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The corporation’s website was mostly useless all weekend, crashing under heavy traffic volumes, making communications more difficult. Article content Darryl Dyck / Canadian Press This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
NEW SURVIVOR RISK OF RAIN 2 SEPTEMBER UPDATE SERIES
One long-time hydro worker called it the worst series of weather-related power failures he had seen in 35 years. About 400 hydro workers were dispatched to fix broken lines and other broken infrastructure. Hydro, the always-controversial Crown corporation that provides the province with most of its hydroelectric power.
All day Sunday, fairly or not, people sniped at B.C.
NEW SURVIVOR RISK OF RAIN 2 SEPTEMBER UPDATE PLUS
Power still eluded tens of thousands of homes, plus businesses and service providers. For two information junkies, this was hard. This meant: no Blue Jays baseball, no TV sports or entertainment of any kind, no web-surfing of any kind at home. Or it was until the next morning, when we discovered the television, Internet and telephone were still out.
We spent the evening inside, talking, and we went to bed early, for a change. This weekend’s wild, west coast weather event seemed tolerable, too, until darkness fell Saturday, and my wife returned home with reports of blocked streets, more fallen trees, downed power lines and yahoos driving through intersections - 40 traffic signals in the city were kaput - without stopping. It was early and awful outside, so the streets were almost empty no problem arriving on time at my teammate’s front door. Extra socks and towels, tossed in the bowls bag. Long underwear, rain pants, hooded rain jacket. New to the sport and hopelessly naive, I’d believed the wily club vet who had said the games always go on, rain or shine, sonny boy, without fail. Interesting, but damn: I had things to do outside, some lawn bowling games to play. High-wind gusts whipped water sideways, giving our bedroom windows a spray, sounding like a car wash. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Shane MacKichanīy seven a.m. Here on the west coast, the summer has been exceptionally dry, with wildfires burning all around. We’d been thirsting for rain - for the relief it would bring to the grass and the trees and the city’s shrinking reservoirs, for peace of mind.
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