[jobber]

I heard a boom and then all the power went off. Way to conserve energy...hehe hope this won't be long.

 

[ngo911]

Phew I guess I lucked out... My power is still on and I live a few blocks from you heh

 

[jobber]

Thanks a lot. Haha. Thank goodness for mobile access. All I hear is car honks and sirens. It seems like its west of joyce and extend to fraser st.

 

[eternity302]

Do you want me to come over now? I can grab some straws and we can start blowing bubbles in ur tank!

 

[gwcana]

Thanks a lot. Haha. Thank goodness for mobile access. All I hear is car honks and sirens. It seems like its west of joyce and extend to fraser st.

I also heard its from about marine to 1st

 

[jobber]

Thanks but I'm out having bubbletea in richmond now with other friends who don't have power in the 'hood.

Don't think I want any strangers coming to my house blowing anything. Haha.

 

[tony1928]

power back on here at 33rd and Fraser.

 

[Victor]

luckily it was a short one

 

[Crazy_NDN]

yup power was out in my area also, wonder what the heck it was? also heard a noise.

 

[Victor]

it's a "substation" issue, which just means there was something wrong at the BC Hydro plant. Almost all of Vancouver was out I heard

 

[neven]

many substation breakers use compressed air to blow open the lines fast, often times that is what the bang is

 

[jobber]

i did hear a big boom sound right after the lights went off.

 

[thefishwife]

at least it wasn't too long. My power was out in maple ridge on thur for 6 hours due to a car accident. I was still on holidays so my kids had to deal with it. Didn't loose a fish they did a good job.

 

[Crazy_NDN]

many substation breakers use compressed air to blow open the lines fast, often times that is what the bang is

ah never knew that, makes sense why many of use heard something in numerous areas of vancouver.

 

[Shell Dweller]

Power outage

Is there something a person should do to protect the fish if the power goes out for say 8 hours? Will this hurt the fish? Should I get a foot pump and hook up air-lines to all my tanks?

 

[tony1928]

There are some battery operated small air pumps available that will come on automatically in a power failure I believe. Decent for smaller tanks just to keep the flow going so the water stays oxygenated. If you have a lot of tanks or big tanks, you can get a backup power source such as a generator or a backup battery unit.

Is there something a person should do to protect the fish if the power goes out for say 8 hours? Will this hurt the fish? Should I get a foot pump and hook up air-lines to all my tanks?

 

[Crazy_NDN]

well today the power went out again in my neighbourhood, just came back on. lol

 

[gwcana]

Power went out again and back on. It's the third time in two days. Does anyone know why there's so many outages?

 

[veng68]

I had 2 outages today.

One at 10:30 which lasted for 40 minutes and the second at 6:30 for about 20 minutes.

Strange thing is my sister who lives 1/2 a block away (on a different street) is not affected.

Cheers,
Vic

 

[effox]

An explosion is usually a transformer so it should be some what isolated I would think, as they can re-route the power.

A few months back that was the case for me any how, after the explosion it only took a few minutes to get back up and running.