Welp. Power just went out. No storms or anything, just went out. Hydro has no idea how long it will be, but at least I am not alone. There are almost 60 000 of us in the same boat!
@Fullycaffeinated Oh my gosh so many people! I'm sorry, when do they think it'll be back?
@Gelatinousrube Just checked the site again and they estimate between 0:15 and 0:30. So about an hour and a half or so.
@Fullycaffeinated Ok so 8 hours. (That's how it goes here sorry.) At least you won't lose any cold things I hope!
@Gelatinousrube They're usually pretty good with their estimates. If anything it usually comes back sooner. We'll see how it goes this time.
@Gelatinousrube Here's what the South Shore of Montréal looks like right now. Power outages are in orange.
@Fullycaffeinated Dooood that is not good!!
@Gelatinousrube According to Hydro's twitter, a bus managed to hit a pylon by the highway. About 87 000 customers are affected.
I have to ask: HOW???? They are not right by the edge of the road. The bus had to go offroad for a while.
I have to ask: HOW???? They are not right by the edge of the road. The bus had to go offroad for a while.
@Fullycaffeinated PS I finally dug up that "offset" pattern I was yammering about. I'm going to try to recreate something like this diamond to make a star around the heart I made recently. I'm inspired by Mexican art always. I think this goldenrod yarn will work :)
@Fullycaffeinated Weird, there must have been some kind of failure (transmission?). I think of this because of that bridge that was knocked down in Maryland a few months ago by a container ship.
Our last looooong outage in my neighborhood was a squirrel committing suicide in a transformer. 48 hours!! Insanity
Our last looooong outage in my neighborhood was a squirrel committing suicide in a transformer. 48 hours!! Insanity
@Fullycaffeinated Boy I hope so!!! There's a lot of ways I could bang up a "corona" but I reeeeeeeally want the offset effect 😄
@Fullycaffeinated Reading the pattern I'm realizing it's just 5 crochets together in the center. I am silly hahaha
@Gelatinousrube Update: it's now 5 am and the power isn't back. Website no longer shows an estimate for it coming back but a few thousand customers are no longer affected. Fingers crossed!
@Fullycaffeinated Oh honey no! I feel like such a prick now for being Seattle skeptical. I'm glad they're resolving it. I know everyone has their own heat thresholds but I'm glad to see it's not completely roasting there today. 🍀🍀🍀🍀
@Gelatinousrube They are now saying around 5 this afternoon...
This whole scenario is one of the things that scares me. What if it was the middle of winter and a particularly cold winter at that? If it's 40 below, and your furnace isn't running, it doesn't take that long for your house to be destroyed and that's assuming that your family finds some other place to stay warm.
For that reason, I acquired a generator, and several large gas cans full of gas, with stabilizer so I can sit on it for a few years and it'll still turn a motor over. Because I don't want to completely waste it if there's no emergency, I use it to mow the lawn and snow blow as well.
I was living in Ottawa in the summer of 2003 when the whole Pacific Northwest power grid went down. The whole climate was new to me, very very warm compared to what I'm used to, and the grid was down for quite some time. It was pretty bad in the summer, but incomparable to the winter.
For that reason, I acquired a generator, and several large gas cans full of gas, with stabilizer so I can sit on it for a few years and it'll still turn a motor over. Because I don't want to completely waste it if there's no emergency, I use it to mow the lawn and snow blow as well.
I was living in Ottawa in the summer of 2003 when the whole Pacific Northwest power grid went down. The whole climate was new to me, very very warm compared to what I'm used to, and the grid was down for quite some time. It was pretty bad in the summer, but incomparable to the winter.
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@sj_zero @Gelatinousrube If it was winter, at least I could put the food in the fridge out on the balcony.
I went through the 1998 ice storm, thankfully we had a wood burning stove. My parents were out in the boonies and their power was out for six weeks. They had a generator shipped to them from Alberta since they were sold out here.
I went through the 1998 ice storm, thankfully we had a wood burning stove. My parents were out in the boonies and their power was out for six weeks. They had a generator shipped to them from Alberta since they were sold out here.