Reporter in Sochi Told by Hotel Not to Allow Water to Touch Her Face

[Are_grits_groceries]

Stacy St. Clair @StacyStClair
My hotel has no water. If restored, the front desk says, "do not use on your face because it contains something very dangerous." #Sochi2014


Stacy St. Clair @StacyStClair
Water restored, sorta. On the bright side, I now know what very dangerous face water looks like. #Sochi #unfiltered

Gak!

[NightWatcher]

1. looks like they pumped it in from West Virginia

Is very cheap, you no drink now.

[Blue_Tires]

2. She ought to bottle a sample and bring it back to the US to have it tested....

Might be fun to see what the lab says...

[MineralMan]

3. Welcome to Sochi! Drink water at your peril.

I foresee a negative experience for many there.

[lame54]

4. Did they move the olympics to West Virginia?

[Fumesucker]

5. In Soviet Russia water washes with you!

[Brickbat]

6. Now that's a lot of giardia.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Ugh. They look like urine samples.

[LiberalEsto]

8. This might explain things

[dipsydoodle]

9. Looks like rust whatever from a previously unused system.

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[Retrograde]

12. My water gets like that when I've been gone for a while

iron buildup in old pipes: running the water for a minute will flush it out.

Of course, iron oxide is the best-case scenario.

[Cleita]

10. If our billionaires, Kochs, etc. succeed in taking over this nation for

their profit at the exclusion of everyone else, this is what the rest of us have to look forward to in the future from our already crumbling infrastructure.

[onethatcares]

11. and this is why

The Russians use vodka for every purpose

[hatrack]

13. In Russia, water drink YOU!

Yum!

[lpbk2713]

14. Looks like melted yellow snow.

I'm glad I'm not there.