N&LH have a scheduled power outage for Nain today, 3 to 4:30 pm weather permitting. Reason for the outage; to upgrade the power plant, [snicker snicker].

Seems they had a dry run at the outage this morning. Some time around 3 am the power went out. At 4:15 I was up out of bed preparing for the day in the dark. This meant getting the candles and lamps out, placing them strategically around so no one trips over anything before first light.

Next job was to re position the generator and get it going, fortunately, while in the bathroom, the power came back on at 4:30 am.

Temperatures were in the -18 range with clear calm conditions.

Outages are on the increase so one can be forgiven for thinking that maybe things are under a great deal of stress [both human and mechanical] over at the hydro plant. We had 4 out of five generators up before this morning, how many now?