Turbulent Winds
The winds around the Burnaby mountain area were so bad yesterday. First, I was kept awake until 3 by the constant howling. When I finally fell asleep, I was abruptly woken up at 6am when my feet froze up. The winds had taken a bunch of power lines down and my building and the entire locality around the Lougheed Town Center was out of power.
Civilization just comes to a halt with a blackout. I couldn’t shower (electric heater) or groom myself, couldn’t make breakfast or lunch (electric cookers) or even see myself (sun rises at 9am and sets at 4pm). All of the stores around my place were closed. Just think of the lost opportunities.
Stanley park is in a state of chaos. There are fallen trees everywhere with power lines below them. There’s no power yet, so the place is pitch dark. A dangerous place to be.
Apparently, even MSFT [[check out their new spiffy homepage]] was shut down today due to winds in the Redmond area.
[...] About a month back, I had written about winds that had knocked out power in my area. Well, the last two weeks have been hell for us here in Vancouver. Last week, there was heavy snowing that lead to a closure of the school. In about 45 minutes, the condition had become so bad that they had to close all roads leading to and from the mountain (SFU is atop a mountain.) [...]