Monday morning brought yet another new adventure to the North coast, as a snow slide took out a BC Hydro Transmission tower on the main power line between Prince Rupert and Terrace, plunging the city into yet another power outage to start off the week.
The power went out at around 8:40 am and with the exception of a brief tease of lights at 9:35 stayed out until 10 am in some parts of town and until after 11 in most of the city.
The unexpected interruption meant that public schools dismissed students early on in the power outage and closed the schools for the day, much to the chagrin of students at the Independent School Annunciation which had regular classes right through until 3 pm.
And once again Rupert businesses had to make do with flashlights and more disruption to their daily schedules, while drivers tried to make sense of the four way stop rule that is supposed to come into effect at stop lights during power outages but doesn’t always work out that way.
The power went out at around 8:40 am and with the exception of a brief tease of lights at 9:35 stayed out until 10 am in some parts of town and until after 11 in most of the city.
The unexpected interruption meant that public schools dismissed students early on in the power outage and closed the schools for the day, much to the chagrin of students at the Independent School Annunciation which had regular classes right through until 3 pm.
And once again Rupert businesses had to make do with flashlights and more disruption to their daily schedules, while drivers tried to make sense of the four way stop rule that is supposed to come into effect at stop lights during power outages but doesn’t always work out that way.
And while last week we were singing the praises of the CBC as the only available source of information during the snow storm, Monday saw them join the rest of the area's media services rendered out of service due to the citywide blackout.
The BC Hydro website tracked all of the areas affected by the disruption and provided a log of sorts as to what had happened and when the power would return, which of course was of little comfort to the locals who had no power to keep their computers logged on.
BC Hydro expects that the repairs to the transmission site will take three weeks or so and is urging local residents to use only the power that they truly need around their homes and businesses.
The BC Hydro website tracked all of the areas affected by the disruption and provided a log of sorts as to what had happened and when the power would return, which of course was of little comfort to the locals who had no power to keep their computers logged on.
BC Hydro expects that the repairs to the transmission site will take three weeks or so and is urging local residents to use only the power that they truly need around their homes and businesses.
You may also notice that your clocks will be running rather fast as the back up generator is in operation, the Podunkian clocks were already running some thirty minutes ahead of time as the day was winding down, which is a good thing if your day is going rather lousy, not so good if it’s one of those days you would want to last.
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