Extended Power Outage

On Wednesday afternoon, western BC was hit with a powerful storm that knocked out power to over 100,000 households and businesses.

We were one of them.

Thankfully, our utility power was restored almost 21 hours after it was cut on Wednesday afternoon (12:20 PM in my system logs), but that left us with no heat for a night. Brrr. Cold.

Thursday evening was fairly boring with no Internet access, but I made good use of our treadmill and home gym while patiently waiting for the Internet service to be restored. I checked up on my router periodically, but I gave up at 11 PM and went to sleep.

I got up this morning to check my Internet service. Still nothing. I attempted to reach my server from work and finally got a response back!

Forty-eight hours and two complaints later, that is.

Our workplace was another nightmare. I recorded over twenty-five power outages from 12 PM to 4 PM on Wednesday. One computer without UPS power failed to boot up, after it rebooted itself several times in a row. The system registry had become corrupted. However, I had it up and running within a few minutes. In order to avoid such problems in the future, I placed a call to our distributor and ordered two APC 1200VA UPS units. That’ll keep my co-workers and I productive, while keeping me from pulling out excessive hair.

It’s all good for now, but Environment Canada predicts that another powerful storm is headed our way. Hopefully, we are prepared this time around.

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