Well, the good thing about this late-March cold snap is that I can drink the tap water again, and have a shower without making my whole apartment smell like swimming pool.

[ameliasbrain@mstdn.ca]

Well, the good thing about this late-March cold snap is that I can drink the tap water again, and have a shower without making my whole apartment smell like swimming pool.

#YEG #YEGwx

(Organic compounds in spring snowmelt runoff cause very stinky chemical reactions with the chloramine used to sterilize tap water. The rain last week put that to extreme levels that lasted through the weekend. Just washing hands would give me a bit of a headache from the chlorine smell.)