We had a little blip in the electricity supply yesterday afternoon

a two hour twenty five minute blip actually.
The conditions outside did nothing to placate as time went by, winds gusting to 68k with -32 to -35 chills.

I did not bother calling the Hydro plant [don’t like bothering them] but after the first hour I called a couple of people to see if any information was at hand, no information there, in one case not for the want of them trying.

I did not bother calling the toll free outage line that Hydro has… no help there when it is an unscheduled outage.

I then called the Hydro office in Goose Bay and was told by a friendly lady that power should be back in half an hour or so, they had a unit down and the crew was working on repairing it.

After an hour and a half I dragged the emergency generator outside and fired it up. Hooked it up to an electric heater and was in the process of hooking it up to the furnace when the power came back up.

So the question has to be asked again, in times like this and in conditions like this who do people call for information???????????

Whose responsibility should it be to give out reasonably accurate informed information? It’s not like Hydro has not been asked to get something going on this

Or do we just site back and hope for the best, in the mean time the temperatures inside homes are dropping, business are in the dark about what measures to take, surely it is not difficult to have a person and a telephone number designated for people to call. I don’t think it reasonable that the council office or the media have to be bothered with Hydro update calls, wake up Hydro management and get off your fat arses.

And I wonder when the community will get an update on how many generators are available now, that is twice in two weeks we have had a generator down with repairs needed. Is it the same generator both times, has the first generator been repaired, do we now have two generators down or are all up and in operational condition.

Sure a pleasure to see clear blue with a tinge of red over the hills as the sun rises this morning. Another pleasing sight is to see the smoke from the chimneys going almost vertical, been awhile seeing that for sure.