever

    Stomachache and fever continue
  • Argyle female - stomachache, high fever, spleen is enlarged

    Stomachache continues, fever is higher, go to doctor get penicillin shot and zithromax -- stomachache is worse, fever still high. Go back to doctor at night for CT scan, spleen is enlarged
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    Argyle Central Facilty

    Open venting of frack tanks
  • @Argyle Central - vomit smell, makes eyes sting

    9:22 p.m. Smells like vomit outside. Made my eyes sting.
  • @Argyle Central

  • @Argyle Central

  • Argyle male - vomiting

    Home sick from school, throwing up.
  • Argyle female - fever

    Home sick from school, fever elevated but under control
  • Argyle female - headache, neckache, tired; smells of vomit outside

    Very tired again, headache and back of neck hurts; smells like vomit between the house and the barn.
  • Argyle female - headache, neckache, tired; smells like pesticides outside

    Very tired again, have headache and neckache, lay down to get relief. Smells like pesticides near the barn.
  • @Argyle Intermediate

  • Argyle female - still running fever, spleen enlarged

    Still running fever, doctor recommends a blood draw and test for mono, environmental exposure
  • @Argyle Central - strong chemical smell in evening; Argyle female reports eyes burning, odd cough

    Evening. Overwhelming chemical smell outside. Makes my eyes burn. I have an odd cough.
  • TVA reading of 96 at Argyle Central

    They have been open venting frack tanks all week. (118 spent the night away from home for three days ... feels better now.)
  • @Argyle Central

  • @Argyle Central - after dark, burning smell begins; Argyle female - eyes burning watery, cough. Second Argyle female - coughing

    They are doing some kind of workover at the Wright well and are either burning there, or at Argyle Central, which services the Wright Well.
  • Bartonville female - nostrils burning; eyes watery. Bartonville male - sore throat. Chemical burn smell around yard

  • @Argyle Central - burning smell returns after dark; also vomit smell

    After dark. Burning smell returns, with a vomit edge to it. Not outside long enough to have any health effects.
  • Argyle female - joint pain, including knee, for no reason

    Knee is hurting, joint pain for no reason
  • Bartonville male - woke in night with headache and vomiting; blood and tissue in vomit.

    Woke up with headache and was vomiting in middle of the night. Looks like blood and pieces of tissue in vomit.
  • Bartonville female - blisters on legs and hands; pop and ooze clear

    Bartonville female - blisters on legs and hands; pop and ooze clear
    Blister like sores appear on my legs and hands. They pop open they ooze a clear liquid.
  • Argyle male - headache

    Headache
  • @Argyle Central - Pesticide smells; sickeningly sweet smells

    Slight sweet smell almost like food by house. Light pesticide smell by barn.
  • Argyle male - headache, respiratory problems require dr.'s care

    going to doctor for headache, respiratory issues.
  • @Argyle Central - strong smell of pesticides in neighborhood

    Call TCEQ and complain.
  • Bartonville female - open sores on face and body

    Open sores on face and body.
  • Argyle male - home sick

    Home sick, getting blood work drawn.
  • Argyle male - woke in night with nosebleed

    Home sick. Woke up at 10:15 with nosebleed.
  • @Argyle Central - sweet, chemical smell; gassy smells

    Got home tonight about 10:30 and smelled a sweetish chemical smell out front. When I went out back to get firewood, it smelled like gas. I think they turned on another compressor today.
  • Bartonville female - headache, sore throat

    Have mom pick me up school early because of headache and sore throat.
  • @Argyle Central - burn and pesticide smells

    Slight burn smell and pesticide smell by barn.
  • Argyle female - eyes watering; burning in throat and nose. Argyle female - headache, sore throat.

    My eyes are watering, throat and nose have a burning sensation. Our daughter has a headache and sore throat.
  • Bartonville female - awakes with high fever, headache, sore throat - strep test is negative

    Our daughter wakes at 4am with extremely high fever, headache and sore throat. We take her to the urgent care - they test for strep and find nothing.
  • Argyle female - sores in corners of mouth

    Sores in corners of mouth.
  • Bartonville female - headache

    Headache
  • Argyle female - sores in corners of mouth

    Sores in corners of mouth.
  • @Argyle Central - chemical smell, now in the house

    Got home after three days out of town. Chemical smell at 9:30 p.m. was powerful, now that we’ve had some perspective. Walked in the house and it was in the house, too. At first, we couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. It was in the heating system. My HVAC is on the east side.
  • Bartonville female - fever of 101.8, back to urgent care after two days of antibiotics with no effect

    Daughter goes to urgent care for 2nd time. Her fever still at 101.8, after 2 days of antibiotics nothing is changing.
  • Argyle female - sores in corners of mouth

    Sores in corners of mouth.
  • Argyle male - sick, antibiotics not helping

    Sick and on antibiotics.
  • @Argyle Central

  • Argyle female - sores in corners of mouth

    Sores in corners of mouth.
  • Argyle female - sores in corners of mouth

    Sores in corners of mouth.
  • Bartonville female - diarrhea, headache

    diarrhea, headache.
  • Argyle female - sores in corners of mouth

    Sores in corners of mouth.
  • Argyle male - nasal congestion bad enough for meds

    Suffy nose, needed medication
  • Argyle female - sores in corners of mouth

    Sores in corners of mouth.
  • @Argyle Central - pesticide smell

    Smelt like pesticides by house.
  • Bartonville female - awoke at 3 a.m. with headache, nausea. Headache stayed all day

    Woke at 3AM with headache so bad I thought I was going to vomit. Headache stayed all day.
  • Argyle female - sores in corners of mouth

    sores in corners of mouth
  • Bartonville female - headache all day

    Headache off and on all day.
  • Argyle female - sores in corners of mouth

    Sores in corners of mouth
  • Bartonville female - headache, blurred vision, swollen eyes; burn smell

    Headache all day, blurry vision off and on, eyelids swollen. House smells like burn.
  • Argyle female - respiratory problems bad enough for meds

    Respiratory problems require medication
  • Argyle male - headache

    Headache after school
  • Argyle female - sores in corners of mouth

    Sores in corners of mouth
  • Argyle female - woke with headache, bloody nose; burn smell in house

    Woke in the morning with a headache and bloody nose. House smells like burn.
  • Argyle females -- respiratory meds needed

    Respiratory issues require medication
  • Argyle female - sores in corners of mouth

    Sores in corners of mouth
  • Bartonville female - Headache all day; bloody nose, cramps, watery eyes; spotting. Burn smell in house

    Headache all day continued over from the previous day. Bloody nose in the morning, cramps, watery eyes, unusual spotting. Faint Smell of burn in the house.
  • Bartonville female - lethargic, leg cramps, congeation, headache, blisters on legs - burn smell every where

    Bartonville female - lethargic, leg cramps, congeation, headache, blisters on legs - burn smell every where
    House is full of burn smell, very substantial smell. Very lethargic, slept longer than normal. Woke at 7am to leg cramps and congestion. Headache off and on all day. Odd blister like sores appearing on legs.
  • Argyle female - diarrhea with blood in stool; severe stomach cramps

    Diarrhea with blood in stool; severe stomach cramps
  • Argyle female - running fever

    running fever
  • Bartonville female - headache all day, congestion, burn smell everywhere

    Out-of-town visitor said it smelled like a really bad perfume and develops a hacking cough.
  • Argyle male - tired; took very long nap

    Very tired, took long nap
  • Argyle female - tired, sleep all day

    Very tired, sleeping off and on all day
  • Bartonville female - headache; congestion; burn smell everywhere

    Burn smell in the house off and on, not as bad as the few days following. Headache and congestion. Ran the marathon and it took me almost an hour longer than last year.
  • Trios Well

  • Bartonville female - open sores on body and face

    Open sores on body and face.
  • Argyle female - headache all day

    Headache all day
  • Bartonville female - earache, strange sound in right ear

    Ear ache, weird sound in right ear.
  • @Argyle Central - sour odor

    Slight odor near barn
  • Bartonville female - difficulty concentrating

    Difficulty concentrating.
  • Argyle female -- very tired, had to sleep

    Very tired, took a nap
  • @Argyle Central