ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ.

That guy wins the idiot of the month award.

It's so windy outside and you think standing on the wrong side of a bridge with huge waves was smart? He's lucky he didn't get carried away into the water and die. Fucking moron

power been out since 12:45 and cause is still "under investigation " :(

Worst part is across the st has power lool

Almost all of North Road lost power yesterday, it's back online now. Hastings btwn Kensington and Holdom is still without power

We had no power for 9 hours yesterday. Large parts of Nanaimo still don't have power. To make matters worse the pumping station for water is down so everyone has been told not to use water.

Something to keep in mind for anyone with an in-home water treatment system and including UV disinfection is that you aren't getting that same level of disinfection with the power out. You'd be amazed how many people forget, and then wonder why their UV system is in alarm once the power goes back on. Usually a flush with some bleach and a cleaning of the UV sleeve is enough to get back running clean.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...scue-1.4955978

"At first, I was stuck with some other people and it didn't seem like it was safe enough to cross, and I thought, 'Well, the storm is going to die down in about an hour and we'll just wait it out,'" Perry said.

He said he walked further out to get away from the break. Meanwhile, RCMP were onshore shouting for people on the pier to sprint to safety.

Everyone did, except Perry.

"I guess the police showed up to encourage the other people to run through, but I didn't know ... then I wasn't close enough to make it a make across in time," he said. "It didn't seem like it was safe enough to cross."

Eventually, a section of the pier tore away from the rest and left a gap over the ocean.

I used to sell water treatment products including whole house UV and this guy definitely knows what he is talking about

I’m still without power. 27 hours and counting. Thank you gas fireplace!

Damn.

RIP to all the trees that lost their lives :okay:

Big Ups to the Hydro crews working all day and night :fuckyea:

My area lost power at 12:55pm. I took a walk up the street and saw Hydro crews right away. They working on a section of line a tree had decided to slump over on and hug. I was wondering if we were one of the first grids to go down. I walked down toward the other end of the street and saw a firetruck blocking the street with yellow tape. Figured it might have been related to a couple of house demolitions and then I saw the snapped live wire laying on the ground.

'Oh shit'

Didn't get power till 9:45pm. About an hour later, while watching TV, I lost half the power in my suite (my building overlaps 2 grids). Suddenly I hear a loud boom just outside my building. Car alarms going off like mad. It came from the area the hydro crews has been working earlier. My fridge stayed alive for the night but my heater did not.

I'm not sure what caused the bang as I'm no expert but wouldn't be surprised if there was a surge of juice from everyone in the area turning everything on at the same time.

Hydro outage map looking like it had measles.

Mother in law is in Duncan still without power. Many gas stations had no power yesterday and are packed all day with people filling jerry cans for generators. One major highway intersection south of Duncan is still without power and is 4 way procedure. You know how that goes.

Also on Thursday 330pm my wife and kids were headed south just south of Duncan. Everyone was stopped on the highway thanks to trees coming down and another big one came down on a pickup truck 30 ft ahead.

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Yesterday was an absolute gong show getting home (Duncan) from Nanaimo. Took 5.5 hours to get home.

This morning and afternoon were better but still took over 90 minutes each way (normally a 40-50 minute drive).

Every intersection between Nanaimo and Duncan was out of power for all 3 trips and no one directing traffic.

This was early on in the adventure (well, like 1.5 hours into it). Most of the other footage of me trying to get home didn't turn out well because it got dark and my cam sucks, but there were lots more trees and debris. Or it was me stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

holy fuck has it ever been windy today

It’s getting cold at night. In Richmond they sprayed the streets with deicer. Though I feel they might have done that a little early

They are probably either doing it for insurance purpose or they are just trying to use up their contractor budget by end of year.

Wow. It's quite windy today.

a few trees were uprooted in Burnaby by Deer Lake but now it's sunny. FailFish

Thread that needle
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Snowfall warning issued

Did anyone else hear the loud claps of thunder near Lougheed Mall, on Friday morning around 11am? Positively charged cloud to ground strikes. Those suckers were loud.

Yep, I posted in No need to start a thread on Friday:

Two days after that Kobe died.
Begining of the week we found out about Coronavirus
Before that, near World War III
And Australia on fire/hail/drought.

Man this is a wacky 2020.



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The rain acted as my alarm clock this morning. Unfortunately for me, it woke me up an hour earlier than my regular alarm would. It was coming down so hard I couldn’t fall back asleep..

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Made the kids blueberry pancakes for breaky and packed them a hell of a lunch though! BrokeBack

I was awoken by loud thunder at 3:30 this morning. Drive to work was pretty bad in some parts with torrential rain.

Been sunny for so long I almost forgot you have to treat walking on the sidewalk like walking through a warzone here. Gotta watch out for the giant puddles on the road next to the sidewalk and walk strategically or a car gonna blast through and set off the puddle grenade.

Almost got doused today.