Oh what a night.

The household was just in process of hitting the sheets just after 10 last evening when the power went out. Me [I can spell me] having already hit the sheets woke up immediately, funny one does that eh?

Thinking that it would be a short outage and not being able to do anything about it you try and sleep, and have some thoughts for the Hydro guys who have to go out in the weather.

Speaking of the weather, it was fairly cold with -22 temps, the wind gusting to 89k giving wind chills of -39. So no surprise that when time passes and no re boot of the power it became somewhat disconcerting.

Very little sleep for most of us, the west wind hitting the house did not help either.

Just after 1 AM the power came back up, there was another short blip about ½ hour later but since then all has been copacetic, touch wood. The primary school is closed this morning, not sure if that is power outage related.

Earlier grandma and I had a conversation with the GD down Ontario. Things at the flying school have not been going that well. GD and other students thinking of quitting, the school is under a funding cut off threat, some students being idiots and making it hard on others, seems a very unsettled situation.
Last week I phoned the student liaison person at the school to talk about the situation with GD and the school. Was very helpful with dealing with GD but not a lot of information re the funding cut off.

The situation is putting a lot of stress on students and GD is also very home sick, we and others are encouraging GD to stick it out at least until it is clear the school will or won’t close.

With this school being the only one that qualifies for funding under GD funding program things will be up in the air as to where First Nations and Inuit can get there pilots license if it closes. Hope all will work out for the positive in the end.

Hydro update:

Seems like the outage [not official] was caused by a distribution problem. A line snapped at a junction of a transformer or something like that. Luck would have it that there was a line crew in town so it was located and fixed quickly, who knows what the end result would have been if they had to come in from Goose Bay, [note to self ,must remember to but back up generator, yeah right!].
With the winds up to 74 I would hazard a guess that that is the reason the school is closed.