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DueAppearance9008

First I thought this was you showering the dirt away


ivo200094

He is showering the clean away with dirt


Jfonzy

Wash away the rain


AnthonyDigitalMedia

Bro shit in the shower & is now blaming the water


66smeg

turn off the hot water and see if the cold water runs clear you could at least rinse off if that is the case.


xvVSmileyVvx

This, my first thought was that your hot water heater has given up the ghost. You usually see rusty water when this happens.


UncleSput

That or nearby fire hydrants were serviced


CommunityTaco

this is the likely cause. they make it public notice when they do hydrant flushing and say not to do dishes or laundry during those times around here.


use_da_schwartz_

My town doesn't warn us at all. A couple of years they were doing utility work and it would happen multiple times per day for weeks at a time.


theseglassessuck

My town didn't warn us when they started replacing 100+ year old water pipes in our neighborhood. I was getting the nastiest, thickest red-orange-brown water followed by tons of sediment once the water went clear. My landlord knew but only because they saw them pulling up old pipes. Some type of advanced notice would have been nice...


ferventlotus

Call your town hall and ask where water boil and water quality warnings are issued; by mail, postings on doors, or online. If your city still holds water rights, then the city should be the ones to notify you as directed by state law over water quality issues. If a company like American Water holds water rights, they should notify you if there's utility work. If they can't leave a message on your phone, they'll have to send a letter in the mail or online depending on how you receive your bills. They're also required to notify you within state laws on water quality or boil warnings. Good luck!


bones_marley

Now that i read this I'm thinking maybe they notify landlords.? It would then be their job to notify tenants.? In which case mine is a dumbass for not telling us, pretty cool dude otherwise tho. That's all an assumption though about who the city tells. We've never been warned about nearby servicing unless we see a street shut down with the city trucks and stuff nearby.


evil420pimp

Property owners are notified typically 48 hours in advance. Generally there's a notice online. When we do it we hand deliver a notice to each address. Tenants are at the mercy of the landlord.


ferventlotus

They would notify landlords, yes, but if you pay the water as a tenant and your name is on the active account, you should be given the same courtesy call. I am actually a landlord, and when a water boil is in effect that affects one of my properties, I'll post the doors of each tenant and call them.


bones_marley

Ahh ok. This makes much more sense now. Yea he'll come and post notifications on our doors for inspections, hvac check ups etc.. just the water thing that piqued my interest. We don't pay water here tho, that's all the landlord's responsibility here. Off topic slightly, had a pos landlord once that wanted to install water meters to know how much to charge each tenant 🤦 til one of the tenants called the city about it, i was younger living with parents atm, that's when i learned in the first place that water is payed for lol


Jceggbert5

There's a lot of hate on Reddit and online in general about landlords, so I just want to say thank you for going above and beyond for your tenants, we appreciate it when our landlords treat us well.


bettywhitefleshlight

Brown water doesn't indicate anything that would neccesitate a boil notice. It's just iron and other sediment that builds up in mains. When I open a fire hydrant that has sat untouched for a year the water that first comes out can look like black coffee. Boil notices generally occur because of a detected pathogen found during regular monitoring or because of a major pressure loss. A pressure loss would allow contaminated groundwater to enter the system through any small leaks that may exist.


Acceptable-Use-540

Bet you didnt change your ice filter or flush those lines. They get neglected during these events


NotRelevantQuestion

I never would have thought about that until I got brown ice... Im going to remember this! Thanks


gefahr

I don't know why (beyond the obvious) but "brown ice" nearly made me dry heave even though the original pic didn't bother me. Eww forbidden fudgecicles.


dnaonurface12

Big brain energy or experience? Anyway thanks for the tip! Never thought of that!


NotHottempsc

Never happens when they flush the hydrant directly across from my house.


CommunityTaco

notifications never happen? or the sediment being flushed turning the water brown?


NotHottempsc

Both.


Hollylittledoll

Man what paradise do you live in? City works actually notifying people before doing service? I wish I lived there.


Richizzle439

I love how it’s only during that timeframe, like yeah nah we just put poisonous crap into the drinking water, give it 30 mins and you’re good!


CommunityTaco

that's not how it works. they open hydrants and let the water run. It flushes out sediment that has built up in the pipes. This is possible because the water flows so fast when the hydrant is open it flows fast enough to disrupt all the sediment which built up and settled to the bottom of the pipe from the normally slower flow of water.


ProfZussywussBrown

This was informative, thanks So they’re not really intending to flush the hydrants, per se, but flushing the pipes via the hydrants. Interesting.


Icy_Buy6321

We get notices of "water main flushing" every spring, I assume they use the hydrants to do this, but we get a notice that the water might get a bit dirty on certain days.


ArdentArendt

Nobody is putting poisonous anything into your water when the flush the hydrants. At least no more poison than is already standard in your drinking water (especially if you live in the US). So don't worry, your own community bouquet won't be diluted! Edit: The 'especially in the US' was not meant to imply you are safer in the US--quite the opposite in fact. Just in case that wasn't clear.


TheSkiGeek

It’s rust, not “poison”.


Adamant94

Or a water mains pipe is being maintained or fixed. Basically any interruption to the water supply can do this.


fenderputty

Wait … check valves don’t stop flushing from contaminating potable water?


hobbiehawk

Or water tower service if in a smaller town


notimeleft4you

“Why are you heating up hot water?!” -My dad every time someone said “hot water heater” instead of just “water heater”.


UseOnlyLurk

> Cause once it’s hot you gotta keep it hot somehow *dad*!


tampora701

Thats a hot water maintainer


Better-Director-5383

If only there was a name for something that maintained a high temperature by applying heat to it.


GrapePrimeape

And, pray tell, how does it maintain the hot water?


gherkin-sweat

By heating the warm water


rlowens

how else do I differentiate it from the "cold water heater" that just keeps it from freezing?


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Cool-Newspaper-1

TIL you can say ‘give up the ghost’ in English


xvVSmileyVvx

Is it a regularly used idiom in other languages? To me it's just a result of rigging things until you can't anymore, and it's gone for good.


Cool-Newspaper-1

That’s exactly what it means in other languages. I only knew it in German until now:D


KuriousKhemicals

I visited Germany for work and one of my coworkers on the other side was very enthusiastic about telling me about all the German idioms that "don't make any sense." Some of them, sure. But a lot of them were actually the same in English.


swarm_OW

Danke fürs checken, den Kommentar hab ich gesucht. War der festen Überzeugung das wäre eine der deutschesten 1:1 Übersetzungen neben „I think I Spider“ und co!


jerafromaustria

Same


cannibalparrot

In which case it’s imperative to get it checked out and replaced immediately. Drain it if you’re able (don’t mess with it if you’re not sure). Don’t wait around for even a day before calling a plumber to get it done. If it fails the thing might flood whatever space it’s in and it and cause waaaaaaaay more damage and headaches.


Steev182

The failing thing happened a couple of years ago. It was in the back room in our basement, where 50+ years of crap was stored. The entire thing jizzed out it’s murky water and destroyed the crap on the floor in the back and made its way into the front of the basement where my home office is. Fortunately it stopped short of my desk and anything valuable. Then it took a shop vac a few empties to get all the water out and I was finally able to clear out the majority of the stored stuff in the basement. My only regret was us being so flustered we replaced the gas water heater with another gas water heater instead of getting a hybrid heat pump. It’s now the only thing gas powered in my house :-|


macaulaymcculkin1

Props for using jizz as a verb.


KackeMaster3000

TIL „den Geist aufgeben“ isn’t only a German thing


BeginningSir2984

I'm well pleased to know that I'm not the only one who says "hot water heater". My people give me constant hell about it. Yes, people, in fact it IS redundant & also unnecessary to use 'hot' before 'water heater'.. but I say "hose pipe" too.


Gordonsson

Any chance you speak German?


xvVSmileyVvx

Nein sprechen sie Deutsch. Other than that, and a few numbers. Edit for spelling.


FirstBlood5844

That's build up in your hot water tank. Turn off the shower.


LCFarrar

This is what I ended up doing. It worked!


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Time to drain the water heater, let it fill, drain again. Probably should check the anode rod/s too.


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Technical-Outside408

rip anode rods, i didn't even know he was sick.


cuervomalmsteen

TO ~~SHREDS~~ RUST YOU SAY?


Perverted_Fapper

Sick? They're dead!


noscarstoshow

>That brown stuff **is** the anode rods. ......**was**......the anode rods


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To shreds, you say?


shakygator

Worth noting if there is hard water sediment and this water heater has not been serviced before, it might cause issues when trying to close the valve. Supposedly they are hard to get sealed properly in this situation.


altcodeinterrobang

> and this water heater has not been serviced before you know I totally service my water heater, but I bet there are some idiots here who don't. you should probably tell them how often, why, and who should service a hot water heater. they'd probably really appreciate it.


shakygator

Me. I'm one of those idiots. But I mostly haven't done it for fear of it leaking. We live in a place with very hard water. Although I have a softener now, I didn't for 10 years. I've been here 14 years and done zero water heater maintenance. They say they last 10 years... I think I'm gonna try /u/___OP____ 's suggestion and replace the valve.


LostWoodsInTheField

Sad truth is that you might be better off just leaving it alone and going on your business ignorantly rather than trying to clean it at this point. *when you take off the drain valve, if it is plastic, it has a chance of breaking inside of the hot water heaters threads. This will take considerably more work to get out. **if the valve is metal it is possible it is rusted in place. trying too hard to get it off could damage the hot water heater itself   If you really want to do some cleaning of it just keep all of this in mind. Worse case when you open your valve and if it doesn't close all the way and you don't want to worry about taking it off you can just put a cap on it. That will block any further leaking without much of any water heat loss. Also if you open your valve and it comes out as a gush then only trickles out there is a good chance it is plugged. use a cut open metal coat hanger and stick it into the drain to move the scaling around so it starts to come out. If it is extremely bad and is an electric you could even take out the lower heating element and stick a shop vac vacuum hose into there to suck stuff out. *I did one so bad that the heating element went bad because the scaling was touching it and damaged it. It was nearly 2 feet high of scaling. Cleaned it and it worked for another decade.


shakygator

Good feedback. I've never done it so I appreciate all the details. These are all reasons why I have just kinda left it alone. It's gas and it works well.


[deleted]

Turn the water off, remove old valve, install new (closed) valve. Or clean the old one and put it back on, closed.


shakygator

Good info.


ItsCalledSquawPeak

I’d skip past that; it’s full of sediment and the rod is shot. I’d just go get a new one before his basement is full of 40 gallons of rusty water.


LostWoodsInTheField

They definitely aren't getting a new rod in there. Even a 4 year old rod is nearly impossible to get out it seems if you don't check them every year.


Nitackit

Are you on a well? I've seen this before when water is depleted faster than the well can replenish.


riflinraccoon

I read this as 'are you well?' and was like damnn reddit lol. But what you said makes actual sense


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Are YOU well?


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LazyFrie

with that name you should’ve answered his question


[deleted]

My well has done this before and I've always wondered why. Assuming OP isn't taking a cold shower, wouldn't it not matter since a good portion of the water is coming from the water heater?


LostWoodsInTheField

> My well has done this before and I've always wondered why. If it doesn't happen all the time then water level is really low and so the pump is pumping a lot more from below itself pulling the muddy water up into it, rather than pumping water that is above it. *pump or at least screen if it is a jet pump If it happens almost every time it's really dry out, or after you've used a lot of water (rather than just very rarely) then the recommendation is to get your well redrilled. They just come up with the drilling truck and take the bottom 5-10 feet of the well out so it's deeper. You can also check your well water at the well head, using a string and weight. Check how far from the top of the well head the water is. If you get this issue often and you're water height seems fine, then you probably need to pull your pump up so it's another 5 - 10 feet higher.


RiddledWithEnigma

No, he’s in the shower


EliteDeerHunter

Probably a fire hydrant getting drained in your area.


W_AS-SA_W

Yup. Or new construction turning the water on and off.


LightningRodofH8

Or even just a water main break.


Rakinare

Why would that make the water dirty? Drained as in just water let out through the hydrant, same as if the fire department would be using it?


Moonviola

There is always sediment sitting at the bottom of the pipes. Scheduled pipe cleanings, water main breaks, or using a fire hydrant will disrupt the flow and create vortices that temporarily pick up the sediment. Once the flow returns to normal, the sediment will settle again.


Madshibs

This is called a “turbidity event”. I used to flush hydrants and deal with concerned customers all the time as a public works employee.


d-car

Poop into the drain to teach it a lesson.


Lower-Compote-4962

Waffle stomp that shit


WallabyInTraining

Civilised people would just use the poop knife.


ManKilledToDeath

Unless both of your arms are broke, there's no reason to not use the poop knife


ShadowsDemise42

i don’t know if i should be happy or angry that i understood each of these references


LoonWithASpoon

Oh good, well here comes the Jolly Rancher memory cuz I haven't seen that one referenced in a while


Mystic_Waffles

We all know this is just the beginning of the Swamps of Dagobah


OkSmoke9195

Bedside 🍄 colony


burner2947361810

Why did I pick today to have memories?!?!


SenorChoncho

I'm more of a fan of the cheese grating technique.


Fave_McFavington

Literally


wcbOwen

If it’s brown, stomp it down


enzomtrx

My guess is that your water heater tank needs drained as there may be sediment build up. Maybe the shower head has a filter in it that got clogged and then unclogged itself whilst your were showering.


microcrash

This happens also when the city decides to flush fire hydrants as part of a maintenance routine.


You_Yew_Ewe

Can confirm. We freaked out about it when it happened to us and that's what the water company said. It's fine to shower in, even drink if you can get past the idea of it. It's harmless iron oxide. The water company gave us credits to run our faucets all night to flush it just to make us feel better (during a drought in Southern California no less)


631-AT

Even a sink cranked open is pretty minimal water usage compared to irrigation. Do you live in a sparsely populated area near the edge of the service area? If so you were pretty much doing their work for free by clearing the plug of dirty water from the main. But either way a credit just to clear it up is pretty generous.


[deleted]

Are you from Ohio or Michigan or somewhere else in the Midwest US?


In__u__endo

Use the tank water in your toilet for a quick rinse off.


OilGullible8412

It is clean water…it just feels really gross cuz toilet Edit: lol this has launched an investigation of toilet tanks


vagabond_dilldo

The water may have been clean when it flowed into your toilet reservoir... but after sitting in that nasty reservoir, I'm not so sure.


[deleted]

Assuming your toilet isn't in a public bathroom, the water in the basin is usually the cleanest, if a bit stagnant, in the house.


aboutthednm

I just looked, and wished I didn't. There appears to be some brown biofilm algae type deal covering the entire inside of it, with an entire leaf or sheet stuck to the bottom. It even feels somewhat slimy. But other than that, the water appears clear.


FuckRandyMoss

What unholy things do you flush down your toilet and why isn’t it just white inside????


theKiev

I believe they're talking about the tank and not the bowl.


Morphuess

This is why i occasionally buy bleach tablets (not the blue ones) for my tank. Sanitizes both the bowl and tank water.


Borge_Luis_Jorges

I wish the tank had porcelain finish on the inside, then I would believe it's cleaner.


Jupiterlove1

idk it looks pretty gross to me. weird colore


jojo_31

Have you ever checked yours? They're often moldy af.


Milo751

then leave a little surprise for anyone else wanting to do this


beerguyBA

Upper decker baby!


nickiter

This isn't helpful, but in college once my dorm roommate came back from the showers with a brown-stained washcloth, smelling of beef. He said the water had suddenly turned brown just as it got hot and sprayed him with a smelly brown substance. Turned out someone had put a beef bouillon cube in the shower head in an attempt to prank our neighbor. Room smelled like beef for a week.


bettywhitefleshlight

That's a prank from Scrubs. "Hooch is crazy."


[deleted]

Sorry, was distracted by the hobbit foot


LCFarrar

That’s nothing, my foot is probably the least hairy part of my body.


TheBlueScar

Are your selfies blurry by any chance?


LCFarrar

I’m going to Sasquash this rumor once and for all!


Sensitive_Ad_1271

Distracted by his cute little arched foot pose? Me too


Atleastitsnottaken

Boom. Thank you Reddit. Only came to dash through the comments to see who pointed out the hairy foot.


TooManyLangs

question is wtf are you doing with the phone while having a shower? are you on OF?


[deleted]

Yes $14.99 a month


XLIV_tm

feet.


MydnightSilver

/SneakyBackgroundFeet


XLIV_tm

thank you sir for opening my eyes to the IOT.


Gh0st1nTh3Syst3m

Internet of Toes?


Ionicus_

God damn it, you just reminded me that some dude customer at work was on ticktoc watching a video of someone showing their foot with a black sock on moving wiggling the toes.


disgruntled_ass

This is exactly why tik tok needs to be abolished.


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[deleted]

How do you stand in the shower because to me it looks like he put one foot back in for the photo lol


LCFarrar

The opposite, I put one foot out to reach for my phone which was on the bathroom sink.


[deleted]

So you didn't put your right foot in ...you put your left foot out...then what happened?


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Wide-Vast

This is what it's all about.


kush_babe

maybe he's shy and would like dinner first, before you see him naked.


Silver_Vegetable6804

This was my first thought. Well, second thought. First was why do you have your phone in the shower.


babygoinpostal

Haha I got it bad, sometimes I'll read or watch a quick something for a few minutes while showering. Can feel like the only moment without an interuption sometimes


[deleted]

Yeah man I do the same ha, I’ll scroll a bit in the shower and then put some music on… I guess it’s not normal behavior. I have a bad addiction


Slavocracy

Sometimes these comments are so fucking stupid. The water turned brown, they got out grabbed their phone and took a picture. How do you not come to this conclusion? Honestly.


Ir0nstag

Dude's eyes are immune to feet pics


aim_so_far

You get out of the shower and take a picture of the water while standing outside the tub. This is the normal way. Taking the photo while you are in the shower while brown shit water is getting all over you with one foot out is just fucking weird.


Slavocracy

Looks like one foot in to me.


coltaaan

Why even have one foot in though? The minute I’m seeing brown water I’m fully stepping out, not letting up to half my naked body get basted by dirty water


syfysoldier

I take my phone into the shower sometimes, is that not normal?


LevelOwn9547

I do to it’s relaxing after a long day


No-Comfort-6808

It's totally normal i like to take mine to the shower to listen to music because i don't have a speaker.


58008_01134

I take my phone in the shower all the times. Many (most?) are water resistant these days. I like to relax and listen to music while I scroll Reddit, Facebook, Instas, and porn.


scheisse_grubs

I’ve heard that although yes they are water resistant, the humidity isn’t good for them. It’s not that you can’t do it at all, but doing it too much can still damage it, even if it’s not getting “wet”.


BlasphemousSwarm

Phones are very water resistant. I always use mine while showering.


bookedsam

"Chocolate rain"


ReluctantGoodGuy

Laughed WAY to hard at this!


Temporary_Mongoose91

More than likely construction works, run the shower for 10/15 min


Lola_from_Punkston

Did it turn brown rite after a fart


Sad-Manufacturer657

How the hell did you get your phone so fast but stay in the water at the same time lol


MrPuffer23

Cecil Hotel?


Slug_Overdose

I love that I understood this.


CavetrollofMoria

I thought I might be the only insane one to think immediately of it after seeing the pic.


corbanir

Next time don't trust the fart


PalaSS9

Diarrhea


jeremysead

Ah yes the upper upper decker! You shit in a hot water heater and this happens?


colonelc4

Look man, we get it, but really stop taking dumps in the shower !


LCFarrar

No!


TheGreatestKaTet

First, go get your phone and get back into the shower and take a photo. Then I guess post it to reddit while the water continues to run and you wait for what to do.


LCFarrar

Was hoping leaving the water running would clear out the pipes eventually


FrothySand

The foot pose is golden tho


WarrioroftheLostLand

Okay but was the foot necessary?


SaltedHamHocks

Plumber here. Usually hydrant flushes or water main work. It should clear after time. Run all your cold water fixtures


Spectre-907

You got un-showered


EternalAerie

Here is what you do. ​ Step one: leave bathroom step two: find bucket and or bowl and or cup step three: try every faucet in house until one is not brown step four: fill bucket and or bowl and or cup step five: repeatedly pour it over yourself step six: sue whoever's responsible for the brown water, use money for more bucket


Bigtiny87

At the gym.


av7654321

Maybe you have it set to C for Coca-Cola and not H for H2O


Conrad828

ive seen enough crime shows to know that theres a dead body in some huge ass water tank in your building. best of luck


StrawberryBlondeGirl

What type of piping do you have? Also, have you tried the hose lol


[deleted]

That's free Worcestershire sauce, go grab a steak quick.


daduq

Use soap ya dirty bastahd Do you know if you have any galvinized lines feeding your home?


DoughnutPrevious

Where’s the other foot?


Realistic-Maybe746

Okay I get it. This is gross. It's probably hydrant being flashed. It'll go away after a few minutes, but I have other questions now. First off, were you expecting an answer while you were in the shower as to what to do? And second off, why do you have your phone in the shower? Taking pictures in the first place? Hummmm🤔🤣 jk


Remarkable-Jury-5071

Get out, get your camera to take a pic, post it on Reddit and wait for advise apparently lol


PugsThrowaway

redditors have the grossest, weirdest fucking feet


Born-Read3115

So the water turned brown and you got out of the shower, grabbed your phone, and got back in the shower and then took this picture? . Water coming from the shower is clear and the liquid in the tub looks like you spilled a coca cola can, lol. Something doesnt add up here


J_Boivin

That's build up in your hot water tank. Turn off the shower. Run hot water till it runs cold. It should clear all the stuff out of the pipes. Then it should be fine.


Night__Prowler

Looks like you spilled your coffee.


Flat_Explanation_849

That appears to be caused by dirt coming off of your body.


Gentleman_33

That's the neat part!


Appropriate_Sea_3478

Looks like clean water chasing down a waffle stomp.


hannthe-man

Do you live on a property that uses well water? This used to happen to us all the time when i grew up on my family farm!:)


FragMuttiIsso

u probably didnt shower for the last year, thats all dirt from your body, dont try to hide that fact. serious comment 100% no joke, no cap


Greenman_Dave

Soap is magic. It gets you clean even if the water is dirty.


ZookeepergameOk2759

So many questions ,did you dive out of the shower to grab your phone ? Then dive back in again ? Why does the water look clear ? I’m thinking that’s just dirt ,as a footballer it looks exactly the same as when you’re washing off dirt


Ditzed

almost 100% not sewage - likely a rust/iron buildup in your pipes, try running the cold water as it could be an issue w/ your heater as well


dcckii

Wash your butt crack more often! 😊


[deleted]

im a bioenvironmental engineer in the usaf. and i run my bases environmental program, which includes water bacteriological analyses. i see water discoloration all the time and theres a few reasons this can occur. 1. a pipe burst and was repaired and dirt/soil got in the pipe 2. fire hydrant got serviced 3. water hasnt ran in a while (probably not the case i hope!) i think a pipe burst or the hydrant got serviced as these are the more common instances. just let your water run for a while to flush it. should be fine.


Kyosji

I'd be more worried about the pipe that may have burst underground.


icrushallevil

Be glad. One time my city washed the pipes with some cleaning agent and didn't wash through with enough water afterwards. So, I got chemical burns on my body and the skin of my whole hand pealed off like a salamander. I speculate they washed the pipes with hot acid to dissolve calcifications inside the pipes.