‘Tis the Season for Power Outages

I’m sure everyone is well aware of the storms that have been hitting the west coast of Canada but the past couple weeks have been particularly bad.

We’ve been without power at work a few times in the past couple of weeks (not so good for a technology company) and there’s a lot of trees down around town.  My parents have been without power for 3 days now but I guess that’s the price you pay for living in a green area.  Luckily I live in a fairly well-connected (power-wise) part of town that isn’t that prone to power loss even if the rest of the city is.
The good thing about snowy conditions is 4×4’n.  We went out the other day about an hour up Vancouver Island and quickly ran into a lot of snow and downed trees.  Fortunately there was a land cruiser with a winch powerful enough to move things out of the way.  Pretty fun day, definitely a benefit of living on the island.
Who knows how long this is going to last, I suspect it’ll clear up soon and reports are calling for rain throughout the next wee.  No white Christmas or birthday for me.