Heads up - Power flickering

[Funky_Fish14]

Just a heads up for everyone in the west end, I noticed the power is flickering in certain spots over here due to the electric storm. I was fortunate enough to be sitting at home when the halides and SEIO's died so I could flick them back on. If you can, check on yours, halides will definetly be off if it flickers, and im not sure if being turned 'on' when they are still too hot to run is bad for them.

Take care, hope tanks are well

Chris

[jvision]

I also heard that the power companies will be shutting off the power for 20-30 min intervals in pretty much every neighborhood this month to save power. Aparently, AB doesn't generate enough electricity of it's own to run home AC units!

[Funky_Fish14]

I believe we are just sending way too much of it to the US if thats the case...

The water also lost pressure for a few hours yesterday... that might just have been someone diging in their yard though(Hope it wasnt any canreefers installing geothermal chillers cause of the heat wave...)!

[TheReefGeek]

Yeah the city is has been forced into planned 1/2 hour brown outs.

Yesterday they decided rush hour would be a great time to do it! !@#$%!@#

This kind of stuff is why I am apprehensive to go to GFI outlets, especially when I travel, because if it trips and nobody switches it back on for a day or two, that can be costly!

When I re-do my electrical I think I will run both GFI & regular outlets so I can choose.

[Funky_Fish14]

Gee, thats a good call Rory!

Umm... yeah we cant be doing that in a province that supplies power to EVERYONE ELSE but itself? Thats ridiculous, number one first, no?

Lets just shut down parliment for half the day every day and see how the country runs....

I was wondering yesterday why lights were out all over the west end? I saw this a couple weeks ago too, during rush hour.

Lighting.... power companies... whats next... solar storm?

[TheReefGeek]

Lets just shut down parliment for half the day every day and see how the country runs....

ummmmm.... Better? lol

[Funky_Fish14]

Haha... possibly... im not sure if your suggesting crappy government party, or just, crappy government in general? Haha. I might agree with the latter option, but im slighty right of center myself, so conservative floats my boat a little more than liberal. Although, I wish there was more of an environmental concern with conservatives.

Chris

Edit... yeah I guess either way, likely better, haha.

[Beverly]

Our power went off around 5 p.m. Gads!!!! I thought it was going to be a replay of what happened a few summers ago, when the power went off for 4 hours one hot summer night. Had a 75g reef, a 180g oscar tank and a 110g indoor goldfish pond. We were up half the night going from tank to tank stirring the water to help oxygenate it. Luckily, this time, power was out less than a half hour.

Read in the paper this morning about the rotating black outs due to a number of factors, including two local power stations being down for maintenance and another station down for unknown reasons. Of course, there are other reasons, like the ones mentioned above, but our own power generators were off line yesterday. Who schedules maintenance during a heat wave???

Also read in the paper that California is also experiencing rotating black outs due to the high power consumption during their extremely hot heat wave. It's been 40+ C in some places down there.

IIRC, Alberta is on the same power grid as California, so there is export of power back and forth along the grid. It's the same in the East, when there was that huge power black out in ON, PQ and down into the US a couple of years back. Hahaha, those dumb Americans blamed Canada for the power disruption when it first happened, but after investigation, the problem was found to be on the American side of the border. I'm thinking Americans watch too much South Park :P

Glad I'm not in NYC where there are thousands of people who have been without for over a week. They still don't know where the problem is and don't know when power will be restored. Hate to be a reefer in that location. Heck, hate to be a anyone, reefer or not, and not have power for that long. Four hours is bad enough in this weather!

[Funky_Fish14]

Too true!

I dont mind the heat myself, but I know it makes everyone else, and all the critters, quite uncomfortable.

[saltynuts]

right now the plant at wabamum is down(no power till aug 17th boiler when down)
the highvale plant i work at has 2 units down so not so much power but still going and some main line to b.c is down too