Hurricane Fiona

[dapaterson]

"Hurricane Irving"

 

[Good2Golf]

that would be a bad hurricane…

“…and in some of the hardest-hit regions, slower dial-up internet at possibly Fredericton levels.”

Fredericton bad!!!

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Be glad your not out in it

 

[brihard]

My family’s safe but most of Cape Breton got hit very hard. Most of NS is without power, tons of physical damage to infrastructure, trees, etc. I don’t expect we’ll hear much out of Cape Breton today. Tons of power utility trucks on their way in.

 

[dapaterson]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573479400313593857

 

[brihard]

Port aux Basques is a town in southwest Newfoundland and is the gateway to the island via the ferry to Cape Breton. It’s been/is being devastated by high waves and storm surge. Houses gone, even a two story apartment building swept out to sea. RCMP report two women swept out to sea with one rescued…

Any word on CAF moving yet?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573693894507782144

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573642883697188869

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573659603417579522

 

[NavyShooter]

We survived well here in Windsor Junction - 14 hours without power, and now back online again.

Generator and chainsaw available on call for someone who needs them. Send me a message.

NS

 

[Weinie]

We survived well here in Windsor Junction - 14 hours without power, and now back online again.

Generator and chainsaw available on call for someone who needs them. Send me a message.

NS

My sister in Amherst lost her fence, and power, but is otherwise OK,

 

[Jarnhamar]

I heard Toronto is declaring a state of emergency.

 

[mariomike]

I heard Toronto is declaring a state of emergency.

Want to shovel my driveway this winter ?

For anyone who has never worked 9-1-1 Operations in a big city, this is how bad it can get during a snowstorm,.

New York City snowstorm

I was reading about the effect of the snowstorm on 9-1-1 response times. What happened in NYC this Christmas could happen in Canada. So, I would like to post this: "FDNY EMS has a aprox 5 hour delay to Emergencies. FDNY personal are advised not to do CPR more then 20 min due to high vol of...

army.ca

The City faces financial liability if they do not reach out for help to protect their citizens and visitors.

 

[kratz]

Debert / Colchester NS here.
We lost power at 0100hrs...and lost cable, internet and cellphone service at 0700hrs.

Finally have cell service back at 1800hrs.

One tree down on our back property line, that's our only damage.

Waiting for NSP to restore power, estimate is this Wednesday,. So 4.5 days on our backup generator.

 

[KTown Cowboy]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fiona-military-help-japan-trip-cancelled-1.6594784?fbclid=IwAR2J4FBOESKuxPZKNw2z5NuF0veOmVUCf-E5AzFb_7JdLjbav--VFmXiXv4

 

[Halifax Tar]

We just came back to modernity.

Truly speechlees with the devastation in PAB...

Standing by with warm drink, moonshine, power and a chainsaw saw if anyone needs help.

I'm in Halifax.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Military to be deployed to Nova Scotia to assist recovery after Fiona lashes region​

Military to be deployed to Nova Scotia to assist recovery after Fiona lashes region

Several houses destroyed, widespread power outages, roads washed out

www.timescolonist.com

 

[kratz]

163 hours and counting. The NEW estimate is another 77 hours before power is restored. Our generator has already burned through 1090 litres of propane. NSP, I don't want to pay for a second delivery before winter. /rant.

 

[Halifax Tar]

163 hours and counting. The NEW estimate is another 77 hours before power is restored. Our generator has already burned through 1090 litres of propane. NSP, I don't want to pay for a second delivery before winter. /rant.

NSP ... Where to start

 

[brihard]

163 hours and counting. The NEW estimate is another 77 hours before power is restored. Our generator has already burned through 1090 litres of propane. NSP, I don't want to pay for a second delivery before winter. /rant.

If it helps, this morning my brother in Cape Breton was looking at a Wednesday restoration estimate from the NSP website. He got power back mid afternoon today instead. Don't put much stock in the website or the map for those estimates.

 

[kratz]

At the start I understood and was patient. I pre-planned and thought we were ready. I even placed propane fuel reorder early, a 14 day delay for delivery. I never considered the requirement to plan for armageddon level of failure.

Frustrating. Government advice of 72 hours preparedness is a minimum. We are looking at 11 days.

Twice now, neighbour's estimates get pushed back, then NSP robo calls at 2300hrs to inform us our estimated date has been readjusted to match our neighbour's new date.

 

[Halifax Tar]

At the start I understood and was patient. I pre-planned and thought we were ready. I even placed propane fuel reorder early, a 14 day delay for delivery. I never considered the requirement to plan for armageddon level of failure.

Frustrating. Government advice of 72 hours preparedness is a minimum. We are looking at 11 days.

Twice now, neighbour's estimates get pushed back, then NSP robo calls at 2300hrs to inform us our estimated date has been readjusted to match our neighbour's new date.

Need anything brother ? Anything I can do ?

Sadly NSP is like herpes, it's for life. And it has outbreaks a few times a year.

I love the idea of taking it back, but I'm not sure that's financially feasible.

 

[NavyShooter]

We are still 3 months -ish from our whole home generator installation.

Any need for assistance by anyone? I've taken apart 5 trees for folks so far, and my 'loaner' generator is on it's 2nd house.