Its been raining nonstop here (pic)
 

Nonstop rain for 2 weeks
SO bad that there are issues with our water systems here

"GREATER VANCOUVER - Vancouver Coastal Health is warning people across Greater Vancouver not to drink their water if it appears brown when it comes from their taps.

Chief medical health officer Dr. John Blatherwick said people could have water with high turbidity, cloudiness or haziness caused by particles.

"We are having a problem with the waterline at Seymour [watershed] so Capilano is having to be used and Capilano is our worst source in terms of turbidity," Blatherwick said.

"We thought we should tell people that if the water is brown [this] morning we know it's brown and don't drink the brown water," he added.

He said if people drink the water, however, the worst that can happen is they can suffer from gastrointestinal illness. "

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I am concerned that this will happen

buy an umbrella and stfu whiner :2 cents:

You're in the Lower Mainland? Have you lost power or phone service in the last 2 weeks?

its all my fault.. 2 weeks ago my windshield wiper was falling off, i didnt want to take the time to go buy a new one.. i knew it would stop raining.. i said if i go buy new ones it better keep raining.. 2 weeks later.. its still raining

damn that pretty much sucks :(

Wow there's a solution to the problem
fuckoff neeeewb sigwhore bitch

Nope I am downtown the power and phoneservice is fine over here
:)

I hate the rain

I am sorry, but do they really need to tell people this?

The part about not drinking the water yes -
the part about brown water coming out of tap - its obvious
:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Really? So, unless specifically told not to drink brown water, the average Canadian will?

What color is your water normally?

Actually in some location the water coming out of the tap
is not appearing brown its yellowish but u really cannot
tell unless you put it in a cup or plug the drain in the sink or tub
Nevertheless , the water system is screwed right now u
cannot drink it .

yeah here in vancouver is crazy, we have poo and pee in our water

I am sorry, but if my water appeared "yellowish" I would not be any more inclined to drink it than if it were brown, black, green or any other color.

Like i said in some locations lower mainland ,
you can't really see the water color being yellow it
still comes out clearish from the tap . Trust me dude
if you were here you would NOT be able to tell , however
you might suspect something if you looked over at the toilet
:winkwink:

goodness... make for the high ground

I've been on a boiled water notice since Nov 3rd. And yeah, the water isn't "clear".

It's funny how spoiled everyone has become, or maybe if you've never lived in a rural area you would never realize that a lot of times the water can look "dirty". It's just natural when you're dealing with fresh water. Given I grew up drinking well water, I find it amusing watching everyone going crazy buying up bottled water.

Power was out here for just over 2 days. Got to stock up tomorrow as there's another storm coming. Don't think it will be as bad though.

Yea the tap water is semi brown :(

sad to hear about the continuous raining there.. I hope the electricity is doing just fine...

I really don't mind the rain much and as far as the brown tap water goes I only drink bottled water so it makes no difference to me

There is NO Bottled water here Downtown! This sucks! Fuck it I might just drink it.... or not.

Only yellowish? Then you should be safe... they said if it was brown not to drink it.

Get coffee or tea from places like Starbucks?? Eat salads??? Eat Soup??? The water is used everywhere.

Just make sure you've boiled it for at least a minute before hand.

We have a fair weather here.. and It's a nice day.

it doesnt look good.

give us some of that rain weve had drought conditions for the past 5 years

My water turned browish this AM. :(

we lost hydro power wednesday at noon and we just got it back an hour ago...winds were over 100K in the fraser valley...:(

The weather has been fine here lately. :)

rained like shit here on thursday

That's cool. I wish it would rain 2 weeks straight in Cali. It hasnt rained that much down here in like 300 years.

raining is most terrible weather posible:(

Have you heard of hurricanes?Katrina ringz a bell?:)

I live in norway... it rains all the time here... Nothing new

This is the End!

Holy shit, stores are running out? That's pretty bad :(

Shit you take for granted...

Um genius, rain is nothing new to Vancouver, the problem is the record volume.

i hate when it rain because you can;t go out... but i like it because it reminds me on good thing...

i think the reason webgurl posted this is because being here in the Vancouver lower mainland .. this is a huge deal .. we don't get bad storms ..earthquakes ..ice storms .. tornadoes ..hurricanes or anything that affects our lives that is some crazy act of God .. and this "little" storm by most of your standards actually caused the largest "boil your water " scare in Canada.. yeah and it only lasted 2 days for the most of us .. so we're back to normal ..wonderful west coast predictable weather ... kinda nice ..

I love the rain

rain is good

:( !!

Been non stop here aswell.

But then again, we get non stop rain during the summer, so it's no biggie :1orglaugh

They need to tell me since it looks clear coming out of the tap but you notice the brown tinge against a white background. Every thing was fine though 'till I hate breakfast at a restaurant yesterday and the next 2 hours were filled with *plop* *plop* *splooooooot* :(

Well do you live in vancouver? :upsidedow

go canada! global warming FTW