Hydro Crews Making Progress
Prince George, B.C. – BC Hydro says it is making progress in restoring service to the thousands of customers who have been without electricity 
(At right, light standard leans at Watrous and 4th)
“We have extra crews coming in from other areas of the province” says BC Hydro spokesperson Bob Gammer.
He says there are still 1,645 customers in the Prince George region who remain without service, but that is a major improvement to the many thousands who were in the dark when the storm initially hit Saturday afternoon.
“Hopefully, the extra personnel will help speed up the work” says Gammer. Right now, BC Hydro is estimating power will be restored to all by 11 tonight, however, he says some may have to wait a little longer.
Repair crews worked 16 hours straight, at which point they had to take the required 8 hour break, some were heading back to work late this afternoon.
“We would encourage customers to check the BC Hydro website if they are able to, in order to have the latest information on service resumption.” says Gammer,
Comments
Thanks hydro crew!! Back on the grid :)
Not sure that I’m entirely thankful.
Early Saturday afternoon we had a powerline go down as well as a transformer. These two separate incidents were reported to BC Hydro’s Power-Outage hotline consecutively, identifying exact locations.
BC Hydro was out and addressed the down powerline restoring power to part of the neighborhood. 30 hours later BC Hydro teams returned to fix the transformer which took approximately 6 minutes, restoring power to the balance of the neighborhood.
Now I can understand that down lines would be a priority for these teams, but when you have two incidents that were less than 500 ft from one another why would you fix one pack your team up and not return for another 30 hours.
Perhaps BC Hydro should take some of their budget to re-examine and improve the coordination efforts of their workers in the field when there is a large scale power-outage in the community to create some efficiency’s. It may just cut some of the copious hours and stresses on the teams having to respond to these calls.
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