Manitoba sent all available linesmen to help out. I hope things recover soon. 

Brent D
27-5
Lake Winnipeg

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> On Dec 25, 2013, at 9:31 AM, Michael Brown <m...@tkg.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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> 
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> 
> 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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