There’s a massive power outage in Ottawa in the wake of yesterday’s storm.
Too bad we aren't all driving EVs.
Suckers standing in line in the rain.
Bells Corners "free" charging station. 🤣 A million dollars worth of Teslas with no place to go. pic.twitter.com/sREbS1g1FK— Will not go quietly. (@ennerut) May 22, 2022
Would Prinz Dummkopf have made a similar statement had those storms been in western Canada? I think we know the answer to that.
L – The lights are out in Ottawa ? Usually, the lights are on in gov’t. but there is nobody home.
Maybe, Justinflation can create some electricity by combing his hair ?
There was a storm and now no electricity for sump pumps to drain the swamp in Ottawa. Pity !
A good opportunity to catch up on their reading …
No laughing matter. I tracked the radar, and if you know how they color code the severity of the storm, you know… Green, Yellow, Orange, Red… Well a PURPLE cell came right over my neighborhood, and the streets looks like a warzone. Trees down everywhere including my next door neighbor’s back yard. Another neighbor lost shingles off of his roof.
Somehow, I came through it unscathed, and so far, my lights flickered, but stayed on. I expect as things get reconnected, I should lose my electricity soon enough, but only for a short while.
Having said all that, I do agree. People thinking about getting EV’s should give this a serious rethink. As more EV’s come on-line, we can expect more demands on the electric grid, causing brown-outs and rolling blackouts, and you won’t need a storm either. Is this the future we can expect from the great reset?
No gasoline or electricity.
This has been their goal all along.
And no, I am not being hyperbolic… this explains their illogical resistance to nuclear and hydro power, too. Global Warming is just a front to destroy independent freedoms and weaken the strength of the citizenry to fight back against their tyranny.
Gas stations in Vancouver are disappearing at an alarming rate.
Not sure if it’s environMENTAL disruption or if soaring property and business taxes make them uneconomical. I believe the land lots are required to be empty for a long period of time.
When the power goes out there is also no gas unless you have a farm and your own hand pump supply. The OPP in the Westport area had to drive to Kingston to get gas for their vehicles. Looks like even the police don’t have an emergency source in that area.
There is or should be gas in your vehicle. Most people have a few jerry cans of gas. If you don’t, you are a dummy.
My tank is always full, even at today’s prices. You never know when you will need it.
I keep mine at 3/4 minimum. You might want to inform me just how to keep jerry cans of gas in a two bedroom condo. How long will one tank of gas last if the power is out for a week or two? We really live in a fools paradise. In just one day the police had to drive 45 minutes to get gas. How about ambulances etc that do not have on site fuel storage? ‘If and when there is total collapse no one will be adequately prepared.
Hoarder! Hoarder!!
Come on VOWG … don’t tell me you don’t rent a storage unit … where you keep the bodies of all the native children you’ve slaughtered? Surely you can keep a can or two there?
I keep two 20L gas cans in the garage, fill them up every fall for the winter snowblower/power outages and treat them with Stabil(TM) so they last for the year. If there is any left over in the fall I just fill my car up on the way to refill the tanks. 40L will keep my inverter generator going for a couple of weeks, running for an hour or two every 8 hours to keep the fridge going, will also power the house but not the high voltage demands like the water heater and heat pump. If I need to leave the area it will fill up my tank, which I don’t let fall below 1/2. A full tank will take me 1,000 Km. There are a lot of quotes about “piss poor planning”, most of which seem to apply for Ottawa.
I ain’t doin that in a two bedroom condo.
From riding in outback areas where the riding it’s usually best I learned to never let my fuel go below 1/2. I do this with my car as well.
VOWG, I think I’ll adopt your 3/4 minimum rule. I too have a 2-BR condo.
watch for gas thieves
Yup. I didn’t go anywhere yesterday except to my next door neighbor’s back yard to buck up a big portion of box elder (or Manitoba maple) that had come down. Cost me a chainsaw tank of fuel, but I earned three beers and a good pile of wood that I’ll turn into kindling.
Pooh-pooing electric cars may be fun, but traffic intersections without power can be murderous when assholes in SUV’s decide they don’t need to stop and go flying through at 60k. They are worthy of hot lead injections.
These outages should be a warning to most to up their emergency preparedness while staying the fck home, but instead they try to drive to Tim Horton’s to get coffee because they have no power at home. Or they just wait for “the government to do something” and put Humpty back together again.
I stop, and I make sure the other guy stops before I go again.
You can store gasoline. You can’t store electricity.
Kate…
Exactly…
Unfortunately most people do not realize that gas has a shelf life and if the proper stabilizer is not used when storing it your octane level, well, it isn’t quite what it was.
I store my emergency electricity in my generator.
When the storm went through, the Queen of Harrington was probably hiding under his cold, lonely bed clutching his crusty sock collection.
I feel sorry only for those who voted against the loons in the Liberal and NDP parties.
NDP and Liberal voters and those too lazy and stupid to vote at all can suck it up and suffer in silence.
No, these delusional a-holes aren’t silent about anything. When their own stupid policies turn out bad, they just blame Harper.
As I explained to my 10 year old grandson, this is how the global warmers want you to live.
The Coquihalla being shut down a few weeks was all the BC government needed to start controlling the gas supply…
“The order is in effect until December 1, 2021 to make fuel available for essential vehicles, and so the public is limited to 30 litres per visit to the pump:”
We just went through a period where you needed government approval to eat in a restaurant. The government saying who can and cannot buy gasoline is now a totally reasonable fear.
And, as was not widely reported, the “Coke” got back as quickly as it did because of the TransMountain Pipeline crews who were on site with heavy equipment and went into overdrive getting supplies to communities such as Merritt and helping repair the roads.
What we really need to do to save der planet is to convert all those electrical utility service trucks with the cranes and the manbaskets to electricity.
Always keep cash in the house as well. Even if the power is out you can still buy stuff. When the tornadoes went through Ottawa several years ago I was able to buy food and other essentials from store owners that were still in their shops. I got some good deals to.
Just a comment on the people in Ottawa. On my street neighbors were out right after the storm with chainsaws cutting up the downed trees. Other neighbors were right behind stacking wood along the curb. The whole street was cleared up before nightfall. The next morning there was a guy with an old beater pickup collecting logs, most likely for firewood.
derecho
https://climate.weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?site=CASKR&year=2022&month=5&day=21&hour=15&minute=54&duration=2&image_type=PRECIPET_RAIN_WEATHEROFFICE
Weather summary
for Ontario and the National Capital Region
issued by Environment Canada
at 11:35 p.m. EDT Sunday 22 May 2022.
Discussion.
A derecho, which is a widespread long-lived windstorm associated
with a line of thunderstorms, developed near Sarnia late Saturday
morning and tracked northeastward over Southern Ontario, crossing
Ottawa Saturday afternoon. Damaging wind gusts were reported over a
large swath of Southern Ontario as the severe thunderstorms raced
through.
There have been eight fatalities reported as a result of the strong
winds with this line of thunderstorms. There was also extensive
damage to trees, power lines and buildings. There were also
overturned cars reported as well as widespread power outages.
More than 350,000 customers were without power from this storm
Saturday. Power outages continue in many areas tonight.
The following is a summary of peak wind gusts observed with this
line of thunderstorms in kilometres per hour:
Kitchener – Waterloo Airport 132
Ottawa International Airport 120
Toronto Pearson International Airport 120
Toronto Buttonville Airport 110
Brantford Airport 104
Uxbridge 100
Elora 99
Ottawa Central Experimental Farm 93
Gatineau 90
Oshawa Airport 89
Toronto Island Airport 89
Trenton 83
Guelph 83
We at Environment and Climate Change Canada would like to thank all
those who have taken time to send reports when safe to do so.
Reports such as pictures and videos can be sent to Environment and
Climate Change Canada by emailing onstorm@ec.gc.ca or tweeting with
the hashtag #ONStorm.
Please note that this summary may contain preliminary or unofficial
information and does not constitute a complete or final report.
End/OSPC
Political correctness costs lives.
I belive there are now about 10 people killed by falling limbs and trees. How many of those trees were rejected for removal by local government Greenies?