RIP to all the trees that lost their lives
Big Ups to the Hydro crews working all day and night
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.