[BRIEF NOTE] Blackout!
Jan. 16th, 2009 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldWhen the power went out at my place just bvefore 11 o'clock, I thought that something was wrong with the electricity. This morning, as BlogTO tells us, I found out that entire neighbourhoods had been blocked out.
Apart from being concerned for Shakespeare (Jerry's picking him up), this impacted me most directly in that the TTC was so snarled that I got to work an hour late. On the plus side, I found that my laptop screen can make a serviceable nightlight.
Toronto's west side is currently going on 5 hours without power. The Star (the only major media outlet to get the full story out early) reports that the blackout started around 10pm when there was a flood in a power facility at Dufferin & Bloor. A short-circuit there managed to leave a massive chunk of the city without electricity. We're talking Queen West to St Clair, Jane Street to Spadina, almost completely in the dark.
With temperatures dropping to nearly -30 with the windchill overnight, it was hardly the kind of evening you want to go without heating either.
Apart from being concerned for Shakespeare (Jerry's picking him up), this impacted me most directly in that the TTC was so snarled that I got to work an hour late. On the plus side, I found that my laptop screen can make a serviceable nightlight.
