Meltdown Monday 4/7

This morning, we woke up to tap water looking something like this:

Of course, this revelation wasn't made until Jesse went to fill his waterbottle before leaving work...after I put a full load of laundry into the washing machine, hit start, and shut the lid. 

My (new) washer at home has this cool cancel button where you hold it for 3 seconds and then it automatically drains the water.  (However, this feature is NOT helpful when you find out your septic system is plugged, so you cancel the washer, and then water starts coming up through the tub drain. But that's a story for another day.)  

This washer is the model where you crank the knob and pull it to start the load; pretty standard. There are three settings: fill, rinse, and spin. After about two hours, I came to the conclusion that there was no way I was going to get the water out of the machine naturally...and the machine was refusing to restart.

I then grabbed small handfuls of laundry out of the machine, wrung them out, put them in a hamper, and then dumped them out into the shower.

Since the clothes were still saturated with murky water, once the water returned to semi-clear, I turned the shower on and rinsed the clothes for about 20 minutes. There they will remain until we can fix the washer or someone needs to take a shower - whichever comes first.