BTW, this is what the winds did last night to a house beside a friend of ours in Sooke on Vancouver Island.
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Power failures pick the worst time, without fail
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mickeyf
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Ouch! Hope the building was the only thing damaged - not the inhabitants.
We lost power from about 8:00PM ish to 1:00 AM Ish, and a few branches came down with no damage. No big deal.
My (incomplete and perhaps erroneous) understanding of the power outage problem is largely that when North America started to become electrified, it was simplest to string wires on power poles, and even if someone thought about putting them underground the insulation technology wasn't there yet. If you look at newish subdivisions they pretty much all have underground electrical supply, and any power failures tend to be limited to somewhere outside that local system and feeding in. Switching over to underground at this point apparently costs more than the cost of fixing broken lines after every storm, but perhaps with increasing weather events that calculation will be re-visited.
We lost power from about 8:00PM ish to 1:00 AM Ish, and a few branches came down with no damage. No big deal.
Yup. After 20 some years in Victoria with a short break elsewhere, we left for further up Island. Vic was getting to be too much like GTA traffic (and driver!) wise. But other parts of the Island are ...Quite tolerable...
My (incomplete and perhaps erroneous) understanding of the power outage problem is largely that when North America started to become electrified, it was simplest to string wires on power poles, and even if someone thought about putting them underground the insulation technology wasn't there yet. If you look at newish subdivisions they pretty much all have underground electrical supply, and any power failures tend to be limited to somewhere outside that local system and feeding in. Switching over to underground at this point apparently costs more than the cost of fixing broken lines after every storm, but perhaps with increasing weather events that calculation will be re-visited.
Well we're back on now after three days off, next storm tonight. No damage this time but previous one we had a tree down on the shop. Roof busted up a bit but still water tight. It just missed the freshly painted cab going onto sweeties truck, don't know why I moved it 10 feet but sure glad I did.
How big a set of batteries in the backup?