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Aaron

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mchan68

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Merry Christmas Aaron, and everyone else on DTS. And thanks for thinking of me. Yes, I lost power for about 24 hours, but it came back late last night. Right now, as of this writing there probably quite a few in Toronto itself still without power. Warming centers are probably still pretty full.

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Jim Warman

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Rob Ford..... what an embarrassment that waste of skin is. He beats Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann for embarassing.

 

No power outage here, but we did go from -32C to +5C in less than a day.

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Alex Bruene

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Holy Crap, the ice storm was terrible at my house!  I had so much ice on my satellite dish, that I couldn't get any high definition television for 3 days!  I was forced to watch standard definition. 

 

Levity aside, I live about an hour north of the big city.  We really only got about a centimeter of ice, and about 20 centimeters of snow, and then another centimeter of ice on top.  I threw some salt on the top layer and pulverized it with my snowblower.

 

There was substantial ice damage at work, power was out to the north, south, east and west of us, but for some unfortunate reason, we were spared the power outage, so I had to work.  On my drive in on Monday morning, power was out everywhere.  It's quite eerie to see giant blocks of apartment buildings in the dark.  Kind of reminded me of some of the scenes you see when you watch footage of Chernobyl visits.  Creepy. 

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Keith Browning

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It is indeed a bit eerie to have major areas impacted like that. When we had hurricane Sandy roll through I felt the same way. You don't realize how much power defines our way of life until it is gone and when it is gone for extended periods of time the impact is profound. Unlike a hurricane, snow and ice does come with an inherent beauty in my opinion though it creates a dangerous situation for us humans. All reminders that we really have very little control of anything. Side note - inject politics and we begin to see evidence of humans fucking up what little they do have control over.Glad to hear everyone is doing well. :thumbup:

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Alex Bruene

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Luckily, I have an 8KW back-up generator wired in to the house, so the power outage would not have effected me for too long...  Other than the fact that my wife wouldn't have been using the stove or dryer.  We would have still had heat, lights, TV, internet...  All the important stuff.

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Brad Clayton

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Lots of people in Vermont have pantry's that double as fridges in the winter. It's basically a little outcrop off the kitchen of a house that has holes in the outside to allow the winter breeze to keep everything chilled. Nifty idea if you're an off the grid type.

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Alex Bruene

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Lots of people in Vermont have pantry's that double as fridges in the winter. It's basically a little outcrop off the kitchen of a house that has holes in the outside to allow the winter breeze to keep everything chilled. Nifty idea if you're an off the grid type.

 

Around here, we call that a cold cellar.

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