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yesterday morning, shortly after the work day started, a major fire broke out in underground power substation, knocking out power to a large swath of the downtown core. while my office was unaffected, leah was left at home all day without power. poor kid. the original estimate from bc hydro was that power was supposed to be restored by 3pm. unfortunately, when hydro crews were finally able to enter the underground cavern, they discovered the true extent of the damage, meaning the latest estimate is by 11pm tonight if we are lucky. our freezer is going to be completely thawed out, and it looks like another cold shower tomorrow. 

if you tried to reach this website yesterday, you wouldn’t have been able to gain access because the company that hosts this site is located in a building whose backup generator failed. (boo!) anyway, it seems like they have it sorted out now. 

You can get an updated view of the outage here.