Markus’ Blog

Apparently it’s been raining so hard and so much in such a short period of time that Greater Vancouver’s (and some of Vancouver Island’s) water supply got contaminated with unclean water.

Tap water has been brown and cloudy since the storm and could cause gastrointestinal illness, medical health officers said. [...] Residents are being advised to use bottled water or to boil tap water for a full minute before drinking, brushing teeth or washing food. Water should be boiled and allowed to cool before being put in another container or refrigerated.

More on CBC.

Yes, indeed. The suff that’s coming out of our pipes right now is pretty yellowish-brown and has a definite earthy, muddy smell to it. This is my first time ever being personally affected by nasty weather. Yep, even this little inconvenience is more than I’ve ever had to deal with before. So far, the side effects of storms, rain and other nasty weather have been something I watched on TV only.

Of course pretty much every single store is sold out of bottled water now. Mostly because people buy in bulk (completely unnecessarily, of course), as if there was no hope stores would ever get new shipments of bottled, clean water. Sure they will, it’s not like the roads were all washed away or the economy was destroyed or something.

I don’t like it very much when people “panic” in this weird way and start acting all irrationally.