Vancouver Island goes offline
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Everything went black yesterday here on Vancouver Island, BC, location of p2pnet’s luxurious central HQ.
Localised brown-outs and black-outs are a standard part of life here in the principality. But late yesterday afternoon, everything went down everywhere south of Ladysmith, leaving close to 200,000 people in the dark.
“A transmission circuit failure created a black out which stretched from Ladysmith south to Victoria,” says News 1130, going on:
“It began at around 6:00 pm.
“Ted Olynyk with BC Hydro says it was one of the largest he’s seen that wasn’t weather related.”
The giant marine propellers installed all along the edge of the island from north to south to stop it drifting away to Japan, stopped from Bamfield down (red dots), causing the northern end to start rotating slowly towards the mainland.
However, power was restored after about two hours, narrowly averting disaster.
News 1130 – Massive power outage on south end of Vancouver Island, October 12, 2008
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October 13th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
re http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17295 story, there was a paragraph that I did not understand:
“The giant marine propellers installed all along the edge of the island from north to south to stop it drifting away to Japan, stopped from Bamfield down (red dots), causing the northern end to start rotating slowly towards the mainland.”
what does that mean?
regards, gladys
October 13th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
its a joke
October 13th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
lol
October 13th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
If we drift any further to the west BC Ferries is going to raise rates to get off this rock.