Nearly 200 Power Outages Across Northern B.C.
Prince George, B.C.- Power is still out for more than 20 thousand BC Hydro customers across the province.
The single largest outage in the Prince George area is east of the Beaver Forest Service road. That outage is impacting 279 customers from Willow River to Sinclair Mills and all points in between. This is the outage that has forced Giscome Elementary School students to be sent to Blackburn Elementary for the day.
The windstorm that swept across the province last evening is the major cause of the power outages, as trees came into contact with power lines, or powerlines touched each other. There are 191 different outages from the coast to the Alberta border.
In some cases, B.C. Hydro estimates power will be restored as early as 11 this morning, but other estimates are for later this afternoon. It is possible some areas will not be back on the grid until tomorrow.
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Apparently this wind and power-outages applies to Alberta as well. They had “record” wind gusts in Edmonton, clocking in at 120 kilometres per hour.
That’s ok, nothing seamut hasn’t witnessed already⦠hmm.. oh that’s right⦠“record” means never having occurred before until now. But still this nothing seamut hasn’t seen or heard before ;-)
Extreme weather events continue to happen, just like climate scientists predicted, go figure!
That’s true, seen it before, thanks. Any records broken?
How long you lived in these parts? Asked ya that before.
Record temp for this date was back in 1968, 8.9, long before you were born most likely.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/120-km-h-winds-record-warmth-bring-thaw-to-edmonton-1.2497354
The world is ending. Next year the winds will be temps higher then the higher. Please please tell us how much time do we have left?
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