The advisory affected the local food industry, forcing supermarkets and restaurants to stop selling produce which couldn't be safely washed, and causing the majority of the city's many coffee shops to close.
Although no dangerous bacteria levels were observed, the water was still considered unclean and unsafe to drink, wash vegetables or brush teeth with, without boiling it first for at least 1 minute.
As the low pressure systems were slowly replaced by an Arctic ridge, temperatures on November 25 dipped to −12 °C (10 °F) at Vancouver International Airport and the cities of Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley were hit with a series of heavy snowstorms.
[1] The short burst of heavy snow produced long traffic delays and widespread school closures.
Three weeks later on December 14 came the Hanukkah Eve windstorm, breaking and uprooting around 10,000 trees in Stanley Park next to downtown Vancouver.