Toronto had a cold night last night, more of an impact than normal since thousands are still without electricity. Sunday morning around 2 AM about 300,000 customers in Ontario lost power, currently about 70,000 are still waiting to have power restored. A customer means a meter, could be an apartment, house or a whole building.
In Barrie, about 100 km north of Toronto, we hit -5F last night. Makes the snow squeaky when you walk on it, sort of the sound of white styrene. Things are suppose to be back to normal by the weekend, highs around the freezing mark and power restored to everyone. I do wonder if we have become too reliant on an infrastructure that appears to be fragile. While losing power for a while in a well insulated home with a wood burning stove is inconvenient, what do 80 year old pensioners living in a 20+ floor apartment do for 5 days with no elevator, heat or water? I think Toronto can handle a few thousand people in an emergency, and they had a few this summer, but there was over half a million people affected Sunday. The news coverage called it a "massive ice storm", but the people I spoke with said about 3/8 - 1/2" of ice accumulated over a period of a few hours. Enough to down power lines, tree limbs and whole trees, but Mother Nature could have done much worse. Michael Brown Windburn C&C 30-1 Message: 3 Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:15:23 -0600 From: Frederick G Street <f...@postaudio.net> To: "Ronald B. Frerker" <rbfrer...@yahoo.com>, cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Merry Christmas to all Message-ID: <f12b5848-ae06-425e-9d36-0d1cabc51...@postaudio.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" This morning when I got up it was -17F / -27C ? that?s air temp. Windchill about 10F / 5C colder. Anyone else wanna go for bragging rights? :^) You guys down further south (including Toronto) must be freezing this year? at least we?re (more or less) used to it. Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On Dec 24, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Ronald B. Frerker <rbfrer...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Merry Christmas from a rather cold St. Louis this year; 7F this AM, rather > well below normal.
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